bush and tara dowdell and the former apprentice contestant. thank you for being here. re with iowa and the big event taking place, tara. so joe biden, yet again, is missing from a big, big event that is taking place. of course last week we had the convention in california and now he's not there, skipping this event. do you think voters will start noticing this? >> i think -- >> or you go there on tuesday -- >> i think people are already noticing it. you've heard criticism around the fact that he doesn't seem to be as out there as other people. at the same time, he was the vice president of the country so clearly he has a name recognition. this part of the primary season for a lot of people is about having people get to know them. and get to know their record and who they are. and so a lot of the other candidates obviously have more work to do in that space. particularly those who are polling in the very, very low percentage. part of that is people don't know who they are. so i think that -- so i think that for biden, certainly he needs to make sure that people knows he