nothing to make the cars safer tomorrow. and these guys, they're testifying today and tomorrow and the corporations is under criminal indictment. the s.e.c. is investigating them. this is grand standing by congress. getting their name and face on your show, talking about what they're doing to help the american public. what they ought to be doing is making sure that the administrative agency, the highway safety board and the s.e.c., make sure they're doing their job as opposed to slapping around some guys that are under criminal indictment and probably had their hands tied about what they can say. >> neil: not only that. it's not as if we don't have safety institutions and regulators in this country that are supposed to police all the cars in this country. you could talk about the transportation and what it knew and when. all of these safety authorities here who dropped the ball. i didn't see it closely scrutinized today. >> but it should be closely scrutinized. >> neil: it's not, michael. what i'm wondering is whether, you know, i have no