that auditing the fed will introduce interference into the decision-making. host: we played a clip on ben bernanke was talking about this -- she seemed to indicate that transparency, he hoped, would be part of that legacy. did he address the effort to audit the fed yesterday? he has made the fed far more transparent than it ever was. it is on the cusp of its centennial. the federalnce reserve act was signed by president wilson. the fed has always operated with a fair amount of mystery. sinceen bernanke has done 2006 is to remove a lot of that mystery. that is where he comes in as being clear spoken. on the entire ran notion that the fed should operate with mystery around it, confusion to keep the coffers open. be asrnanke has tried to clear as possible about what the fed is doing and he has done that to a large extent. interference in the independent monetary policy of the federal reserve. there are good reasons for that. whenever you see in other politics the mixing of and monetary policy, the outcome is generally not good. but the caller brought up interesting points about the shortcomi