i, too, was also in kandahar just four years before you.my question is to you with, this election that has just and trump being the office, what you think of his as we have known the avengers team. what do you think of them i'm sorry what do i think of what trump's cabinet. i think oh, yes. well, i tell you what, i'm i've got a lot of a lot of you overused the theme here. i've got a lot of hope for it. i mean, we see we see a lot of of new people from kind of outside of the the typical system. i think it's a we need a cabinet that's full of people who aren't beholden to some of the things of the past and are willing to go to work quickly. i think it's a you know, it's not a formal of the cabinet, but i think, you know what, elon and zach are doing is is really exciting as well. it'll be interesting to see know how that how that confer plays out because there will be conflict and i think it's warranted in many cases. but it'll be interesting to see how that conflict gets played out and can a non-governmental organization have impact that the

for example, certain strong men on the ground were, for example, in kandahar, were supposed back and provided for against the will or expectation of the sitting president in kabul. the military was insisting on that, the political arm of the u.s. which is mostly the u.s. embassy, was not pressing a change according to consultive process or frank conversation with the leaders of the country to see what is good and what is bad for institution building and for stability in afghanistan. so that conflict always contributed to this difficult relations between the united states and these presidents. >> thank you. we are at time and i would like to now recognize commissioner jones. please go ahead. >> thank you very much. i want to first thank congress for setting this commission up and doing it in a fashion that i think it is very important for americans to understand that it was done in a bipartisan fashion. both republicans and democrats got an equal number of votes in who was a commissioner and what that means i think is that this commission is bipartisan in its nature, but i think even