When politicians visit RP, do they just submit prepared answers to our questions or engage in a back and forth discussion?

But my question pertains to did he get the questions ahead of time, come into the RP office, and simply spend his time copy and pasting his answers into the thread, or was he actually there reading responses to his answers and reacting to them. If it is the former only, then there really isn't much point to anyone planning on being on the site at the designated time. It could as easily been done by the senator from anywhere. When you bill someone as being here to answer your questions, it sort of comes across as an interactive process.

I haven't double checked every question, so maybe he did that with some members. But all the ones I saw just had a single post with his answer and no interaction.