>> toomey especially. the others make sense. illinois has been fighting for this since he came to congress. maine a big from champion of gay rights but tsunamsignals that he understands the politics of his running in will be 20 2016. he other though if a conservative, social conservative like pat toomey can the issue perhaps there are others who are seeing the polling and understand it is change. gwen: in the house if their heels are dug in does this make senate vote a show vote? >> to some 10th and it was as midterm cycle was beginning. the gay rights community loyal give a lot of money and to some it will be seen as a show vote. could be hope it tacked on to something like the defense bill and force it through the house but have generally said they are not for it. gwen: maybe there will be other votes. thank you all. we have to leave you for now but the conversation will continue line where we will be talking about what worked in the obama campaign that doesn't seem to be working in the obama white house. that is on our "washi

so i want to compliment the author, senator toomey. this is the way that we should operate in the senate. as many know, i have been advocating for rules changes since 1995 here. one thing i've always adhered to and that is the right of the minority to be able to offer germane amendments, relevant, germane amendments to a bill. and the author of this amendment has adhered to that. it is certainly relevant. it is certainly germane. that is why i compliment him for providing the way the senate should work here. so i compliment him for that. but the amendment i believe is ill-defined, would open the floodgates for all kinds of new court cases, it would disrupt businesses all over america. and so for that reason, i -- i -- i urge my colleagues to -- to oppose the amendment by the senator from pennsylvania. i yield the floor. mr. baldwin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from wisconsinment mr. baldwin: thank you, mr. president. the bill before us, the employment nondiscrimination act, contains a very carefully negotiated bip

under the previous order, the toomey amendment is now pending. ms. collins: madam president, i call up the reid amendment number 2020. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: ms. collins for mr. reid proposes amendment numbered 20 to amendment 2013. ms. collins: madam president, ask for the yeas and nays oned reid amendment. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. there is. the yeas and nays are so order. under the previous order, snat the senate resumes consideration of the motion to proceed of h.r. 3204. ms. collins: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: madam president, i would -- that was an extremely complicated parliamentary request, and perhaps it would be helpful to my colleagues if i gave a little bit of explanation of what just occurred. the good news, in my judgment, is that the senate has adopted by voice vote an amendment proposed by senators portman, ayotte, heller, hatch, and mccain. i voach appreciate their willing -- i very much appreciate their

pat toomey, a very conservative member from pennsylvania. this was pat toomey on the floor just moments ago. >> every individual is entitled to dignity, respect. a person's sexual orientation is irrelevant to their ability to be a good doctor or engineer or athlete or federal judge. >> and it is currently against federal law to discriminate in the workplace on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, add a fourth category now, sexual orientation if this was to pass the house. the speaker is making a familiar argument. he said it would lead to litigation and hurt small businesses. he says that are already laws on the book to address the very issue he is talk about. obviously this news in the senate is great news for the lbgt community, but it's an illustration of the divide within the republican parte. many republicans think it is time to get away from social issues, they are dragging the party down, dell. >> thank you, mike. >>> secretary of state john kerry says he is confident a date for syrian peace talks will be announced in the next few days.

but i have tried to get ahold of pat -- senator toomey, who is kind of the lead person on the steering committee and the one where most of the amendments would come from, most of the objections have come from, and i have said that if you'll pare that down from 50 to 25, then i'm sure that it would be reasonable for the democrats to have 25. that's a total of 50. it probably would end up being maybe 20 recorded votes. if you, our republicans, are willing to bring that number down and say, yes, we will go afforforward with this bill if n have 25, move it down from 50 to 25. if we refuse to do that i am going to go ahead and vote to support cloture and support our bill. ed on the otheon the other handr toomey and the rest of the republicans say no, we want to have all 50, and i look at this list and i see we have some members that have as many as nine -- and i don't think that's being totally reasonable. so if they say, no, we're not going to bring our number down to 25, then i'll going to support the bill. however, if they do agree to bring it down -- and i a already talked -- and i a al

