agreement, that's more than a month ago, with the corps of engineers under the direct statement that they would start immediately and that they would lift the energy grid in 45 days. the advantage of doing that over doing other processes is fema would deputized the corps of engineers and we wouldn't have to pay anything directly, it would all flow through fema. so under that direction we went with the corps of engineers. the reality is, 35 days later, the corps of engineers hasn't started to work. >> your campaign manager, elliot sanchez has no ties to white fish. now your creditors are saying he's a lobbyist for them. >> he has no ties to that effort. i personally have no ties. i had nothing to do with this contract. this is a very clear effort -- and i want to state this. as soon as the allegations came about with white fish, i did two things. number one, i invoked two