i'm from new york city and one thing you canit always count on new yorkers for is to be direct. i would like to take a moment to address head-on the idea that there is something somehow improper about u.s. government agencies working constructively and collaboratively with our partner enforcers in the states and in foreign government. let's start with some fundamental principals. first every government has the right and the responsibility to target illegal conduct that violates the laws of its jurisdiction. that includes u.s. agencies, enforcing u.s. law against foreign o enterprises that opere within our borders and for sample eu agencies enforcing eu law against foreign including u.s. enterprises that operate within their borders. those laws are different and we are a course each bound by the parameters of our own laws. second it is in the interest of both nationstates and their commercial markets for there to be consistency in harmony in our legal regime. it is not good for international business enterprises to deal with contradictory legal systems in different parts of the -