number one former treasury secretary timothy geithner nehr said about the s&p downgrading u.s.eath, voting the former treasury secretary, he said the snb's conduct will be looked at very carefully. such behavior will not occur without a response from the government. there is an response. judge andrew napolitano is here. at the time everybody thought this sounds like a shakedown, like a threat. judge napolitano: it resulted in the $1.3 billion payment by standard and poor's to the federal government and state governments but is still what lawsuit involving calpers, the california pension fund which is the largest in the nation. there are equities on both sides. there are serious issues about what standard and poor's new and what it revealed in the mortgage bundling crisis the bubble of which burst in 2008 but there's a strong argument to be made and you made it very nicely simply by quoting the words out of the mouth of the treasury secretary that the motivation for this lawsuit by the federal government, it is heavy-handed negotiation techniques bring in 25 fbi agents and feder

you had lunch with timothy geithner. >> i did. >> was that the first time you had lunch with him?that was the only time i had lunch with him. they met with me when they signed the deal that gave them 92% ownership of aig. the question was, how are we going to sell all these shares? they had lunch with me -- or saw me at the end of 2012, that would have been more meaningful. >> why? >> they should have said, what we put the people of aig through was horrific. i want you to say on my behalf that we appreciate their hard work and that it is incredible what they have accomplished. and to not only pay us back, not only give us a $23 billion profit -- $22.7 billion, but you've kept all these americans employed, you kept them as effective citizens of our country. and we thank you for that. >> they never said that. >> they never said that. >> it almost sounds like you were looking for an apology. >> no, i think people should recognize they did a great job under the worst of conditions. >> today, aig is a slimmed-down version of itself, and profitable. but does it still pose a threat to th