it's definitely a bipartisan effort. >> and mariah jordan is the public policy manager at facebook.nother former deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush, former counsel to senator richard burr. greg maher say former aide to house speaker boehner. and he is a public policy director as well. and finally, marnie levine. she is the former chief of staff to larry summers at the national economic council. worked at treasury department. so those are some of the people that facebook has hired in the recent past to work on their staffs. we're going to be talking about facebook. its ipo is coming up. and we want to get gautham nagesh's take on it. the numbers rupp on the screen. republicans 737-0002. and 628-0205 are the numbers for you to call. gautham nagesh, the fact that we are doing a segment on facebook are we being a little outsized by this too as well because it's facebook? >> i don't think so. i think the short answer is that facebook is part of something like 200 million or 150 million americans' lives. it's almost as much a part of our communication system as cable televi