mark: this is interesting news, the department of defense, did the department of defense give a grantr just blew off the proposal? >> they declined the grant, it was too much for them but that doesn't mean the work was not to be performed. first the chinese researchers had other sources of funds, this procedure is clearly on their minds and third, it's routine practice if you have the grant, this was $40 million. a lot of preparatory work beforehand to show your proposal is valid so reason to believe they were inserting here in the virus is, mutilating it and it's exactly the roof that could have led to sars kobe to. mark: but earlier, that one reason possibly the defense department and intelligence agencies don't really want to suggest it may have come from the lab? after they funded it but they were aware of the effort, had to be aware of the effort grant must have been comprehensive, the grant proposal. >> i don't know how the agencies go about things but it seems if you're looking at this from the view of washington's relationships with china and that picture approach, you keep th

s. defense department is now estimating that 3 and a half 1000000 troops. that's u. s. troops in kosovo, iraq and afghanistan eventually returned to the u. s. with respiratory or other health problems because of, of exposure to the burn pits. that is a gigantic number, but the problem that we've seen since 2010 is that the pentagon didn't bother to keep records of what was actually burned, where it was burned, how it was burned, and who was exposed to the smoke. as a result, the u. s, department of veterans affairs has been reluctant to admit that these diseases were service related. has that finally been fixed, or veterans finally receiving the care and the benefits that they deserve. a lot more better in here. ready packed, acted recently was a huge benefit, but again, we are move so slow, we're still seeing a lot of people being denied that we shouldn't be there. but it is turning around, it's getting better. it should have been better a lot faster. what happens with ages aren't, which is very similar to. ready as far as how we handle it took 27 year shooters, vet

but at the same time, the defense department still has not officially bands there use. why is that, and is there any role for congress here? why are the oversight committees? not banning the bern pits and legislation. you're john, you're just as good as mine. just actually my wife has serious rust is where i don't why she's on the shoes in my racket into this issue is just not going away and their, their band aid and they're not all in late summer, jo president biden signed a bill into law that is supposed to improve medical benefits for service members who were exposed to the burn pits. do you think that's enough? it took a long time and it doesn't look like there's any more legislation pending. is there more that you think should be done? or do? i think there is more morality issues that should be done military deal with their own veterans. i don't, i didn't. i didn't like the abilities time, but there's so much work to do hardly see the bill itself. i think i think we should just start by shutting, leaving our veterans and sicknesses. the v a has worked for years and

tell us about your experience with people at the department of defense . i'm on, capitol, hill, or other governmental organizations related to havana syndrome. we know that d o d, the state department and see i have studied their own personnel who have developed this syndrome. but what about private citizens like yourself? have you gotten any answers, any satisfaction from any element of the government? unfortunately, lots i, after i receive my diagnosis, i reached out to every elected official to every aren't from local police to the uh, local elected officials, all the way to yes centers and the white house in, in every member of intelligence community than intelligence committee. nobody was even remotely interested in investigating right in, in looking into it because i was not a federal employee. yes. it's really, i'm sorry, these weapons are real. they exist the why wouldn't somebody use this weapons on us soil against civilians wise it on lead, limited to federal employees and, and the have an act that the act of the b a senate passed and the congress

together our adversaries use cyberspace to conduct attacks against the department of defense and the united states. they do this to weaken our allies and partners and undermine u.s. interests. dins 2018 the department recognized that it is not enough to maintain a defensive posture while preparing for conflict. we must defend forward to defeat our adversaries and meet them in competition in the day-to-day struggle. today the department campaigns in and through cyberspace among our competitors. we conduct intelligence-driven hunt-forward operations to find our competitors' tactics. and we disrupt malicious cyber actors through our operations. we are prioritizing capacity building efforts for our allies and partners who serve as stra teemgic advantage and force multiplier our adversaries cannot hope to match. the president's 2024 budget request prioritizes all aspects of cyberspace. our people, organization, our intelligence, our capabilities. the request includes $13.5 billion for cyberspace activities which is an increase of $1.8 billion from the enacted level in 2023. these investmen

