mr. sandler, would you like to speak to this? >> no, actually, i'll start from here. i'll wait -- so wow. this is the last item. yeah, it's been a lot of effort in putting this budget together. i'll have my long arm, john scarpulla -- and so what i'll do is i'll give a recap of what the budget -- operating budget -- you know, it's 1.5 over $1.5 billion, and we're over 2600 employees. and so i will kind of go over the key themes and then eric already addressed the -- you know, the ten-year capital plan, ten-year financial plan, and two-year operating budget. but as eric said, we started this in the summer, 2019. we said we're going to start early because we want to put a lot of effort in. in doing that, we roughly estimated that we had 156 meetings amongst ourselves, and it -- probably more, because when they came up, we said okay, you had to live within the rates. so then, we went back and met again to bring these proposals back to make sure that our budget would be within our rates. and i just want to say, they have done an excellent job of vetting, especially the bu

mr. sandler joins us now on the phone in a cnbc exclusive interview.with welcome to "the halftime report. good to have you on today. >> thank you good to be on. >> i have your letter in front of me, which you sent to the board dated february 4th can you explain what you want credit suisse and its board of directors to do? >> i want credit suisse's board of directors to back its current ceo. i believe that the board of credit suisse is reacting to news articles, sensationalized news articles in swits zerland only in relation to some of the spying incidents and believing that they need to fire their ceo in order to repair their reputation. this is a firm with a tremendous reputation with its clients. this is a firm that needs its c ceo, who has been a terrific architect of the turnaround, and we would like the board to back the ceo. and we think it is likely that the chairman and the power center of the board is trying to push him aside for personal agenda reasons we think the rest of the board needs to back the ceo, stand up and not allow this man to be

mr. sandler, would you like to speak to this? >> no, actually, i'll start from here. i'll wait -- so wow. this is the last item. yeah, it's been a lot of effort in putting this budget together. i'll have my long arm, john scarpulla -- and so what i'll do is i'll give a recap of what the budget -- operating budget -- you know, it's 1.5 over $1.5 billion, and we're over 2600 employees. and so i will kind of go over the key themes and then eric already addressed the -- you know, the ten-year capital plan, ten-year financial plan, and two-year operating budget. but as eric said, we started this in the summer, 2019. we said we're going to start early because we want to put a lot of effort in. in doing that, we roughly estimated that we had 156 meetings amongst ourselves, and it -- probably more, because when they came up, we said okay, you had to live within the rates. so then, we went back and met again to bring these proposals back to make sure that our budget would be within our rates. and i just want to say, they have done an excellent job of vetting, especially the bu

mr. sandler, would you like to speak to this? >> no, actually, i'll start from here. i'll wait -- so wow. this is the last item. yeah, it's been a lot of effort in putting this budget together. i'll have my long arm, john scarpulla -- and so what i'll do is i'll give a recap of what the budget -- operating budget -- you know, it's 1.5 over $1.5 billion, and we're over 2600 employees. and so i will kind of go over the key themes and then eric already addressed the -- you know, the ten-year capital plan, ten-year financial plan, and two-year operating budget. but as eric said, we started this in the summer, 2019. we said we're going to start early because we want to put a lot of effort in. in doing that, we roughly estimated that we had 156 meetings amongst ourselves, and it -- probably more, because when they came up, we said okay, you had to live within the rates. so then, we went back and met again to bring these proposals back to make sure that our budget would be within our rates. and i just want to say, they have done an excellent job of vetting, especially the bu