defer to them. i was surprised, therefore, in 2018 when michael cohen pled guilty that the southern district never went anywhere with that case, and it stopped. in the meantime, we had been focusing on an economic crimes investigation, and i can say that because hmm. that mr trump sued me and the office attaching our grand jury subpoena in federal court, and so we were onto a what i would say is a different economic crimes investigation and were then moving forward on on a broader investigation. alright so when alvin bragg was asked the question at a presser at the press, and he just was just asked, and it said that the question included the premise that your predecessor declined to charge now. in his answer to the question. bragg did not challenge that premise. so i just want to give you a chance to clear the record here. you're saying you stood down because the southern district of new york asked you to. is that the same thing as saying that? i mean, did you specifically declined to bring charges because you didn't think they were merited or not? at the time. i don't think we ever. uh