o. mike worth salary, rose 12 percent and one year to $26500000.00 in 2023. some of this money does stay in texas in terms of well, the university of texas is 2nd only to harvard, and the industry paid the state over $26000000000.00 in taxes and 2023 of the money has went up. but as far as if it was like, is a little bit harder now since everything else is there's are so there's more to the story than the oil boom, creating many good jobs. this route here is going to be a back to the job site active job site, okay. maintenance side of things. these guys work in rain, snow. he go everything, there's a lot of sacrifice with it. i think a lot of people are hesitant to do that. recently, there have been massive layoffs in the industry, some of which have been triggered by fracking induced over supply. on top of that, new technology means fewer workers and wells are necessary to keep up production. we reached out to companies around midland to ask what this means for future job creation, but never heard back how it says more people are leaving than he's ever seen.

mike o, as my mother gets up at 3 or 4 in the morning and big spread people to calling in at a client in the bridge. yes, that's right. the serve christmas edition. this cold meets us 1st can be still has to be prepared. to do is we'll dive into roots and move it into shape. then comes the decisive moment. and then i'll take some stuff here. we have a cooling teeth washed and wrapped in foil, then to eat. so now we hide it in the dough. yeah. and so the belief is that whoever finds the hidden coin at christmas breakfast, we'll have good luck. the units many christmas traditions are vibrant time. the read, do you know of any more christmas traditions we haven't heard of yet? do you enjoy winter sports for many skiing or snowboarding is the highlight of the cold and snowy season. this also includes people with disabilities, but is a not being done so they can also hit the slopes and enjoy themselves. what hurdles do people with disabilities face on school? holidays, and how can accommodations and ski resorts become truly very a free? we joined, adaptive ski are too much going on in the

and mike pompei o is bright, brought in to set things to a right. so i have doubts of the 1st of all, what trumps real intentions are in these regards. you know, whether, you know, he has any long held foreign policy. police built beyond who talked to him in the last 15 minutes. and i also questioned whether the us president actually has any power over for, and military policy. and the, if that's not the real per view of the blog. uh, you know, you want to call the ds that will mark the permanent bureaucracy mark before we go to the break. i think that there is really one foreign policy that donald trump is a been interested in, even when he was a, an in new york. real estate is china, china, china, china. that's what interesting will richard. we'll revisit it after the break. gentlemen, i'm going to jump in here. we're going to go to a short break, and after that short break, we'll continue our discussion on 2024. stay with arch. it's the take a fresh look around his life. kaleidoscopic isn't just a shifted reality distorted by powell of tired visi

♪ ♪ o christmas tree ♪ o christmas tree ♪ ♪ ♪ o christmas tree ♪ o christmas tree ♪ >> mike: good eveninghington. i'm mike emanuel in for bret baier. breaking tonight be two stories some republican lawmakers are on the fence about reelecting mike johnson as house speaker after a contentious vote to avert a government shut down. chad pergram on a potentially messy speakership election. but, first, president-elect donald trump's transition team has been moving at lightning speed to have potential cabinet member and other top officials ready to make major changes on day one. some say mr. trump is already acting like he is the president. senior national correspondent aishah hasnie is here with more on what the former and future commander-in-chief is up to today. good evening, issue sexual harassment. >> mike, good evening to you. he is searchly thompsoning at the bit to get back into the oval office. is he in mar-a-lago. spent most of christmas day on the golf course in palm beach. hit more than just some golf balls today firing off series of truth socials making news tonight. first off trump

. >> reporter: house speaker mike johnson o opposed releasing the report since gaetz is no longer a memberns to force the release of the report. >> the fact that we have to ask whether the republicans will support making public allegations of sexual impropriety by somebody who is trying to be the highest law enforcement officer in the country speaks volumes of the republican party. >> reporter: gaetz for wrong doing earlier this year, gaetz admits to what he calls embarrassing behavior, he says he partied and womanized too much and later reformed himself. gates was president-elect trump's first pick for attorney general. ashley. ashley: thank you very much. appreciate that. now this, 81-year-old congresswoman kaye granger hasn't cast a vote on the house floor since july, apparently she's moved into an assisted living facility. jason rants joins me now. jason, does this not beg the question that we need some kind of cognitive test for older politicians? >> look, i don't know if you need a test or can actually impose a test. i think the voters probably would say you should be. i think at the

