it's part of a bigger strategy, and andrew ross sorkin of the "new york times" joins us to explain. he's also the author of the book, "too big to fail." tell us about this deal first. why would aig sell off a big part of itself like this it. >> this is part of both sort of larger aig -- narrative which is they have a new ceo that they have installed and strarjically they are trying to pear down. aig was this enormous global company. some argued that it was so global, and so big t was too big to manage. and in this case one of the step s that he said he wants to address is that issue, selling this piece and another piece there is another business up for sale too. another insurance business that they hope to sell in the next couple of weeks. and between those two businesses they are hoping to actually get 50 billion dollars in total, 25 billion of which should go back to the federal reserve. >> now does changing the business and the kind of businesses it is in include getting out of the derivatives business, all the tough that got it in trouble in the first place? >> well, that's almo