i'm philip moeller, a member of ferc since 2006. thank you for holding a hearing on this important topic. we've got through quite a winter, particularly and eastern interconnect of the to reference on page three of the staff and out with particularly starting january 5, the polar vortex events. we need to send appreciation to the thousands of people who kept the system running, the control room, mr. hunter's members, people who may decisions, dispatch. they came to remarkably well in a system that was very stressed. i consistently said that we will let the market decide which fuels are the winners based on economics and affordability, but i can't be reliability neutral. on this subject it's just important to we have to maintain reliability of the nation's great. i went back and looked at the letter that senator murkowski wrote me in 2011 and my response, and my house testimony that year in which i called for a more formal process to analyze potential reliability implications, particularly environmental rules, to my knowledge that pr

took the first two days of games off because his wife delivered a baby, noah, and that's heroic, moeller victory for the new york mets, nay be the only kind of victory we're achieving but set a good example. >> woodruff: but there are male sportscasters out there criticizing daniel murphy and said he shouldn't have taken time. >> a pro football player on the air said he was wrong about it. i think it was because it was opening day. if he'd taken off two games in the middle of july, wouldn't have meant anything. but opening day -- but he picked a no hitter! >> woodruff: i just want to get both of you on the record -- >> if somebody took off two days in the middle of july, wouldn't have been a big thing. but opening day, i think that's it. >> woodruff: but you're on the side of the wife or different of noah that he had both his parents there and he'll remember it well. >> i wish the "newshour" would have let me take off when my three kids were born (laughter) >> woodruff: mark shields, david brooks, thank you. >> woodruff: we return to afghanistan, and a deadly attack on two veteran associ