>>> 17 years ago, the defense department launched a $100 million project to revolutionize prosthetic limbs. the robotics that investment inspired is amazing. but even more remarkable is how the feeling of feeling -- >> so if i hold this right here -- >> is returning to people's lives. >> i feel it here and here. >>> you called it psychological warfare. it felt like corporate terrorism because we were terrorized. and it was very calculated. it was very vicious. >> why would senior management at ebay, the popular silicon valley e-commerce giant, want to, quote, terrorize a couple from a tiny town in massachusetts who ran a website out of their home? that's our story tonight. >>> charles barkley is an nba hall of famer who, in retirement -- >> yeah, they think that because they suck. >> ended up rebounding into a job that has made him one of the most successful and colorful sports analysts ever, yes, ever. why do you suppose people want to listen to you? >> i think they know that i'm going to be honest, i'm going to be fair. i don't have a hidden agenda. not many people on tv that you c

s. defense department has always increased its spending. the last 3 years, the military budget went up by 15 percent. some media report say the 2024 final numbers may reach 950000000000, but we spoke with the co director of the international action center. sarah founder's now. she says that while washington spends more on the military, industrial complex, hardworking, every day american citizens are simply being left behind this amount of money, the largest military budget of all time, exceeding any past military appropriation is a disaster for working people in the u. s. and for people around the world, it is a catastrophic amount of sheer waste into militarism $886000000000.00 and it will grow. it's not the end. what the white house is sends to congress always grows by tens of billions of dollars. additional ad one's cost overruns, what it would take to reverse it is working people in the u. s. and globally, really standing up to us imperialism. it won't come from congress. the democrats and republicans invite with each other to add on mo

russian ministry of defense already cited the names of participants in american military biological programs, including officials of the us departmentf defense of american biotech companies and pentagon contractors today we would like to supplement this list with representatives state institutions and private companies of ukraine involved in the implementation of american military biological programs. this is sergiy morgun, head of the sanitary department of the armed forces of ukraine and one of the organizers of the interaction between the ministry of defense of ukraine and the threat reduction department. didra was one of the project leaders. up-8 oversaw research on hantoviruses previously held by sergiy lithuanian, who conducted risk-to -life and health testing on ukrainian military personnel as part of the study of the congo virus crimean fever and hanta viruses volodymyr kurta, the head of the public health center, carried out general control and management of the interaction of ukrainian specialists with gir, organized the selection of biological props from ukrainian citizens and their transfer abroad. the head of the refere

>> well, the defense department is going to come out with their budget monday. the budget, massive as you said off the top. 8.6 trillion budget, but it's behind schedule and if things don't change soon, the republicans saying they don't support it, it could be headed for another one of the those budget government shutdowns and everybody stays late to see if they're funded at the last year's level especially with the defense department saying they need more money. griff: nobody is looking forward to that. lucas, thank you. >> well, for more on this, we're joined by republican congressman from tennessee and member of the house ways and means committee. congressman, great to have you here on the show this afternoon. i want to get to the president's budget in just a moment, first, let me get your thoughts on collapse of this bank, silicon valley bank, the 16th largest bank in the u.s. sending shock waves throughout the world. can you explain what happened. it sounds like invests are going to get their money back. what happened and what does it mean for other banks a

you and i both worked with people from the defense department's office of special plans or o s p in the run up to the iraq war. this was an unusual and highly politicized group. in the defense department, that was led by a close former aid to vice president dick cheney by the name of bill ludy. i found ludy to be a dangerous ideologue and i think you did too. it was ludy and his cohorts in the office of special plans who pushed the idea of amid chelsea and iraqi dissident and one of the most corrupt people i have ever met in my life as a possible replacement for saddam hussein. when chela be fell apart under the weight of his own corruption, the c i dropped him. but bill ludy and o s p continued to support shelby. and the notion that chelsea could lead men into battle in iraq. that of course was a pipe dream. tell us what things were like in o. s p at that time, tell us about how the intelligence community analysis on iraq was politicized. in order to support a war agenda. they took little bits and pieces of intel. some approve and validated until in some just ra ra, information you kno

