who is joining me on set and ali vatali from new hampshire. and stephanie, so glad you are here to break us the news and bring it to us. you spoke exclusively with bloomberg s communications director and what did he tell you about the timing and why now and the goal? i know. i know the team well. before i joined the team, i worked with bloomberg news. i spoke with the communications manager and as far as why now, it is easy for us to say and traditionalists to say way too late, but in their mind they say look at the 18 early voting states and only one-third of the voters according to a recent cbs poll have decided who they will vote for. and jason schacter went on the say, why are you are not doing the caucuses, and he siing that is the way to do it from a fund-raising perspective, but mike is entirely self-funding. remember that president trump said that he was self-funding,