well, and my colleague mike mccourt che spoke with all the contributors tar reed, who believes that the us end is allies and likely to be held responsible for any of the crimes they support for so many international work. crimes being committed right now, not only in ukraine, but also in gaza and was flouting international laws flooding treaties. and there doesn't seem to be any investigation or consequences when it has to do with western nations being involved. and that's really leading to some reflection that has the u. s. has ukraine become a rogue state by rogue state? i mean, they flout laws, they do whatever they can to, to enhance and keep their power. the fact that in the light of all of this that's happening, they're still going to give billions of dollars to crank in weapons. says at all they're still funding this regime. and it's not a democracy. let's talk about these. the issue of crucial information like best mm . hm oh, of what benefit is it to a country when they have information yet they sit on it and don't really use it exactly. and you, there used to be some sort of,

rumbaugh: mike mccourt, one of his favorite ways to do it is the cumulative amount of time we have spentder cr. my way is that in the last 31 years, it's only been 71 times we have had new appropriations from congress. that's not too bad. the only problem is in the first 20 years it was once and in the last seven years it was seven. that was terrifying to me to realize that we could be in a new era. hopefully that is over and we now have greater predictability, although yeah i don't think it will be for a potential election. mr. harrison: let's see if there are other questions in the room from folks. i have got one that i always like to ask. if congress came to you and said hey, we have more money, we want to give it to the navy. if you had one more dollar, where would you put in the budget? mr. rumbaugh: nobody ever asks me that question. they always say no, you can't have the marginal dollar, it's going here. the secretary is very clear -- one of the great things about working for the secretary, one of the longest-serving, since 2017, and he has had three enduring priorities and we hav