talked to members years ago about this type of thing. this type of exchange and received a lot of pushback on it including pushback from within their administration. so the burden is really on the president to show that he could not simply notify congress. but at the end of the day, the greatest problem that we're facing is not this one violation but rather a myriad of these violations. the president, as you know, went to congress and said he was prepared to go it alone. there's no litany of federal laws that he's said he will not enforce or he's significantly changed through executive orders and that's created a real problem within our system. this emerging, almost uber presidency, where he acts alone and congress becomes increasingly irrelevant. >> as you said in terms of guantanamo at a minimum, this is something that president bush did as well at length over the course of his administration.