mr. elliott. in terms of the entry into the system, and if you are speaking on the positive of many opportunities. for problems. and there seem to be in my experience a number of problems getting the system and that is a problematic area because you are merging several lines into one subway line. are we making progress in terms of addressing some of the church issues? >> first of all it is not your imagination, it is a problem and yes we are making progress and here is what we have done from, and we have done about 90 days ago and we realized a failed entry and when the vehicle coming in-bound could not get automatic train control and what we found is that there are three basic cause and one is the vehicle itself and not being able to make the connection and what we have done is we are now at almost 100 cars and we placed something called a tucometer and which is what talks to the signal system on the vehicle. it should be replaced every couple of years according to the manufacturer and ours have

if you ever wonder why you had to read the federalist papers, back there in school, yes, elliott, thank you, mr peterson, i am actually finding a useful because one of the federalist papers actually did talk about the importance on this very reason of having these kind of decisions in the body closest to the people and relating directly. >> more beholden. >> and what happened to a bunch of those members of congress who voted against what their constituents wanted to let something that the people in those districts can have something to say about and, in fact, some of them i think -- you have seen what happened cents. you have seen the ads that have gone up against them. these are people who stand to election. am not saying it is perfect. and i might even have to think that there is not a lot of corporate influence. the differences we have mechanisms of leverage and commerce as citizens, but we don't have them over on elected unaccountable negotiators. many the congress to set standards for what these agreements should and should not include batman mini that to be done by people we can hold acco

elliott may have had a brief conversation. >> really? >> i am told there was nothing substantive discussed during that conversation if you look at mr. ceo roles and there's a look at paul singer, who is not running this, he has a couple of other guys running this campaign which, by the way, has been brutal and it's at the meeting if not before, but jim, you do get the sense and i certainly do from my reporting that there's a possiblity of some sort of resolution in the next 24 hours. we'll see if it happens. you have the elliott side which i believe is feeling fairly confident and it has four, maybe all five of its directors and so what are they willing to take and they're getting closer to having real talks and whether that will occur is still to be determined. >> i'm confused, david. if you want the stock higher, you sell the company, you don't add directors. what with am i missing here? what is an adding of directors to the minority mean? >> to the extent that the new slate proposed by hess to replace five directors by exiting is a better group of directors and it's a much more constructive group. you have ten new board members a