joining us our dynamic duo of political experts lonnie chen, fellow at the heber institution, he directs the messick policy studies at stanford university, and policy director for mitt romney's presidential campaign in 2012 and political senior writer carla mariucci picked carla, lonnie, good to see reunited. >> thanks, kristen good to see you. >> and it feels so good. >> i was wondering which one of you would do that. great to see you. they got 1.6 million signatures, more than the 1.5 million threshold. so what are the next steps, give us the timeline, carla. >> technically the recall is not yet qualified, what remains is a period for people who signed those recall petitions to remove their signatures above 30 days. nobody expects that to change the outcome, really. after that, the state is going to analyze the cost of the election. some people saying, it could go as much as $400 million, that'll be a record-breaking budget busting recall, nohave a parade of candidates has got to sign up to run on that recall ballot. tevorecallet g rsnewsom, and who should replace him. it's inspected t