me voted -- senator toomey voted for the bill. among the speakers at the news conference, senator tony baldwin, the first gay person elected to the senate, says they will not rain the measure to the floor for a vote. >> thank you. >> who are we missing? ok. do you want to reverse [indiscernible] ok, we are ready to start. go ahead. >> let the bells of freedom ring. to havevery exciting this powerful bipartisan vote and close to debate. but the senate has clearly spoken toend discrimination in the workplace. i thank the leadership, senator reed, for free and for this bill to the floor to make sure this would happen. senator harkin, who guided the committee through several markups, several hearings and then a markup for a terrific bipartisan team hearing tammy baldwin brought so much energy and momentum and coming to us from the house with her experience and her story. senato senator kirk as the chief cosponsor who helped connect his colleagues. and in 2009-2010, the chief cosponsor continued working on this day in and day out. it i

senator toomey is going have another religion-related amendment. it's going broaden the number of groups that qualify under the religious exemption. senator merkley, who is kind of the bellwether for -- the chief sponsor said last night he supports the proposal for ayotte and portman, not so sure about toomey. so that's the fate of that legislation is -- the fate of that measure is still unclear. they will get votes on both of them. >> will the senate vote on the bill before thanking giving? >> that's the plan. majority leader harry reid said we're going get it done. please, he said the senators he doesn't believe senators need use all the time left on the clock for debate on this bill. it's set to, i mean, after you vote on the couple of amendments it's set to pass in the coming days. we don't know exactly when. but the senate has a lot of other agenda itemmings to coas welt. so i think harry reid wants to move along on endata and get out of the way. >> you wrote about some of the rather bleak prospect in the house and tweeted yesterday about sena

. >> you believe -- take for instance, the proposed toomey -- the portman amendment, and the toomey amendment, you think they should be allowed to do that, to say we don't want to hire gay people? >> we were not supporters of the toomey amendment for the fact that we believe that the religious protections that exist right now in the bill are the cleanest and they're also the strongest. the religious protections extend the same exemptions that exist for any religious organization covered under title seven of the civil rights act to any religious organization that would be applicable to the employment nondiscrimination act. we have 50 years of case law that backs up the religious exemptions. there is precedent there. if we passed toomty amendment, it would have created actually more of a gray area, would have actually created more litigation. for that reason, we were not supporters. >> jonathan capehart. you mentioned republican millennials a second ago. and it made me think of the gop autopsy that we were talking about in the previous block where, you know, quite a bit of ink was paid to the f

not so sure about toomey's. the fate of that legislation is, the fate of that measure still unclear, but they will get votes on both of them. >> will the senate vote on this bill before thanks giveing? >> that's the plan. senate majority leader harry reid said we're going to get this done. please, he said, the senators, he doesn't believe senators need to use all the time that's left on the clock for debate on this bill. it is set to, i mean after you vote on these couple amendment votes, it is set to pass in the coming days. we don't know exactly when. but the senate also has a lot of other agenda items to do as well. i think harry reid wants to move along and get that out of the way and do something else. >> you wrote about some of the rather bleak prospects in the house. you tweeted yesterday about senator harken saying that he wants the house democrats to circulate a discharge petition on the in the house. what does that mean? >> discharge petition, if you get 218 signatures on that, it pretty much force as

why are people like pat toomey and kelly ayotte and rob portman and mark kirk and these other republicans able to come along when the rest of their colleagues on the republican side aren't? >> one of the real concerns was religious exemption, and we anchored it in title vii of the civil rights act, and that's answered a lot of the concerns that they had about balancing religious organizations and this issue of employment discrimination. by taking the standard of the civil rights act, that helped a lot. the only thing they were really worried about were lawsuits, and by looking at those 21 states you referred to and their record, we find that lawsuits do not materialize in surprising numbers or cause a real problem for business, and thus, businesses are very much on board with nondiscrimination. so, those have been two key factors in bringing this together. >> what do you make of the argument from the house leadership that they are not going to allow a vote on this on their side of capitol hill because they believe it's legally unnecessary? they believe it already is illegal to fire someon

