he was of single-minded focus every morning for the next seven years. president bush, it was still september of 2001. single-minded focus. thinking back to the independent counsel experience in august of 1998. >> let -- >> i proposed some ideas for congress to consider. the bottom line point, they were ideas for congress to consider. they were not my constitutional views. if a case came up where someone was trying to say, this is a constitutional principle, i would have a completely open mind on that. i've never taken a position on the constitution on that question. i've only put out proposals for you all to study, to think about the balance of a president fighting a war, leading a war, and a president subject to, say, ordinary civil lawsuits, as in the clinton versus jones case. >> let me ask you, you're becoming more good and learning a filibuster. let me ask this question