mickey maynard, former bureau chief for "the new york times," joins us this morning.ave you. >> hey, carl. the thrill of live television. >> yes. we make it work every day. your thoughts on not just her address to the troops and the press but the point that the report itself is still i guess unavailable for a journalist to read. right? >> right. so general letters had a town hall with employees and a press conference with reporters and has an analyst meeting at 1:00 and nobody's actually seen the valukas report. so we've been told that it includes 90 arias for general motors to improve. we've been told by gm that they fired 15 people. but no reporters or analysts have been able to get inside that report and there's a lot of unanswered questions. >> mickey, the big headline of course that's emerged in the last couple days is the fact that regardless of the details of this report on the whole it basically insulates the top executives from any sort of awareness of what was actually going "on the money" the engineering side during the course of some of these recalls and s