security commissioner 3under presidents bush and obama. i should say, we invited reporter hannah walt and producer alex bloomberg from planet money to join us tonight. they were unavailable an but have expressed interest in coming on in the future. michael, i will begin with you. why did you decide to write this letter? >> we decided to write this letter because the factual premise of the npr article is just not true. they use loaded terms like skyrocketi skyrocketing. basically told the american people there is some unexpected sudden change in disability policy. >> and it is not true. you read the trustees reports for the last 20 years, we have been saying since 1994 that there s going to be a solve ency issue in the disability trust fund in 2016. and that exactly what is going to happen. so it is a little bit like saying daylight is skyrocketing