colby, cofounder and principal under the trumpet ministerip for the department of defense. lyle goldstein defense professor. it fitting professor at brown university. anthony in penylvania, republican line. hello. caller: hello, thank you for taking my call. i am really mystified on how it could be possible that a fighter jet could fire a missile and miss a balloon. and number two, maybe you can comment on this, the balloon that flew over the country, how come they could not get iand bring it down before it flew all over the states? host: mr. goldstein, let me ask you to the balloon shoot down change a lot of what we ask from china, particularly when it comes to military defee or other issues? mr. goldstein: i don't think it changed very much. i mean, in my view, this probably was some sort of mistake. and, you know, i think china should be a bit embarrassed about this. or maybe more than a little embarrassed. but china will do more and more surveillance. china's surveillance, i think they have 24/7 over the satellite that watches everything, every movement of our ships and

but the department of defense invented it. this has been the history of other institutions. i want to make sure we stay at the most innovative department of defense. and to that point secretary austin i commend you for starting the strategic capabilities fund. which is going to be investing in cutting and technology that could be disruptive. i guess i am puzzled and maybe you can help in general millie give us some guidance on how we solve this issue of getting funding to the strategic capabilities fund. and how we get more of the funding went into the purchase of advanced technology. not just the funding of the companies but the acquisition. we've got almost a trillion dollars at a defense we are chock a few billion dollars in seems hard to get that funding. the challenge with china and others as you know is asymmetrical. they're not going to compete with us conventionally. it seems very prudent we take asymmetrical bets. i have one question and it is how do we get more of the acquisition into emerging technologies and asymmetrical approaches and what can congress do to help

vast majority of the wishlist is set to go directly to the coffers of the pentagon, or the defense department wants to use that cash to tackle the perceived threat from china, as well as to provide aid to ukraine and further funding from nato. depend again, also was 6 to counter quote, persistent threats coming from north korea and iran over the years, the us defense department has been consistently increasing your spending. and if not in the last 3 years, the military budget increasing by 15 percent that's rising from what? 740000000000 to 858000000000. a summer media report say the final sum for 2024. could pit as much as 950000000000. well, we can start flounders, co director of the international action center. and she says, the washington is just going to spend more and more money on well, that of the military industrial complex, this amount of money, the largest military budget of all time, exceeding any past military appropriation is a disaster for working people in the u. s. and for people around the world, it is a catastrophic amount of sheer waste into militarism $886000000000.00 and

s. defense department of footage that it says shows a russian aircraft intercepting a u. s. spy drone over the black sea on tuesday, a u. s. authorities say that this video we're about to see shows a russian su 27 fighter jet dumping fuel over the drone. washington says the jet than collided with the drone on a 2nd pass. and we are joined now by military analyst frank ledge, which, who joins us from oxford. i believe frank will be joining us. you. good afternoon. hi frank. let's talk about what this footage footage an edited version actually shows. how would you describe the behavior of the, the russian place a jet well on this one that comes to mind and i'm sure it will totally be made. the word in english is reckless and dangerous for particularly actually for the pilots . but also needless to say, it's very clear that there was a deliberate act and intended to damage or even destroy the drone. given that we now have this evidence, what are the likely consequences of this we don't know too much more than we did last night. i think no one bought the state department's as

and a subcommitte on defense department personnel progrs and challenges facing the miliry. on c-span 2, t senate returns to vote on president biden's executive nomination including mayor eric garcetti, to u.s. ambassador to india. these will stream live on c-span now and on c-span.org. c-span campaign 2024 coverage your front row seat to the presidential election. watch coverage of the candidates on the campaign trail with announcements, meet and greets, speeches and events. to make up your own mind. on the c-span network. c-span now, our mobile video app , or on c-span.org. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. senar elizabeth warn blamed laws enacted by thtrump administration for the collapse of silicon valley bank, attributing it to the rollback of financial regulations established in the dodd frank act. she talked about legislation she has introduced to restore previous regulations to avoid the future bank failures. sen warren: mr. president, on friday, we experienced the second largest bank failure in our nations histy and make no mistake, it was theirect result of

defense. the department of defense is america's largest government agency. with our military tracing its roots back to pre-revolutionary times, the department has grown and evolved with our nation. our mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security. that is the job of our department of defense, not to wage war in foreign lands and foreign countries at the expense of the american taxpayer, but it is to deter war. it is also the role of the department of defense to ensure our nation's security but our border is being ignored. every single day our border is invaded by thousands and over 300 americans die daily from fentanyl brought into our country by mexican cartels. i would say those are the enemies we need to be focusing on, not in a country called syria where no one in my district ever demands, marjorie, we must go to war in syria. i never hear that request from anyone that voted for me. as a matter of fact, the veterans in my district say we are sick and tired of foreign wars. we are fed up with it. and too ma