. >> so there's fossil, we like that name, there's toomey, which is a made up name, and warby parker which is a made up name. >> warby parker comes from two early jack kerouac characters. now, naming a company has to be the hardest thing on the planet. so my co-founders and i went through 2,000 different names and we kept coming back to literary heroes and my co-founder -- >> what was rejected? moby dick. >> i think there was moxly and it's just like -- there were some bad ones. but dave had wandered into a new york public library exhibit on kerouac, and they had two characters that had never been published before, warby pepper and zag parker. so combine the two, we were at wharton at the time and getting our mbas. we asked 100 of our friends, and they loved it. but of course, being finance people, there were a couple that said warburg pincus. >> well, they're wearing tim geithner glasses there. how does mickey drexler find out about warby parker? >> we were actually introduced to him by somebody that works for him. and then we just started having lunch, sort of hit it off, i think h

why are people like pat toomey and kelly ayotte and rob portman and mark kirk and these other republicans able to come along when the rest of their colleagues on the republican side aren't? >> one of the real concerns was religious exemption, and we anchored it in title vii of the civil rights act, and that's answered a lot of the concerns that they had about balancing religious organizations and this issue of employment discrimination. by taking the standard of the civil rights act, that helped a lot. the only thing they were really worried about were lawsuits, and by looking at those 21 states you referred to and their record, we find that lawsuits do not materialize in surprising numbers or cause a real problem for business, and thus, businesses are very much on board with nondiscrimination. so, those have been two key factors in bringing this together. >> what do you make of the argument from the house leadership that they are not going to allow a vote on this on their side of capitol hill because they believe it's legally unnecessary? they believe it already is illegal to fire someon

. >> so there's fossil, we like that name, there's toomey, and warby parker which is a made up name. >> comes from two early characters. now, naming a company has to be the hardest thing on the planet. so my co-founders and i went through 2,000 different names and we kept coming back to literary heroes and my co-founder -- >> what was rejected? >> moby dick. >> i think there was moxly and it's just like -- there were some bad ones. but dave had wandered into new york public library exhibit and they had two characters that had never been published before warby pepper and zag parker. so combine the two, we were at wharton at the time and getting our mbas. we asked 100 of our friends and they loved it. but of course, being finance people, there were a couple that said warburg pincus. >> well, they're wearing tim geithner glasses there. how does mickey drexler find out about warby parker? >> we were introduced to him by somebody that works for him. and then we just started having lunch, sort of hit it off, i think he was excited what we were doing, especially combining sort of selling on

. >> senator toomey. >> thank you. i want to get back to some of the issues senator corker was raising regarding monetary policy. i think it's important to stress, i know you're well aware of these, but the adverse consequences that we're already experiencing from directly the result of the extraordinary monetary policy is problematic, i think. artificially suppressed cost of funding, it contributes to arguably fiscal imbalances. we are punishing middle class savers for years people who chose to forego consumption because they decided to save and have a little bit of income in their retirement. now they have no income because they earn nothing on their savings, but they watch as it gradually gets eroded even by a low level of inflation when they have no income from it. we have exacerbated the problems of underfunded pension plans. we've got distortions in financial markets. these are all the things that have been and continue to occur, but what worries me even more is the point senator corker was getting to, i think, w

today the american diplomat who was in gary toomey groups including families who've lost loved ones and sunday the market. i did alright we don't think that. we need to get stuff. about all those few summer ice the reactions of victims' families from all sites. the ulster unionist party was closer to the court friday negotiations in nineteen ninety eight the dup had left the table the reaction of the current uup leader to jonathan's comments was typical of what's being said the cost of political spectrum. when i do agree with the attorney general of the verses that we have yet to come up with a mechanism for dealing with the cost which eloise said the demand for them will want them in full which would have to do so in a way we don't leave victims and survivors eyeing ignoring the rights as well as the dates and would only for disregarding the rules often fills his heart is broken off. as a bottom line they read tonight and in the process. the key success he could see difficulties with the suggestion put forward by the north's attorney general mr larkins proposal to end prosecutions for

washington gridlock republicans in the senate will still get to block popular legislation like the manchin toomey gun bill that they filibustered back in april and the cap and trade bill that they filibustered back in two thousand and ten and of course if the senate does manage to pass a bill over republican filibuster threat that bill still has to go through the house where the republican majority serves as a de facto filibuster threat of its own we're seeing that right now with the senate's immigration bill which passed five months ago in june but which john boehner has yet to call a vote on it's easy to explain away washington gridlock with buzzwords like partisanship but the roots of dysfunction are a lot deeper than just normal my team your team politics america is really two different countries one red conservative republican country and one blue progressive democratic country these two different countries share very different values and they're moving farther and farther apart every day for example while deep blue vermont is getting ready to unveil its single payer health care system deep

