bringing in david ferber on the news line. >> hey, melissa. how are you doing? >> good. what's the latest here >> i think what's interesting of course here is the third time proved the charm, but it's been an awfully long road to get here, as you well know, and having followed every step of the way, i can certainly tell you that as well this is a combination that many thought would have taken place at this point years ago. but was stymied for a variety of reasons. the first time around, after shari redstone had taken back in a sense not control of the company but taken over her father's affairs and control of the company through that way, a number of years back and gotten rid of philippe domonas the ceo, there was an expectation it would move very quickly to a deal with cbs. they were unable to agree at that point on social issues but as much on economics fast forward, try again. as we well know, and as i detailed time in, day in and day out, of course, the problems they had in trying to get a deal through leslie moonves, wanted full control in terms of his ability to ap