today, just six months after that congressman skalise finds himself embroiled in controversy because of a speech he gave in 2002 when he was a state legislator. joining me now, fred hill. let's start with the bottom line. we have all of these reports out there that the republican leaders in the house, boef skalise, i believe, are monitoring the situation closely. what are we looking for next here in this story? >> i think they're trying to figure out what the reaction is in themedia. right you will no skalise has come out and did this interview with a local new orleans newspaper. they want to see if that aing which youly moves the needle at all. skalise, his defence here is that he went and did this speech and that this speech was more just about boilerplate issues, about posing a tax hiet e hike.