please welcome to the program rupa bhattacharyya. rupa! ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] there we go. it is so nice to see you again. >> thank you. you too. >> jon: you and i met in 2016. you had just -- please explain. you became what is called the special master or the special paymaster of the 9/11 victims compensation fund through doj. >> that's right. through doj. i was appointed by attorney general loretta lynch at the back end of the obama administration, and then served for six years through the trump administration and part of the biden administration. >> jon: and your job was to take this program that had been appropriated by congress and translate that legislation into action. >> that's right. and basically, my job was to make sure that those who were injured by the september 11th attacks, mostly because they were at the sites and breathing in the toxic dust, got the compensation that they deserved. [applause] >> jon: so you were, if i may, and obviously, i don't mean to just paraphrase, you are a parasite on the system. >> yes, apparently. >> jon: what do you think when you