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am the architect of the capitol and i am honored to be here this evening as speaker mike johnson lights the 2020 four o christmas tree with the help of our special guest, rose, this year's christmas tree lighter who came all the way from alaska. it is a pleasure to welcome all of our guest this evening along with our capitol hill neighbors and those who are visiting washington, d.c.. a lot of work goes into finding the perfect christmas tree and i am glad to say we have made a beautiful selection this year, a 80 foot spruce from the national forest in alaska. lighting the capital christmas tree has been a festival holiday tradition since 1964 and is one we are proud to continue. it began when john mccormick and jay george stewart displayed a christmas tree on the capital grand to celebrate this special time of year. in 1970 the architect of the capitol partnered with the u.s. forest service to find the perfect candidate for the people's tree. we are grateful for the efforts that help make this annual festive tradition a success. this year the tree made an impressive journey, 700 miles by c and 4000 mil

that o,was not how lawmaking wa done. mike johnson knew when he was saying that that the legislatively insane musk-trump bill was going to fail spectacularly. when the house voted a few minutes later. after a relentless 24 hours of pressure from elon musk, the richest person in the world, who is obviously the richest person in the history of republican politics. three dozen republican members of the house, 38 republican members of the house of representatives said no to elon musk. 38 republican members of the house said no to donald trump. after having their political futures threatened by both donald trump and elon musk, trump and musk said that anyone who voted against this deal should be knocked out of office in the next election. they threatened the political lives of those 38 members of the house. donald trump threatened republicans who didn't vote for this bill today, saying they, quote, should be primaried and disposed of as quickly as possible." donald trump has never been more directly and personally threatening to re

we are a week away from possible government shutdown december 20 mike johnson expected to discuss reconciliations with president trump oeive reported leadership wants two reconciliation packages bill on border energy beginning of the year a second reconciliation will include tax extensions the ends of the year something i have been asking lawmakers about watch this. >> i would bet that we're going to see two reconciliation packages. >> going do do border going to do energy policy we are going to do tax, we are going to get it all done, numbers at a hundred billion to secure border also what needs to happen to deport criminals. >> tax needs in first reconciliation, we need reconciliation bill that has border, energy, permitting tacks congress has not passed two reconciliation bills, into law since 1997, it is harder to pass bills in the house than in the senate. >> is there a risk that a second reconciliation bill doesn't happen the end of the year? >> absolutely, you want to get maybe even three because we can do that with fiscal years taking cr next year do it even three over the two-year congress. >> a so congressman

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now the head of a w h o set one up by a cross crew members was a judge on the tom mike. he was late to move to jordan for medical treatment, a u. n. on special 7 is will stop the airport without warning at both civilian lives at risk. what was most frightening about the strength was an effect on us is that the stripes took place as a civilian and i not from human near very hundreds if you have a nice at was it back to that? and in france, the that ad line from human, the was landing type seeing in when the traffic control was destroyed. fortunately, and that claim was able to sign safely. and the passengers were able to this and bar, but it could've been for 5 hours. not any of us did. we have an 0 indication of any potential strengths, but we kind of remember the last time they were a strides in santa during daylight hours. now ports along the red sea coast were also targeted by is ready forces in addition to power stations across the m, and a total of 6 people were killed according to local authorities. now political communications professor of the university of ron, f

