skill and on a bipartisan basis which is not easy to accomplish which shows a lot about senators gilson and ability to reach across the aisle to find common ground and it's not easy. i applaud you mark for your leadership and as i said i look forward to being with you on a ticket this fall and i agree this is one of the most consequential elections in the last half-century. where the country is is in really dire shape, we have three crises converging on us all at once. we have the worst pandemic in 100 years and in an odd way were back to 1918, we do not have a treatment for covid-19. we don't have a vaccine for covid-19. for racing against the clock to get both but we don't have them right now. that's why quarantining was the only way to try to stop the spread, this is a highly contagious virus and even with the messes that we took, we saw 110,000 americans officially listed as dying from covid-19 in 2 million plus americans actively have been infected. but we know those numbers understate the real level of this contagion and is without the. the american academy is all but collapsed. w