. >> can i ask you then to address under renault evaluation, a term that jim mcconnell uses and may have been coined by the nasa administrator, technology inversion. you've got a strong, tremendous technology base on all the labs and you develop these technologies and i know one thing that i've heard you all speak about is how long it takes us for a lot of good reasons and some not so good reasons to deploy them. what innovations, what progress have you made in the last year in technology insertion? you say when you can deploy those technologies sooner, it can work them into the mission to build faster and better and more efficiently, so, kim, do you want to start again with technology insertion? >> sure, i think this is an area where we've actually made a lot of progress and as james mentioned with the digital transformation, changing the kind of technologies we use and the way we use technology is equal parts technical and cultural. it's not as simple as saying i have a great new idea or tool or technology, let's just roll with it. there's a high degree of confidence we have to build i

and senator mcconnell got senator jim lankford from oklahoma to lead the effort. and the reason for that was he had great credibility with house conservatives and they came up with a pretty important immigration package and one that, frankly, was very favorable to republicans. and senator mcconnell tried to sell it to his members as we're not going to get a better deal in this. but then then candidate donald trump said, don't do it. no deal. and the deal fell apart. so he's senator mcconnell has been involved in immigration issues for a long time. another major debate, negotiation that he was part of, of course, as senate leader was in 2017. the massive tax overhaul that came along. republicans are in charge president trump is in the white house. it became law. how big of an issue was this for the leader? mcconnell? it's a really important issue because it's an important issue for the republican party. part of their orthodoxy. it's an important issue for the republican donor base. and it was an important issue for then-speaker paul ryan. paul ryan was an expert on