saying that support for ukraine must be stepped up by o g 7 members and sanctions with ascension should be explored against roger have, or i, mike many sites that mike kind of in washington dc. the is what the forces have killed at least 50 people across the goals and strips and stolen on friday. the in the north of goes the all because booms heavy off to me, 5 and hit ambulances, kamala and one hospital. this way, the military is laid siege to the north for more than 2 months. now kind of go bank system, medical supplies and repeatedly attacking health care facilities. and they have been more is really strikes on the goals of cities. i'll stop the neighborhood. is there any forces on the house sheltering displays, palestinians the, the injured to being taken out of the hospital elsewhere and goes to the city and is where the drone attack has killed a jealous, shoddy owls of p. t was riding his bicycle with another man. when the drag and find them again, jerry reports us without board is says more than a 145 journalists have been killed by these really ministry says october last year because remains the wells most dangerous regi

mike heading. does usaid colleagues, shannon mcguire said the agreement between the agency and the n g o is a co operative agreement that has a substantial involvement clause, which gives us say the right to have it say on the annual word plan of the ccrpi and a right to veto appointments of key personnel on every new funding contract. if the ccrpi needs to change key personnel, for example, the chief of party, which is true sullivan, then they submit a request with a resume and we review it. she explained. heading detailed at the right, a veto concerns the top tier of people, such as who's the editor in chief, or who's the ceo, the managing editor, etc. so the us and its allies basically to is the story of the country and even the people in charge and then present it as in dependent journalism, totally ins. and when people question more, they're dismissed as a russian assets. incredible smell. take a look at this e mail that we'll send 2 o c c r p stuff, the subject propaganda against our network. a reporter from durham, and state broadcast or n d r is trying to prove and i get to the story on o ccrpi. t

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mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. this is the day, the year, o lord, have made. as we consider all that has taken place, may we find reason to rejoice and be glad. for by your grace you have fulfilled your promises and guided us on the paths toward our future. as we reflect on the year that has been 2024, we are keen to acknowledge that each moment has been a gift that you desired us to enjoy. each challenge was an opportunity which you strengthened us to overcome. each disappointment was a siren to return to faith in your mercy. and each encounter was a graced gift given that we would share the unconditional love you offer us all. such a graced gift was the life and witness of former president carter in whom we have borne testimony to what it means to be a fitful steward of your bounty. a just arbiter of your commandments. a compassionate witness to your kindness. and a 80 disciple to your gospel of love. we give you our gratitude for your abiding presence in the midst of all our hopes and fears of this past year. and we offer our future to your

o agreement. it is not our responsibility to bail them out. they have the majority. mike johnson is the speaker of the house and it is his responsibility to unify his conference and to put a bill on the floor that they can support, but what i'm saying is, alex, that we have interference from billionaires like elon musk who are taking the opportunity to play orchestra conductor and donald trump was so eager to comply. so that's how we find ourselves in this position, an unelected billionaire has blown up congressional negotiations and is shutting down the government and that's what is unacceptable. >> eric, congressman swalwell, what's so stunning in the reporting about this, and from what i understand from inside congress is people were generally on board with passing this thing as of wednesday, right? there was no mention of it, you know, trump wasn't talking about it earlier in the week. >> that's right. >> it's really a confection of elon musk's making and trump has actually almost played catch up to figure out why he's incensed about igit and added in this de ceiling

mike asegura que el problema principal es la infraestructura, ya que pasa por muchas intercepciones y zonas altamente pobladas. >> si tuviÉramos mejores barreras, que cualquiera no pudiera pasar, porque muchas veces hacen un zigzag ol vÍdeo del accidente con la intenciÓn de hacer un llamado a que se trabaje en equipo y que se respeten las barreras de seguridad. en este aÑo se enunciaron $45,000,000 en mejoras de la seguridad. numerosas muertes corresponderÍan a personas que estaban caminando o corriendo en las mismas. ilia: salen a la luz nuevos videos del accidente mortal de la compaÑÍa aÉrea surcoreana que sirve para determinar las causas de la tragedia. analizarÁn las cajas negras rescatadas y tambiÉn buscarÁn inspeccionar otros aviones del mismo modelo. guillermo gonzÁlez tiene mÁs. guillermo: el vÍdeo muestra aterradoras imÁgenes de los instantes previos a la tragedia. el aviÓn cubrÍa la ruta de banco — mohan. aparentemente varias aves impactaron el motor derecho del aviÓn. [habla en coreano] guillermo: por lo que se ven las imÁgenes, algunos expertos creen que el aviÓn entra la pista mucho mÁs adelante de lo que deberÍa y a una mayor velocidad. que el aviÓn chocÓ de frente contra una barrera de concreto al f

