administration, each passing election cycle sees a little bit more penetration of politics into the bepentagon, many of yo have been at this over the course of careers that stretch back over decades, and we have all seen it. the attempts over the last month or so to a line the white house's own objectives with the pentagon's observes are worth lauding, it's useful to have some alignment, if you will. on the other hand, the political folks need to be more careful, contribution that they can make is to in fact be allowed to do its job, very, very well. and that was the fundamental premise that the branchs of government were set up and set up the friction between the executive and legislative branch, it will benefit us to separate out those things that are being driven for political purpose and those that contribute to the national security of the united states, i'll close my remarks that the point and we will prepare to open the floor for questions, let me remind you of the process, if you will. we have microphones, wait for the microphones so that in fact the audience on the web and on televisi