today is about sports. >> joining me now i'm thrilled about this sally jenkins. the author of the new book the right call, what sports teaches us, what sports teach us about work and life. so sally, i want to start. you recently wrote a column about the merger in the next steps here. is there anything you think could stop the steal from going through, or is it going to happen? >> i'm not at all convinced it's going to go through. the department of justice is already showing pretty intense interest in it to the point that the two parties, the saudis and the pga tour dropped one key provision of the framework agreement that they had signed. also, i would not be surprised to see some sort of major revolt by the pga tour players and other board of directors. one director has already stepped down in protest. the strange thing about this deal is at three members of the pga tour policy board to members, plus the commissioner, were able to do this deal in some kind of london smoke filled room with the saudis. >> behind closed doors? >> without anyone else's knowledge of