to the point peter made and the point you're hearing from a lot of republicans right now is, we told you this would eventually come back and bite you. this is biting right now, and you need to figure out how to respond, and right now they haven't figured it out. >> someone with a fafact-findin experience. >> the democrats could ask for the hearing to be stayed so they could look at the facts. there is no pending investigation here, and i don't know if there is a history of the state legislature investigating these kinds of cases. so it does put the democrats in a little bit of a trickier situation. all of these cases are so fact-based, and so they're going to have to come up with something, and maybe the virginia democratic party itself is going to have to investigate. >> i appreciate your coming in. a big speech from the former starbuck's ceo. he's flirting running for president as an independent. do the american people want him