washington gridlock republicans in the senate will still get to block popular legislation like the manchin toomey gun bill that they filibustered back in april and the cap and trade bill that they filibustered back in two thousand and ten and of course if the senate does manage to pass a bill over republican filibuster threat that bill still has to go through the house where the republican majority serves as a de facto filibuster threat of its own. we're seeing that right now with the senate's immigration bill which passed five months ago in june but which john boehner has yet to call a vote on it's easy to explain away washington gridlock with buzzwords like partisanship but the roots of dysfunction are a lot deeper than just normal my team your team politics america is really two different countries one red conservative republican country and one blue progressive democratic country these two different countries share very different values and they're moving farther and farther apart every day for example while deep blue vermont is getting ready to unveil its single payer health care system deep

tomorrow we will take a vote on senator toomey's amendment and on cloture and final passage. there may not be time as we're wrapping up the work on this bill for me to pay tribute to some very valuable individuals who worked very hard on this bill, and that is the members of the staff on both sides. and i want to particularly commend three members of my staff: john kaine, katie brown, and betsy mcdonald who have literally worked night and day to try to work out amendments, procedure, to work with a wide variety of staff on both sides of the aisle. our staff are often the unsung heroes of this institution. and in this case, i was receiving e-mails from my staff last night at 1:46 a.m., giving me the latest. and i just want to publicly thank them and the floor staff on both sides and the help committee staff, everyone who was involved, but particularly the three members of my staff: john, katie and betsy who literally have devoted countless hours to this bill. and i know they will be very happy when we reach final passage tomorrow. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor an

under the theory that, as senator toomey said, consumers will pay for those increasing costs. and we -- i assume that you would confirm that analysis is necessary to avoid increasing the costs so that consumers don't, while your efforts may be to eliminate discrimination, if fewer consumers can borrow money to purchase a car, we've done a lot of damage to consumers and to the economy. >> i think that's a fair point. it's the same point that we ran up against as we wrote our mortgage rules. you want to impose the right protections, make sure people are treated fairly and particularly want to make sure that they're treated in a nondiscriminatory basis. but we don't want to dry up access to credit. i will say, and i think it's notable. people have been reacting to our fair lending bull tietin on autolending going back as far as the spring and concerned about what the impact may be, the autolending market is red hot right now. we're selling more cars than we have in a number offiers. i believe that will continue. we cheer that on at the consumer bureau. for a lot of people, autos

why not give it to pat toomey and marco elliott and rand paul. there's a new flock of conservatives. why not give them a chance to get things done. but they're being labeled the establishment now too. and why should they pay -- i agree, ten years ago, republicans did some bad things. they can move past that. >> the votes. just by comparison. the female vote for chris christie, 57% compared to the female opponent who garnered 42% of the vote in that state. >> absolutely. chris christie has a great, great night. and i think a couple of things to learn there is, one, i think is clearly when you can be a conservative. chris christie is a conservative. he defunded planned parenthood in new jersey. yet, the priority is helping people in new jersey. standing up against washington, d.c. helping them to overcome the hurricane. you can be a hard core conservative but give the sense that you care about getting things done and standing up for your voters. that's the big key. one got the sense in virginia that cucinelli is more interested in ending ideas, end

under the theory that, as senator toomey said, consumers will pay for those increasing costs. and we -- i assume that you would confirm that analysis is necessary to avoid increasing the costs so that consumers don't, while your efforts may be to eliminate discrimination, if fewer consumers can borrow money to purchase a car, we've done a lot of damage to consumers and to the economy. >> i think that's a fair point. it's the same point that we ran up against as we wrote our mortgage rules. you want to impose the right protections, make sure people are treated fairly and particularly want to make sure that they're treated in a nondiscriminatory basis. but we don't want to dry up access to credit. i will say, and i think it's notable. people have been reacting to our fair lending bull tietin on autolending going back as far as the spring and concerned about what the impact may be, the autolending market is red hot right now. we're selling more cars than we have in a number offiers. i believe that will continue. we cheer that on at the consumer bureau. for a lot of people, autos

