president. i'll talk to the congressmen in a few minutes. listen to this. >> why didn't you subpoena the president? >> we negotiated from with him for over a year. what you eluded to lays out our expectations as a result of those negotiations. but finally, we were almost towards the entd of the investigation and had little success in pushing to get the intervoo ot president. we decided we didn't want to exercise the subpoena power. because of the necessity of expediting the end of the investigation. >> was that -- >> the expectation was if we did subpoena the president, he would fight it. and we would be in the middle of the investigation for a substantial period of time. >> so what that was was that was