mr. shephard your good. >> mr. chairman, follow-up on that. i hope the egyptians, the chinese, the ukrainians are paying attention. i want to reiterate complete support for what the chairman just mentioned. on the foreign operations committee, the package is put together, your number one the subcommittee very successfully persuaded nasa to finally build a heavy lift rocket with a man capsule. there were ignoring a such a tour language the authorization said that nasa had to build a heavy lift rocket to go beyond low orbit. i think we should pursue and i would support your efforts on the -- with chairman ranger to make the second part of set aside. think you did that, mr. mr. chairman. you don't get the second half of your money for commercial until you comply with the statute. you ought to think about putting contingencies on the aid to ukraine and the aid to egypt until they, the egyptians, give you access. >> with the gentleman yield. i think -- i agree with you. not so much on this particular part of it. egypt is decided the other day, the

mr. shephard? how has everything been since you've been up here? >> it's all right. mean, it's solitary confinement, really, but if that's what i got to deal with until i go home, that's what i'm going to do. because i'm up on under 900 days. and if it takes me staying in that cell until i go home to avoid all the craziness going on out there, do this or do that or get this or end up having this done to you and all that, they can keep all that. i'm going home. >> okay. i will get with internal affairs. make sure we follow up and make sure all the paperwork is done appropriately. and we'll work on making sure that you get adjusted to what you need. if you need anything or something happens up here, you let me know right away. >> all right. >> okay? all right. thanks. >> all right. >> he has a legitimate concern, i would say almost 100% he'll get granted protective custody. and he'll probably do the rest of the time on protective custody inside the prison. >> some people can say, oh, you're soft. you're a coward. oh, you punk [ bleep ]. whatever they want to say. hey,