to him and let him talk for a while about his priorities, where he sees the current landscape and what -- how he's going to prioritize over the next coming months an years and then he and i will engage in conversation and then if you have questions, please just go ahead and write those down, i'll save some time at the end so you all can participate as well. michael: thank you. i'll try not to spend too great a length of time pontificating. but let me maybe set some context. isn't a new job. -- is a new job. it has existed at significantly lower levels in the organization before but not since the goldwater-nichols act of 1988 which created a tndyambings l as an entity, not since then has occupied ganization