my name is eric williams. in the stand of the governor shot down a 46 million in the next few years, how convenient it is for the mayor to conveniently blamed the operators. unacceptable. there are so many issues that the mta is not making public in terms of what they are supposed to be going off -- going after, major funds. the average operator pays up to $900 on medical every month. yet they find it convenient for transit operators to blame the issues of muni. that one of the operators to carry the $16.9 million shortfall. what part of that are the operators? the operators of the union have been silent on a bunch of the issues were too long. we are no longer going to be silent. we have families out there. we are just like you. we are just like you, we want our families to have the best also. hitting the writers against the operators were trying to earn a decent wage is wall. when we talk about the budget, make sure that the agency is giving you the facts. what about all of the things they're not doing in pro

for steele's immediate resignation, william crystal calling the sentiments an affront to the honor of the republican pearlt and the commitment to the soldiers and eric erickson wrote steele has lost all moral authority to lead the g.o.p. there's more in the papers here, so michael steele comes back through a spokesman and quickly issued a statement clarifying the chairman supports the troops and steele himself soon followed. saying that, quote for the sake of the security of the free world our country must give our troops the support necessary to win this war. and it's been pointed out the democrats are upset with him as well today but we're asking you this question based on some of the write-ups over the last 24 hours should michael steele of the r.n.c. rezinche these particular remarks on afghanistan? first of all baltimore, mark, a democrat. good morning. good morning, mark. let's try -- caller: hello? host: is this mark? caller: this is mark. host: glad you made it on. go ahead. caller: sorry about that. i was listening to chairman steele's comments yesterday, and my question is, you know, we have been in afghanistan for eight years, president g