it's what policies you are talking about and what direction you're going to take the city of new york in. >> i want to get to -- you probably know this is coming. in "the new york times" today there's a big story on the front page. it came up overnight. they're saying they looked at your record as comptroller of new york. you controlled the pension funds for the city of new york, one of the largest pension funds. they're saying you engaged in pay to play. and that is that you gave pension business to people who had given you campaign money. there's a couple quotes here. this is sort of their conclusions from their reporting on your record as comptroller. this is from "the new york times." again and again, mr. thompson reaped political gains from those he awarded city business. routinely mr. thompson's political fund-raisers arranged for him to meet investment managers pursuing city business, sometimes within days of when the donors made their contributions to his campaign. so they have a number of examples here of people who raised money for you, whose sort of business associates raised