kudos to jon. we would not be talking now if jon stewart read a prepared statement yesterday. jon would have read from a piece of paper like everybody else and everybody else who testified did a great job. >> they did. >> i'm not a cryer. i don't cry. yesterday, america saw me cry a lot. i don't cry well. i'm pretty ugly on camera. >> you're a very handsome man. listen -- >> that was serious. louse alvarez is a dear friend of mine. he's going to die in the near future and i have to go to another wake. i have been to over 180 funerals. this is painful. this is sad. i'm tired of listening to excuses of why these men and women uniform and nonuniform, especially the children of lower manhattan. there were 12 schools -- >> can i ask you, john, what's the hold-up? who is standing in the way of