signatures by january 22nd of next year, the question will go on the ballot. shankar singam is a californian. he s campaigning for his state to become a separate nation. and he joins us tonight. shankar, thanks for coming on. hello. tucker: this is one of those stories where we have putn into the amusing category, kind of a joke. i was in california this morning, it dawned on me this is real. this could happen thanks to the ballot initiative system in the state. o this would mean breaking up the united states of america. do you fully comprehend thete applications of this? certainly. i don t think it s you are making it sound as if california is moving 100,000 miles away. we are not. we are still here. we are still trading with each other, communicating with each other. families are still going to see each other.re it s not as if we are moving millions and miles away. tucker: you don t know that. haiti and the dominican republic are next to each other.mi they are on the same i