because it's very different from our speaker techtive. if we think we're proceeding, basically the question for the new material is when and if and how we implement it, but we're going to go ahead with phase a. that's one kind of decision. you have to choose between two very different approaches, that's a very different kind of decision for us to make. >> i think what i'm hearing is that his response to the question -- it is responsive to the question at least in what we have asked and our local power to do, the presumption has been there would be a phase a implementation as we have designed it with something else to follow. * >> is that a correct assessment? >> that is a correct assessment. but i think the central point that we have heard repeatedly from local power as well as the advocates, stakeholders is that in doing that, if you lead off with the rates that have a premium cost, then you risk losing through opt-out customers which goes to your second point. and, so, absent, absent the city policy makers being able or willing to borro

the secretary of state has been very clear about taking responsibility here, it was from my sper techtive, not reasonable in terms of having a specific level of knowledge that was very specifically resident in her staff. and over time certainly didn't bring that to her attention. that was admiral mike mullen. secretary, how many cables do you say arrive every year to the state department? # hadn't -- 1.4 million. can you tell me how long it takes to read 1.4 million cables? >> if i ever tried to read 1.4 million cables i don't think i'd be sitting here today. i'd probably be collapsed somewhere. i appreciated what admiral mullen said. when you sit on top of large organizations in his case the united states military, which is huge and in my case the state department and usa i.d., you put in place processes, and you have to trust the judgment and the good sense of the people in your organization. the 1.4 million cables, they come in the state department, you know, the tradition is they are all addressed to me. but the vast, vast majority are funneled through the processes to get to the righ