borrowers by establish iing reasonable payments to borrowers, and stabilize housing markets. my group had to adhere to servicing agreements that limited our ability to make loan modifications that could have helped more borrowers. in the press, it has been said that i ran a foreclosure machine. this is not an accurate description of my role at one west bank. on the contrary, i was committed to loan modifications intended to stop foreclosures. i ran a loan modification machine. when we could do loan modifications, we did them. but many times the fdic, fannie m mae, freddie mac, and bank trustees imposed strict rules governing the process of these loans. i am proud to be able to say that our bank was able to do over 100,000 loan modifications that allowed people the
first of all, martin, i think brian williams needs to wear a helmet to that debate because you never know how much newt will come after him. the person that needs to disarm him is not brian williams, but mitt romney. you ll have to watch the dynamic whether or not mitt romney decides to intervene if he goes off after the media again. for him to say it s not just the media raising questions about your work for freddie mac and fanniem mae. he s contributed to the foreclosure crisis. mitt romney has to go on the attack and it s not in his interest to have newt gingrich limit his attack. being an attack dog doesn t come naturally to mitt romney.