none of this, senator toomey is helping the president. he has his rlowest approval ratings ever. now in the 30s. his disapproval rate is worse at 53%. let me ask about your colleagues. you have all the blue state democrats, mary landrieu, mark pryor. red states up for re-election 2014. many on record saying the following. >> those individuals who like the coverage they already have will be able to keep their current plan. this is a very accurate description of the bill. >> many people say i like my health insurance now, senator. i don't want to change. i don't want the to go into med care or medicaid. i like what i have. would you please leave me alope? and the answer is, yes, we warrantee i-- guarantee it. >> we are working on protecting people's choice of doctors, choice of hospitals, choice of insurance plan. if you like what you have today, that will be what you have when this legislation is passed. >> i won't support a health care reform plan that will take away health care you have now or a health care plan you like. >> are any of your democratic colleagues speaking out aga

and a gun measure where pat toomey himself said that the background check failed because members were not going to vote for something that the president was for. it tells you we've gone beyond the usual kinds of differences that you report about so well to something else. >> yeah, i think it's going to be something as simple as this. you used to fight because you disagreed on things. that's why you had fights. because on issues of taxation or fiscal policy or foreign policy. what you did with how we dealt with central america and nicaragua. today they disagree because they fight. because they're fighting with each other, they have to disagree on every single thing. it's anything that's got obama's jersey on it has to be slain. . >> and when we did the paperback version of the book just out, which we could've titled it's even worse than it was from when the book originally came out. i had a little bit of hope after the 2012 election when the permanent campaign might die down a little bit that it would get better. but it hasn't. but it's gotten worse than it was. and it really is an att

mike lee and mike toomey will j >>> what do you think about this oregon middle school football coach fired for planning a team party at hooters much the athletic director and mg parents complaining that hooters is not an appropriate place to take young middle school boys. the middle school coach refusing to move the party insisting hooters is a family restaurant. so the coach got fired. but that is not stopping the middle school football team party. the coach is still going to throw that party. get, this hooter says it will now pick up a tab and make a donation to the booster club. you be the judge. would you fire the coach for planning a party at hooters or would you agree hooters is just another family restaurant vote at gretawire.com. coming up are the democrats panicking. a meeting they did not want you to know about >> okay. let's go off the record just for main. i'm all for security and poor privacy. but are we kidding ourselves? when is the last time you gave a credit card number to a restaurant or online store and how about your social security number? when was the last time

right now the senate is holding a vote or about to hold a vote on the toomey amendment which will broaden carveouts to corporations who might not feel okay with lgtb employees and just not want to abide by this nonstrip nation act. what do you see for the future of this bill? does it stand any hope in the house. >> the hope amongert spokers of the bill is that by including these kind of exemptions they can bring enough republicans in the senate they can have a big vogt vote and bring parish to the speaker. unequivocal speaker has said will not support the bill, encourage lawsuits, move it further to the right to placate him. it will be difficult for supporters of the bill to get republicans to go for it at this point. >> steve, what john said the speaker thinks it's going to increase frivolous legislation. they have done studies where there are discrimination in place and only 7% of all lawsuits have to do with sexual orientation discrimination. that seems like a smoke screen for not wanting to work on this because it will make certain parts of the conference, radical conservative members

pat toomey, and jeff flake from arizona as well. there are federal laws that ban scrim face from any number of people in our society, you can't based on faith, gender, race, ethnicity, age or disability, but you could, and you can discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. you mentioned the fact that the house of representatives, speaker, john boehner, does not favor this legislation. says that it would hurt small businesses because there would be an increase in litigation that would cause small businesses to have to defend themselves in court. the white house dismisses that excuse. the white house's reaction and in the senate, here's what he had to stay. >> some of the objection that's i've heard from members of the house are reminiscent of objections of other opponents of other civil rights legislation put forward. they were wrong then and they're wrong now. this is the right thing to do. it's the wrong thing to do because we're all equal. -- right thing to do. >> again, the party of social conservatives and members of congr

a couple of other yes, rob portman, pat toomey, john mccain, have you been in contact with these senators? are they giving you any senators? do you expect this to pass? >> we've been working hard at the human rights campaign and coalition for months and months to show elected officials in washington this is a no-brainer for american public. the american public supports this with more than 70% of the vote. if you look at the polling in 50 states, a majority of support in all 50 states, missouri the lowest at 62% support. incredible bipartisan support. unlike any other issue, i don't think you can find another issue that has such incredible bipartisan support. it's such a common sense american value. judge people based on their work performance not on who they are, how they are born. >> you know having bipartisan support doesn't necessarily mean it's going to make its way through congress, particularly the house, which will be a tougher slowing for you. read awe statement from john boehner's office today. the the speaker believes this legislation will increase frivolous litigation and cost