that the people who are responsible for the formation of the foreign agenda of each of the defense departments of the countries at the csd are present at the event. and here is a unique opportunity to establish closer contact to resolve all controversial issues and discuss ways to resolve them. we all have become eyewitnesses, incessant from western countries, led by the united states of intensive foreign policy of dimash aimed at promoting their own models of organization, including the state in the post-soviet space. therefore, it is precisely to combat these processes that the main attention of the belarusian side within the framework of the chairmanship of the csto will be focused on the internal contour to increase the cohesion of the csto member states.

s. defense department has been consistently upping its spending. and the last 3 years the military budget has increased by 15 percent rising from $740000000000.00 to $858.00. some media reports say the final sum for 2024 could hit as much as $950000000000.00. so to go further, ends up on this. let's cross live now to the executive director of the world beyond war global movement. david swanson, david, it's great, have you on the program today. now, given the current economic turbulence, the u. s. is under. do you think this amount of money is flowing in the right direction when it comes to their so called national security budget? of course not, and it has very little to do with national security or anything justifiable. it's, it has a lot to do with the sort of sick war propaganda that we just watched on this channel 2 minutes ago. i'll be it for the other side of that war. this is money to escalate war make, you know, around the world. and it is in the u. s. budget as much as most of the other countries on earth put together. there are only $29.0

s. defense department has been consistent, increase the spending. and the last 3 years, a budget has increased by 15 percent rising from $740000000000.00 to $858000000.00. some media reports a, the final sum of for 2024 could hit as much as $950000000000.00. we heard from, sorry, founders cook, director of the international action center. she says that washington is just going to spend more and more money on military equipment, this amount of money, the largest military budget of all time, exceeding any past military appropriation is a disaster for working people in the us and for people around the world. it is a catastrophic amount of sheer waste into militarism a $186000000000.00 and it will grow. it's not the end with the white house. it sends to congress always grows by tens of billions of dollars, additional add ons cost overruns, what it would take to reverse it is working people in the u. s. and globally, really standing up to u. s. imperialism, it won't come from congress. the democrats and the republicans of vine with each other to add on m

i know the defense department did in their calls, and we made it clear this is unacceptable and don't want to see any repeat occurrences of this. we have laid bare our concerns and certainly aid out bear our intentions to continue to do whatever we need for national security interests in our the black sea. >> john kirby at the white house, thank you for joining us very, very much. >>> just ahead what's driving anxiety about the state of u.s. and european banks? could it escalate into a full-blown crisis? >>> and what did stormy daniels say to prosecutors as former trump lawyer michael cohen was testifying about the hush money he says he paid her on donald trump's behalf? inner voicice (graphic designer): as a new small bubusiness owner... ...i've learned that tryingg to be the “cool” boss... ...is s a lot harder when you'e actually the “stressed” boss. inner voice (furniture maker): i know everythining about my new furniture business. well, everything except... ...the whole “business” part. not anymore. with quickbooks, you can confidently manage your business. new business? no proble

defense spending the announcement of a new regiment on okinawa major force with australia and our agreement with the philippines where we cooperate together to build on that momentum this budget request the departments largest determines initiative yet $9.1 billion new missile warning construction for more resilient force, homeland defense for hawaii and guam and more collaboration allies and partners. in the budget reflects power continuing to learn from the war in ukraine and apply those lessons to the end of pacific. -- indo pacific the people who make our military the finest force in the world. taking care of our people begins with ensuring they are range and equipped. with every military service exceeding its goal in 2022. testing has been outstanding because the secretary, the president, and congress passed recent budgets on raising military improving quality of life for servicemembers in military families and funding training, operations, maintenance, and infrastructure improvements. this budget maintains and builds on those investments with historic pay raises that help us compete for top talent, military and civilian. new funding for universal at the -- and much more. while continuing our e

we have made very clear to moscow in no uncertain terms from the defense department, state departmentitary channels as well this is unacceptable and it's dangerous. >> is it possible this was just a reckless pilot choosing to do this? do you think this was orders that came from elsewhere? >> so it's certainly possible that this wasn't intended. the end result at least wasn't intended because when you look at what happened, you do see a russian aircraft appearing to careen out of control almost. but, anderson, i think the broader point is, again, that this is not the first incident of its kind. yes, this is the first one where forces have come into contact with one another. but our aircraft, our drones have been harassed by russian pilots almost consistently. and to say that that consistent pattern is the -- is the consequence of pilots doing this, russian pilots doing this on their own volition that just didn't ring true. the fact we've seen a pattern on the part of the forces of the russian federation suggests to us at least there's at least some senior level approval of this kind of

