thank you, mr. bates. i will get straight to the question. i want to add a slight comment after you and. howmany people -- sorry, many refugees that are coming -- i'm sorry, america is directly responsible for creating that situation of them being a refugee. how many of the refugees are coming into america? created with the war or whatever? host: call her, thank you. thet: yes, this is one of arguments in favor of refugees. u.s. interventions and a lot of countries have helped to create refugees. obviously, the iraq war and chaos that it and gendered iraq theh spilled into syria, invasion of afghanistan, u.s. operations in places like somalia and yemen, the u.s. has its fingerprints in a lot of hot war zones in the world. and these wars create refugees. i do think there is a persuasive argument there that insofar as the u.s. government's foreign policy is helping to create refugees, we have a higher obligation to accept the people who are fleeing these conflicts. i will say our -- i do believe our humanitarian and strategic and economic inter