i don't have a agent or a mager. the network came upith this idea i like to work.a handshake and wll do it. tavis: how close were you to leaving nbc? >> was gone. i walet go from "e tonight show ok fine. then you sit down for a while and other people express interest. you go oh, ok. c is likeho issking my ex-wifout? wait a minut ok. how about this idea? yeah, fine. we want you back? u want me bac you wanted me to leave whatever y want. i like to tell jok. you tell me whereo stand. it is really that simpl tas: when i was goi through -- i was going through a difficult period in my career and y and i were sitting there talkg one day and youave me me gat advice and it had to do with acting like you have some class. just be clay because even if yo lose you'll still have class. you gave me some great advice. you make jokesll the time but i wonder how you dealt with what many perceiv as the insult of nbc aing you to step down? >> well i mean, you're in a very insulting busess. [laughter] why are yo surprised? mean, it is not like, i always tell guys about show business. d

was the mager as well? i am not sure. he is a wonderful reporter, a report's reporter. he wrotehe stoes we all wi we had written and the founder of new england cable news. which by the way is the oldest regional cable news and the country. when he started that people said are you nuts? fifth of course, it was a model for everything else. it is a web site dedicated entirely t foreign news and international. but what makes it interesting is they have correspondents based in all of the countries that are practicing journalist, nojust said ascend journalism. it ireally exciting. it made its debut in january so it is still new but so exciting. my son was worng on some of eir blogs. and i have a cou@le of students that have gone to enter wit them it is an exciting moment. it eliminates the cost of sending correspondence to a country because they are already there. it also eliminates the response of nature, a writer revolution or a coup takes place today the ecution and nigeria, you have to send somebody there, they are there they already kno the context and something about th

so then theight before our thanks giving -- thanksgiving around wednesday we see a mager, a manager and a former manager and let us know to turn off all th lights in can company. so when this happened, it was more weird to us, so we spend a couple hours outside of the company. and then ten minutes a former supervisor, like five former supervisors appear in the company and a former driver which is from our union, but he was with the company. he appeared, wasn't laid off. and a couple guys from the company. and they started moving stuff in a rental truck. it was weird because the company has their own drivers, so how they going to represent a truc-- rent a truck? we found out next day it was office equipment. so it was me on saturday early in the morning i bring my wife to work. she was working on right here by western and lake in the currency exchange around 6:00, 6:30. so i go to the company with my little kid, oscar, 7 years old, and we spent from 6:00, 6:30 in the parking lot until 1:00. and then i go to eat something because it was too late. we didn't eat breakfast, we was spending t

show us it's oka" >> smith: doug hotkiss, the port's mager for the malarky site, ran tests and what heveryone. sowhat was the hottest spot you fod? how hi was it? the hottest spot for pcbs w righin this area here, and it was about 9,000 pas per miion. >> smith: 9,00 anthe federal limit is 25. i mean, this was a really hot spot! >> yeah, and luckily, it was unr asphalt, but it was still something thateven under asphalt, you couldn't justeave there. >> smi: so hotchkiss drafted a plan to clean up malar. but it backfired. >> we uld be cleaning up to 25 parts pemillion, which was the cleanup level that... at epa had accepted befe. >> smith: and how did e community take tt? how'd they react? >> they were... th were not ppy with it. they didn't find it acceptab. >>th: in fact, south park was up in arms, sisting on cleanup to the residenti standard of e part per million. >> ah, duwamh river clean-up coalion, residents from south park, started lling up port commissioners anexplaininghe problem to tm. and they got in vans and bus and went down where e port commission was meeting, d one after a

do something like is tone at the top and communication and involved supervision, supervisors and magers, who recognize the situations where perhaps a more junior person may be susceptible to that kind of influence and that supervisor intervenes and closely monitors to make sure that's not happening. >> okay. good. anyone want to add anything because if not, we'll close the hearing and thank you for your time. but any -- you have any more comments, mr. markopolos? >> no, i do not, thank you, senator. >> any good metaphors? >> no, thank you. [laughter] >> mr. khuzami or walsh, any commts? you're not big on the metaphors. >> too many metaphors. >> i like metaphors as people know. thank all of you for coming. >> thank you. >> and the hearing's closed. [inaudible conversations] >> the u.s. senate gaveling in now for an hour of general speeches. at 10:30 am eastern senators will observe a moment of silence in memory of those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks eight years ago. following that they'll resume debate on the fiscal year 2010 transportation and housing spending bill. the senate'

in may 2003 the sec received a third complaint from respected hedge fund mager identifying numerous concerns of madoff's strategy and reported returns. it questioned whether madoff was trading options in the volume that he claimed and noted madoff's strategy and purported returns had no correlation to the overall equity markets in over 10 years. according to an sec manager, the complaint laid out issues that we indish shah of a ponzi scheme. the fourth complaint was a certificates of internal emails of another registrant that the sec discovered in april 2004. the emails described the red flags that employees identified while performing due diligence using widely available information. these red flags including madoff's unusually fills for equi trades, his misrepresentation of his option trading, his unusually consistent nonvolatileepurns over several years. one of the internal emails provided a clear step-by-step analysis of why madoff must be misrepresenting his trading. examiners who initially discovered the emails viewed them as to suspicion whether madoff is trading at all. the sec recei