. >>> larry culp marking six weeks on the job as ge's ceo with an exclusive interview with our david faber. listen to what he said about the decision to reduce the dividend on general electric shares >> step back from all of that and given the way the stocks traded, i think we make the same decisions today. those are the right decisions to make sure that the company is facing forward and dealing with the fact that we do have a lot of leverage. i think we all agree in that regard, but we have a number of options to bring that leverage down over time, and the company is very committed to doing that. whether it's an equity analyst, whether it's the rating agencies, witness the downgrades, or what we said ourselves, we need to bring the leverage down, and i think we've got plenty of opportunities through asset sales to do that in the last six weeks, it's my sixth, marks six weeks on the job, i've heard from lots of people across our markets, people who have interest in ge assets, and i think that's confirmation that we have quality franchises and frankly that we have options two weeks ago, fol