thank you. so we will go to athena. a general assignment reporter for cnn. she works out of cnn's washington bureau previously she was a white house producer with nbc where she wrote packages produced story segments and reported on air for msnbc and nbc news. she covered the presidential campaigns of hillary clinton and barack obama during the 2008 election cycle. remember that? let's give her a hand. i'm sorry. sitting next to athena is mr. gilbert belyon, editor of the st. louis post dispatch. last month it was announced that he would be receiving the prestigious national press