i'm actually 10 years ago when i was last in drl. the idea they were just limited to what had happened with this great human rights defender and opposition is to russia could be repeated and iterated on globally. appreciated the tool because it allows us to have a smart sanction that the drivers entrepreneurs shall we say and some of the systems promoting the authoritarianism correction. happy these services are held accountable sit look, they are doing terrible things to their people. if they are stealing money, if they are repressing dissident and civil society. to stop it from getting. it's a state department's purview to give at will. so we're using the visa restrictions and what we are finding in terms of evidence and learning and analyzing this tool which is relatively new, it has a fact of naming and shaming internally. there is a status to being able to travel abroad. so some of the systems of the georgia were adjusted our policies, ironic were we have done it very deliberately and carefully to punish and give consequences an

the support for drl is very vast and wide. foreign assistance in drl is one of our main levers of promotion of democracy. how do we go about doing it? i would recommend everyone read on our website our strategy because the strategy talks about the different pillars of democratic support including the procedural part that you are talking about, including the complementary support for civil society and the support for other institutions. our support for transitional justice to enable society to hold accountable themselves, the authoritarians in their past that might have suppressed rights with repression. our strategy lays out our interests in governance and freedom of mind. our interest in technology and human rights, etc. it is a vast strategy that informs our proposal process, which i think people are familiar with was deeply competitive with pru the rules of the road assigned by congress and enforced by drl, which has to do with getting really good, really cutting edge proposals that make the case for impact. we are always l

we've got to the get this should drls.on here, so maybe everyone's confident can, listen, when trump was elected, they hit the ground running, it'd be nuts, crazy for them to -- >> but the republicans don't always stay together on these matters, unfortunately. charles: yeah. any of this ore stuff, you know, are you concerned? geopolitical risks? a.i., bubbles? >> no, the tail risks almost by definition the ones we're not thinking of, and certainly the inflation story, that's a shop-worn theme, the trade war, we've heard that for a while. the u.s. is in a much better negotiating position than almost all of its trading partners. we're the biggest consumer in the world. to me, president trump's policies are spot on in that regard. so that, to me, is not a risk. charles: and he's coming from strength. >> thank you, charles. charles: great seeing you. all right, folks, don't look now, but commodities are coming on strong, and when that happens, there's just one person, former gartman her publisher dennis garth man. dennis, i ju