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Well, let's bring in Jeff Green. He's Bloomberg News management and diversity reporter. He joins us from Detroit.

Hey, Jeff. Good to have you on. It's always good to to talk to you.

You know, Carol and I have been doing this together for over 5 years. uh when we used to have you on the program, the conversations were a lot different. It was about uh okay, these are the companies the these are these are the um this is the makeup of the comp of of the workforce of a certain company.

These are the goals that a company has put out there. You guys were the ones that were crunching the numbers and seeing if the companies were actually meeting those standards. Your beat in recent years has really shifted with the way that I think a lot of corporate America and politics have shifted.

Before we get to the individual stories that we want to talk to you about, can you just talk a little bit about even though your title is the same, the way that you cover uh management and diversity in this environment has changed completely?

Yeah. I mean, it's kind of interesting. Each of these situations, you're kind of watching companies be pushed and pulled into directions they're not necessarily comfortable with.

It's it's kind of like this process where they start out, you know, resisting talking about the diversity of their workforces and not wanting to share and then they're sharing it all and they're headlong in one direction and then now we're where we are now. They're sort of trying to find their way back toward something, you know, undo some of what they've done.