mr. lukemeyer is recognized for five minutes >> welcome, chairman powell. good to see you again. we're in the middle right here of a really disastrous situation with ukraine, and you know, part of the approach to corralling the russian advance there is on the financial side, and it appears to me that we didn't do this as quickly as we should have and it didn't look like we have a plan. if we wanted to get involved financially we should have said when they move the first battalion or regiment we should have said something, okay, if you move another one there we'll start doing things to you and we didn't do that until they started to invade and now we're playing catch up that beg the question, we know china is watching all of these actions very carefully and they're looking at what russia does, how we react, how the rest of the world reacts and what they do and we need to be sitting here as a country, as a fed and congressional individuals saying we need to be ready for the chinese when they invade taiwan because i see no reason why they will not do that shortly. so if we don't pre