i'm going to start with chris fasano. how you found out that you had lost your job, and tell me what your job was first. what did you actually what were you doing? >> yeah. so i was an enforcement attorney with the consumer financial protection bureau. so we would enforce consumer laws. we would prevent financial companies from taking advantage of ordinary americans. and i found out that i was fired last tuesday. i received an email at around 830 at night to my personal email. that email went out to about 70 of my colleagues, and it said that i was my performance was not up to standards for the consumer financial protection bureau, but it was the same email that everyone else got. and in fact, it didn't have my name in it. it was a just said to an employee, first name, last name. >> so they referred to you as first name, last name. no specific, but they're saying performance, but they didn't specify it to you. >> that's right. and now when we download this letter, that's when populated with all of our information. but i t