jeff kilburg, kkm financial founder and cnbc contributor and dom chu who contributes probably more thanhow are you? good to have you all here. ed, let me start with you. i did not realize that there was a house select committee to study the chnts communist party and some members that have committee are going out this week to meet with, among others, bob eiger and tom cook explain why they are going to be talking about. >> so, the committee is i think relatively new i think with house transferring power over to the gop they have started to kind of formulate these commites to look specifically at what they consider big threats to the u.s. china, of course, is a big threat that both sides, both democrats and republicans have been looking at very carefully, but the meeting apparently, this big sort of trip out west is really just to kind of get a feel for what are you doingnent at the same time, and when are you doing in technology to give us the ability to compete better now it -- it's very political, of course, but, look, let's take a close look we buy half a trillion worth of stuff from