evergy is in a terrific region of windmills evergy has a bunch of natural advantages, but the stock hasnderperformer for a couple reasons they accuse management of having a suboptimal plan. that's a jimmy chill word. they're spending too much on buybacks and the execution hasn't been great since the merger in 2018 as always, i quote, evergy implemented a new strategy to repurchase shares rather than driving sustainable valuable creation by making critical long-term system investments, end quote. they continue. evergy's current plan relies on base rate to multiple years while relying on buybacks. most utilities are looking at better rate base increases than 50%. so there is a real lack of ambition here. plus they point out a string of operating issues including the prolonged merger and management's recent guidance cut. yeah, they cut guidance, even with this great area home of the super bowl champion lombardi trophy. so you can understand why these activists want change. but why the heck are they calling for this utility to embrace environmentals sustainability well, it doesn't hurt that

not getting things done commit to such a contract -- contrast, on jobs, getting the economy going, evergy independence and every level this is a president gettig things done. the democrats have sort of thrown atm per tantrum for three years. by the way, we have added a million small online donors and mailed donors to the trump campaign since october because of this impeachment so it is absolutely energized airbase and raised a lot of money. >> shannon: and great numbers for the president and the republican primary record numbers for the president so much to celebrate on that side of the aisle. ronna mcdaniel, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> shannon: let's take a deeper dive in the results what they say about the state of the republican race, special report bret baier sticking around with us. good evening, brett. good morning on the east coast. thank you for sticking around. what is your overall thought, a win and outright win for sanders but not by much when it comes to their field? >> bret: shannon, i think it is obviously a win for bernie sanders, but a lot clos

evergy is interesting. in process and we'll wait and see what really goes on. >> i was trying to take them away from you and let me cover them more. >> yeah, well you can do that. why don't you tell me what the performance numbers were for the last few years, because the fact is, and i'm not sure elliott's performance has been particularly strong, jim >> all right >> despite all the activism and news, at&t of course also large cap, the large cap activism they're doing [ cheers and applause >> that's why they were talking what, joe and becky were talking to stevenson about the plant >> yes >> stock's doing okay. went down to 37, and came back [ bell ringing ] >> there is the opening bell the s&p 500 and cnbc real time exchange at the big board real estate finance celebrating its ipo and ppd at the nasdaq celebrating its own ipo. the public debut was yesterday, jim. biggest of the year so far >> we spent, i spent too much time looking at casper, but those kinds of, i like those kinds of deals it's good. there