joined by brian beleskey and david greenlaw from morgan stanley, david katz from matrix asset advisersand our own rick santelli. gentlemen, thanks for joining us. appreciate t.david greenlaw, let me kick this off with you. what are you expecting as we approach the close here as we know that here we are on the day that sequester cuts will take effect? any big surprises, you think, in the next hour? >> i'm not sure about the next hour, maria. i think the market has been well aware that skywester is coming and is going to kick in. i don't think that will have much impact. i'm more focused on how the sequester gets changed or adjusted over the course of the next month or so. we'll be revisiting this issue towards the end of march with the continuing resolution and the sequester is likely to be wrapped into that, so we'll have short-term disruptions in the economy related to the -- the sequester going into effect, but those disruptions should be relatively modest, i suspect, and the big ge is what happens at the end of the month with the continuing resolution. >> yeah. brian bellsky, you ca