former microsoft chief executive steve ballmer is here. he is a former ceo of microsoft. icians and your fact, your latest, what were you trying to impress upon them and what were the facts that you were pointing out this time in. >> we spent some time, we just finished our annual report for government in america, state, local, federal, and i think the number one thing we were trying to get people to understand is it's good to use the history of what happened as recorded by our government as part of policy making and at least in my opinion every new bill that passes should have some key metrics that people are going to use and maintain and deliver in realtime. you know, how are we going to assess the ira or infrastructure bill or what happened with harp or chips unless we're getting data back in realtime the way people would in business. i don't know how people make decisions and we're trying to push that point by highlighting what we have for data and in some cases how old it is. >> i know you like to stay apolitical with the data but i'm curious, of the new pieces of inf