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. >> reporter: the bill does exempt religious institutions, but republican pat toomey of pennsylvania lost a bid to expand the number of groups that would qualify. the question now is whether enda will make it to the house floor. speaker john boehner's office issued a statement this week saying again he believes theç bill is unnecessary and would subject businesses to frivolous lawsuits. >> ifill: reports of sexual assaults in the military surged nearly 50% last fiscal year. the pentagon said today the armed forces had more than 3,500 complaints, up from about 2,400 the previous year. officials said they can't tell if the spike signifies an actual increase in sexual assaults or that more people are reporting them, or both. twitter went public today and turned out to be a hit. the stock closed its first day of trading at just under $45 a share, more than 70% above the initial price set by the social media giant. we'll have more on that later in the program. the twitter debut couldn't stop a sell-off on wall street. it started after third quarter growth came in nearly a full point bet

mike lee and mike toomey will join sean 10 p.m. on hannity. >>> what do you think about this oregon middle school football coach fired for planning a team party at hooters much the athletic director and mg parents complaining that hooters is not an appropriate place to take young middle school boys. the middle school coach refusing to move the party insisting hooters is a family restaurant. so the coach got fired. but that is not stopping the middle school football team party. the coach is still going to throw that party. get, this hooter says it will now pick up a tab and make a donation to the booster club. you be the judge. would you fire the coach for planning a party at hooters or would you agree hooters is just another family restaurant vote at gretawire.com. coming up are the democrats panicking. a meeting they did not want you to know about today. that's next. with nestle toll house morsels. you can heal a broken heart with a bundt cake. make a monday mornin' feel like a friday afternoon with some nestle toll house morsels.

. >> when you go back to april for the manchin toomey bill, that polls at 92% across the nation. it averaged state to sate a bit. pulled at 78% for nra members. congress couldn't pass it. because they're worried about their next election. >> final question. i am a big fan of your wife's. i wonder if you can tell us how she's doing. it's great to see her out with you, being active. honored by "glamour" magazine. how is she doing? >> gabby is doing great. the "glamour" woman of the year awards that evening was -- was really nice. she got up on stage and gave a great speech. and she continues to work very hard on her own recovery. she works hard on this issue, our organization, americans for responsible solutions. but, you know, she's at it all the time with speech therapy and physical therapy. and, you know, always, you know, looking for the next thing that could possibly help her. i'm so inspired by her. just when she was a member of congress, you know, i realized that she was, you know, tough and a hard worker. >> sure. >> but i really had no idea until, you know, after what happ

. >> reporter: the bill does exempt religious institutions, but republican pat toomey of pennsylvania lost a bid to expand the number of groups that would qualify. the question now is whether enda will make it to the house floor. speaker john boehner's office issued a statement this week saying again he believes the bill is unnecessary and would subject businesses to frivolous lawsuits. >> ifill: reports of sexual assaults in the military surged nearly 50% last fiscal year. the pentagon said today the armed forces had more than 3,500 complaints, up from about 2,400 the previous year. officials said they can't tell if the spike signifies an actual increase in sexual assaults or that more people are reporting them, or both. twitter went public today and turned out to be a hit. the stock closed its first day of trading at just under $45 a share, more than 70% above the initial price set by the social media giant. we'll have more on that later in the program. the twitter debut couldn't stop a sell-off on wall street. it started after third quarter growth came in nearly a full point better

but kenny, senator pat toomey said what happens when the morphine drip runs out. we keep talking about new all-time highs. but we also keep talking about a potential pullback. how do you spot that? >> that's the problem because i don't think anyone was expecting any pullback, so the market continues to march to new highs and will continue to do so. i think you said it yesterday. the market rally add head of her testimony today. it's rallying again today based on everything she said. i think the fear is when -- it's not so much when but how will they be able to do it unless this economy all of a sudden, you know, all the macro data starts to get so good quickly. that's the only thing that's going to carry us out. >> of course, we have touch points in december and we'll be watching for as well, bob. >> slightly different -- the mo mo monotonic tones of her voice. >> wipe some of the sand out of your eyes, bob. >> i don't want to say that exactly, but it was -- i expected a little more aggressive questioning. >> right. >> and they asked the right questions. it it was