why shouldn't we be talking about this? your thoughts? >> well, he wasn't, he wasn't the head of fannie mae, but he was a senior vice-president and what he did essentially was, he lobbied for less strict control, he is very much a political player as opposed to a national security player and interestingly, when the handicapping was going on, for who was going to replace rahm emanuel as chief of staff, the most highly political job, tom donlan was at the top of that police. >> what's interesting about the whole process, the fact he's now at the helm of the national security team, he had managed to avoid senate confirmation and many people, critics arguing if he in fact had to go through senate confirmation, all of this fannie mae stuff would have been laid out on the table and likely he would not have been