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but according to pentagon spokesperson de defense department has a video of the collision that it could eventually declassify and release to the public. law correspondent jennifer palka told me more about moscow's response yet, according to state media and russia and the russian ministry of defense, there is an official version which differ significantly from the u. s. version. it states that the russian military noticed a drone in russian controlled air space that they couldn't identify. and they were unable to identify because the transponder on the drone was switched off. so in order to be able to identify it, they had to send up fighter jets to line up with a drone. after lining up the draw and went into a shop maneuver that led to uncontrolled flight, a loss of the altitude and then crashing into the seat. moscow states or emphasizes that at no point there was any weapons used against the drone, nor was there any physical contact with it as well. and what else are we hearing about those talks between the russian ambassador and the u. s. state department? the russian ambassador and

and a subcommitte on defense department personnel progrs and challenges facing the miliry. on c-span 2, t senate returns to vote on president biden's executive nomination including mayor eric garcetti, to u.s. ambassador to india. these will stream live on c-span now and on c-span.org. c-span campaign 2024 coverage your front row seat to the presidential election. watch coverage of the candidates on the campaign trail with announcements, meet and greets, speeches and events. to make up your own mind. on the c-span network. c-span now, our mobile video app , or on c-span.org. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. senar elizabeth warn blamed laws enacted by thtrump administration for the collapse of silicon valley bank, attributing it to the rollback of financial regulations established in the dodd frank act. she talked about legislation she has introduced to restore previous regulations to avoid the future bank failures. sen warren: mr. president, on friday, we experienced the second largest bank failure in our nations histy and make no mistake, it was the

does the department of defense remain fully committed to the expeditious and safe defueling and closure of the red hill facility? secretary austin: the department of defense remains fully committed. and i personally remain fully committed. i just met with the people out in hawaii on this very topic here. we routinely get updates. i would agree with you that the admiral's doing a tremendous job. most important he's doing a lot of good things to keep the community informed and the delegation informed of what we are doing and what its needs are, what the requirements are. mr. case: thank you for that. are you aware of any budgetary limitations on the defense department achieving the safe and expeditious defueling and closure of red hill? i looked high and low for it. i don't believe so. i believe that you have the adequate funding to achieve that goal. but i don't want this subject to go past us if there are any limitations whatsoever in that mission as well as the broader mission, which is remediation, some health risks as well. secretary austin: again, thanks for your continued support i

you know, we got a problem with the department of defense.trying to make a law and they weren't elected. we were they want to run it through us, and we vote on it. i'm good with it, but go through the proper channels. what do you say to that? that that this is actually about having taxpayers fund these abortions that, he says what's wrong? yeah. first of all, he is saying if he is saying that what he's saying isn't true, and i have to say, i don't think that's what he's saying. he's saying that the defense department will be an abortion travel agency because it will be paying for travel. i don't think even he is trying to make the claim that abortion would be paid for which again is what makes this even more outrageous, but but but but the second point is that things have changed dramatically for women serving in our military since the dobbs decision was reached that overturned roe versus wade, and he seems not to understand how complicated the world has become , so i don't think it's a correct statement of the law that, he said, and the seco

the defense department says it happened 7:00 a.m.international airspace above the black sea about 40 nautical miles south of crimea. two russian jets starting dumping fuel on to and flying in front of an american mq 9 drone. one jet got so close to the american drone it collided with it. causing damage to the drone's propel larr. the u.s. says it was forced to crash that drone in the water. russia's jets landed safely in crimea. white house national security spokesperson john kirby says the u.s. has been flying over this particular airspace before russia invaded ukraine and that today's reckless collision is not going to deter the united states. and republican south dakota senator mike rounds who is on the senate armed service committee told fox news jennifer griffin that america cannot allow this to happen. here's the senator's thoughts. >> pissed off. i mean, let's just be honest about this for a second. the report coming out of our government is that this was an unprofessional act, and environmentally unsound. i'm sorry, folks, th

