murray, thank you very much. on that, joining me now, i have chief political correspondent dana bash here with me in new york, cnn national political reporter and mattgen hine for "the new york times." dana bash to you on the notion of the new york primary mattering so, so much, i'm reading, people are saying it's been decades since it was so totally pertinent to clinching the nomination. >> right. for lots of nominations. first of all just because it's usually so late in the calendar, which is hard to believe we are pretty late in the calendar in recent history, we have a presumptive nominee by now, that's one, but two, you know, new york, you don't think of it as a place where republican candidates are decided especially in modern times, and it actually is an interesting place because it is a blue state traditionally and it's going to make it even more difficult. i've been talking to some strategists, trying to figure out exactly where and how the best campaigns are to be run and messages are to be run, to attract new york republicans which are at least down here, not in upstate, different from others. >> i think also, matt, to you, on ted cruz he