where they need backup, and then we ll do everything we can to provide backup. but is there a point that you would require a stake takeover of the nypd? no. you couldn t do a state takeover of the nypd. i would be of assistance to helping the nypd we have to perform a policing function, right? that s state constitution. provide public safety. the nypd, if they have a serious staff shortage, then i would work with them to figure out how we remedy that. but the nypd is something like 30,000 employees. there is no replacing 30,000 employees. number of covid patients in the new york city area transferred to upstate hospitals, especially the capital region? does anybody know that? we have transferred over the
magnatar. they re creating credit that they know is bad credit and betting the bad credit will decline. why does it take the former new york state insurance commissioner and the audacity to try to investigate that? there s a couple reasons. the first thing is the next a.g. has to have the kind of experience i ve had. i went through the financial crisis, i was a regulator. i understand the financial regulatory reform that came through. you want somebody who look what came out of washington and understand what has gone on. and what evidence there is to justify that kind of case. but what i m saying, when there s this much money on the line, and the there s this level of deflection why do i need an expert like you, when any lawyer should be able to learn how the money was stolen. that s the beauty of the attorney general s office. you have an independent separate policing function there. it s not a regulatory function. it doesn t have anything to do with setting capital requiremen
that s why the miscommunications. if they go before congress with the gee, i don t know if it s the steering column or the brake, we re looking at all this and we ll get back to you, bob. that s a mistake to go before congress and talk like that and so far i haven t heard much out of the toyota that they understand the problem and know what s going on. they re trying to fix whatever it is but that s part of the reason it s a runaway train. they can t articulate the problem and to go before congress, it s harder to be a punching bag. we know the game. we ve seen it with the tobacco c.e.o.s and banking c.e.o.s and health insurance, they re dragged before congress, ripped a new one, right? and what comes of it? [ laughter ] something to be said of shared blame. a lot of u.s. agencies missed their own policing function. so what the heck? first of all you re right.