i think the official defense department number of casualties was 600 plus, a regime that is put its money where its mouth is when it said death to america. lest we put our mouths -- our words in the mouths of american adversaries and said, no, this is bluffing, sometimes our adversaries mean what they say. if they in building -- in building a national security -- i think we should take them out there word. that is the safest way. host: eric is in new jersey. republican. caller: i agree with your guest. the only thing is, in reality, aren't we looking at a situation where the world's going to have to get used to a distasteful iran, ultimately having a nuclear weapon just like we have with north korea? although biden has looked at the world camera and has sworn up and down iran would never get a nuclear weapon, aren't we just about there? even though there has been exercises with israel and the united states armed forces in what could only be described as a possible prelude to an attack on iran's nuclear capabilities, do you think biden would pull the trigger? guest: would biden pull the tr

but according to pentagon spokesperson de defense department has a video of the collision that it could eventually declassify and release to the public. d, w. washington correspondent michelle la, christina sent us this update. this was a very significant incident, and one of the indicators is that it took hours for this to become public and both sides. the u. s. and russian side are currently talking to each other. that's at least what the americans are saying and discussing at very high levels. what exactly happened, the united states at this moment in time, resorting to fact finding rather than condemnation that highlights how high the stakes are. after all, this is a direct contact between a u. s. military piloted drone with no pilot on board and in russian fighter craft. so the potential for this to become more than a diplomatic incident is huge. ukraine says russian missile attack has killed at least one person and wounded mine, others in the eastern city of crime. a torque, according to the local govern, other impact damaged 9 apartment blocks a kindergarten and a local bank in t

s. defense department's take on what happened over the black sea. you know, we are continuing to assess exactly what happened. but i think based on the actions of the russian pilots, it's clear that it was unsafe unprofessional. and i think the actions speak for themselves what we, what we saw again we're, we're fighter aircraft dumping fuel in front of this you a v. and then getting so close to the aircraft that it actually damaged the propeller. on the m q 9, we, we assess that it likely caused some damage to the russian aircraft as well. ah, to our knowledge, what we know that the aircraft, the russian aircraft did land. i'm not going to go into where they landed. but again, it just demonstrative of a very unprofessional unsafe airman ship on the part of these pilots. one d, w. 's, washington correspondent michelle, a covenant sent us this update. this was a very significant incident, and one of the indicators is that it took hours for this to become public and both sides. the u. s. and russian side are currently talking to each other that's at l

the department is committed to increasing our defensive and offensive cyber activities in partnership with the committee. thank you for the support of the department and i look forward to your questions. mr. gallagher: thank you. general nakasone. gen. nakasone: chair, ranking member, members of the committee. i am honored to testify alongside dr. plumb. joining me now is the senior leader of the u.s. cyber command. in the contested cyberspace domain, u.s. cyber command acts against foreign adversaries that threaten our nation through malicious cyber activity and enable actions by our federal, private and allied partners. last fall, a combined u.s. cyber command nsa election security group countered malicious cyber actors and oversaw activities to defend the recent mid-term elections. the 2022 election cycle proceeded from primary to certification without significant impacts due in part to our effort. going forward, success for u.s. cyber command will be measured how effectively foreign actors are prevented from achieving their strategic objectives. last year saw significant maturatio

s. defense department has released footage to back up its complaint that a russian aircraft intercepted a u. s. drone over the black sea, according to you as the authorities. this video shows a russian su 27 fighter jet, approaching the drone and dumping fuel over it as the aircraft passes by in close proximity without appearing to cause any damage to the drone. but washington says the jet did collide with the drones propeller on a 2nd pass. and that pass is also shown here, with actual collision isn't visible in the editor at video released by the pentagon . although damage to the propeller can be seen later. after the picture is re established right there and we earlier, we spoke with military analyst frank leverage and asked him what stood out from the video. the 1st thing that's flagrantly obvious is that this was a deliberate action by the russian fighters. it seems that they were in the vicinity for more than half an hour, and that would indicate as well that there was some element of permission or did command to this 2nd thing is by dumping fuel as you see there on the screen. no