answers yet. but at the same time, he deserves fairness in the media and he deserves fairness in the prosecutorial inquiry and we'll see where this story goes. we don't know the answers yet. it does not make people in the media happy to say we don't -- do not know the answers yet. we ought to be saying that a lot more in our coverage of all kinds of things. >> one of the most honest things we can say is that we don't know. >> exactly. come on. we don't have crystal balls and we also don't do enough reporting. so this is a story -- there has been good reporting on the story by the local newspapers, weeklies as well as dailies in northern new jersey and that actually is what rachel maddow has been basing a lot of her commentary on the stories produced by local media. >> one thing you can tell, what are the signs that a scandal is something a politician can't recover from?