text:  yes howie sorry about that okay good i'm very good john and thank you for stepping forward and i know uh i know it hasn't been an easy thing for you uh to be to be dealing with this all this time uh tell us tell us uh well first of all tell us why you decide to step forward and uh and expose what's been going on in these what you call healy hotels i call them foreign flop houses well you know howie that is a very complicated question one that i'm certainly uh willing to address um