we got none that, and it has to be noted that the woman, barbara bowen, who has been on cnn a lot more than i have and a lot more than you have in the past few days, that there's not that kind of agreement where she's concerned. >> they said you guys are so classy that you don't dip into the muck and the mud like other people do. nobody indicated that what happened would happen. i thought there was a good chance the interview would be canceled. obviously it wasn't, and i think we can probably fairly safely say that they had a strategy in place for when the question was asked, which maybe they thought we couldn't use silence on the radio. >>> coming up, cars slip and sliding as mother nature blankets half of the country with freezing tempings in some places. snow even. things aren't warming up just yet. a look at your forecast next. but, first, how we pay for goods and services has changed dramatically in the past ten years. as we usher in the era of mobile payments and the virtual wallet, that's the topic this week in our special series "tomorrow transformed" with richard quest. >> tod