millikin, the head of zbchgm's l department about there issue.e was an article in the "new york times" which described the course of action during the ignition switch situation in which numerous occasions gm told the agency that they were not going to answer questions about accidents involving potentially the ignition switch because it was either attorney-client privilege or they lacked insufficient information. and it seemed to me in those circumstances that as the regulatory agency that is charged with getting to the bottom of these situations to ensure consumer safety, that that was an unacceptable answer to hear from those you're regulating. and i wanted to get your viewpoint on that, because i didn't think that it was acceptable for gm to answer nhtsa that "i'm not going to tell you about a fatality or the circumstances of it, or what we're doing to undertake the investigation of it based on attorney-client privilege, given the charge that your agency's been given and the importance of it. >> well, thank you for that question. for me, it is