front row seat to events leading up to the canal's transfer from the townhouse pan matchett bob mcmillena former chairman of the panama canal mission and author of global passage. good morning, sir. it's great to have you here. >> great to be here particularly everything else going on in the world. >> it's a unique time in the world, essentially a dangerous one. this is history-making of course. you actually have a piece of the canal in your hand. can you tell us about this? >> well, why don't you just take it for a minute. >> okay. i. >> now you can say you actually felt a piece of panama in your hands. >> remarkable. >> what happened is we were -- to get the canal ready for the transfer, whether you like the transfer or not, it was the law, and so we were widening the gal ladder cut. rocks had to be blasted out to widen the cut. most of it was put on barges and taken out into the ocean and dropped where it was maybe two or 3,000 feet depth. i took a few home. i gave a rock like this to a friend. and you know there has been controversy about the canal. in other words, transferring it to