gentleman, great to have you with us tonight. richard, you first. >> yep. >> what is his afternoon out of this mess? out of this maze? you do five interviews to try to clear things, it only made things worse, and they're having a hard time explaining any of this. what's the easy avenue? >> the easy answer is to release the tax returns, but actually there's a step or five before that. which is first of all, decide which avenue you're going to take. one of the problems mitt romney has right now is indecision. it's that his story keeps on change. first of all they said, well, you know, everyone else has done this the, that's not true. then you end up talking about john kerry's wife, which is ridiculous. you say, the obama people will never be satisfied. they've said all of these things over the last couple of days and it's a bit like his response on the bain question. the story keeps on changing. if you think back what happened to john kerry, the swift boat attacks were terrible, but the indecision you're broadcasting about your own character as a