do you know if any of those were feeney or freddie mortgages? >> i don't know but i know this has been an important issue mrs. petraeus this efp and the department of defense and freddie and fannie have provided updated clarity and communication to their servicers regarding that, and their standards actually were already quite satisfactory. the cftc and the defense department but it does appear there was confusion on this point and we acted to get improved communication i don't know whether they want to comment more on that. >> the light is red but mr. demarco, you said that we would shortly be hearing more on the subject of principal modification and you're own analysis are you going to be providing your study to the public and if so, when? >> why have we not done it already? >> i certainly explained this numerous times in the committee hearings, and you've provided written communication before it took quite a of congress on it. including you i got a much more detailed request and we are evaluating that. it's quite a number of components, and w

john feeney has this as a columnist as your day job he wants to know please ask mr. brooks his views on the future of newspapers? >> guest: i'm feeling a little better these days. if you asked me two years ago it's in the whaling industry and we're dying off. but i would say a couple things. one thing we have more readers than ever before. second, i think there's been a flight to equality. when the blogs first started coming out, everybody was flocking to the blogs and i do too. i spend a lot of time reading blogs but after a while they want people sort of who have done the work so that they know what they're talking about. i spent a lot of time interviewing politicians. and it's not 'cause they tell me stuff particularly. i don't get breaking new insights on a secret world and i know it's not true and i'll read an intelligent blogger who's writing about what so-and-so is writing and i interviewed so-and-so and i know what they're thinking. and it's not that. this is a plausible theory but it doesn't have to be real. and so when i'm writing something based on intervi