they've put some distance between them. i can't see any return to public clive for prince andrew given this latest settlement. >> interesting. anna stewart, thank you so much for that. laura? >> joining me on all of this, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. bernardo, so good to have you this morning. the first question is, why now? as you heard in anna's report he says he doesn't have any idea who this person is even though despite the fact her claims have gone on for quite some time. he's alleged this for quite some time. why settle now? >> it was bound to happen, laura. this is not taking anyone by surprise. they had to see whether they could make it out through the civil process to see if this lawsuit was going to continue. once the judge said the lawsuit can actually continue, that's when they decided, i'm going to settle. you've got to think, so much has happened in the last couple of months.