mike garcÍa, capacitÁndolos con importantes tÉcnicas de cÓmo recolectar informaciÓn vital. pero el estado de descomposiciÓn es muchas veces tan avanzado que pertenencias como ropa, joyas o muchasratorio con los restos de migrantes estÁn siendo almacenadas, cada una con un nÚmero que se espera se convierta eventualmente en un nombre con apellido y un destino para ser enviado al lugar donde comenzÓ el sueÑo de una vida mejor. en eagle pass, texas francisco cuevas noticias telemundo. >> hablemos de las tarifas bancarias. la oficina de protecciÓn financiera al consumidor finalizÓ hoy la regla federal que reduce los cargos por falta de fondos de unos 35 a unos 5 $. otra de las propuestas incluso incluye considerar los sobregiros como lÍnea de crÉdito y aplicar los intereses por ese monto. este aÑo los bancos cobraron mÁs de 5.800.000.000 de dÓlares en comisiones. la nueva regla aplica a solo unas 150 instituciones bancarias de las 9000 que existen en este paÍs. esto serÍa a partir de octubre y no se sabe si durante la administraciÓn de trump se mantendrÁ. esta noche ya pueden regresar a sus hogares los residentes forzados a evacuar por el incendio franklin en california, las autori

office right afte wanted to make sure people thought new yorkpe was a place o live, to visit, and to invest. but, one thing about mikea it became pretty clear this was not just a public safety issue. as a public health issue. in fact by 2020 if i am a right, guns became the leading cause of death for children and teens for the obvious question, annie, is how do you mobilize the medical profession? particularly doctors to work on this as they work on other public health issues like a tobacco. so annie, you are a doctor. take us inside hospitals. take us inside of doctors offices and tell us how this issue is dealt with. >> sure, when i became a pediatrician when i decided to become a pediatrician i envision the career caring for children with diabetes in caesar's disorders and broken bones i never imagined i would care for so many children who had been shot. as you just said gun violence is on the leading cause of death for children in this country this is a pervasive public health crisis. you would be hard-pressed to find a physician practicing in any subspecialty that does not walk around the haunting memories of st

. >> part haof what we saw play o on wfriday, we'll see this a l, the internal dynamics of the house. they put mike johnson in a position where they said the deal that can pass you're not allowed to pass anymore. p so what they wanted was the republican clean bill lift the debt ceiling because trump wanted it all the way to '29 at one y point, 2029. part of what speaker johnson had to do was the put that on the floor and show it erwould fail. he has to publicly show his own members your ideas won't work and mine will. it's a little bit of humiliation that helps him stay in leadership because they realize you were right all along, but they also have to beat him up for tit. so that's the question.es look, do we have a couple stubborn republicans aon janua 3rd vote for elon musk for 3rspeaker of the house and not mike johnson. if so we could be in a state of suspended reality in the speakership for a few weeks. >> i will note january 3rd that is the vote, january 6th certification must happen. it's in the constitution. you can't do that until you do the business of electing a speaker. >> little things

that's c o r a or you can go to ktvu.com and click the link for this story. >> mike lamonica peters live tonight in redwood city. lamonica thank you for that. a days long manhunt has come to an end. 26 year old luigi mangione was arrested in altoona, pennsylvania. nearly 300 miles away from the new york city crime scene tonight. he is facing several charges, including murder. investigators say he is the one seen on video shooting and killing unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson in midtown manhattan on wednesday. this morning, mangione was arrested after an employee at a mcdonald's thought he recognized him from photos released by investigators. we want to show you the booking photo of mangione. >> the 26 year old is facing a murder charge in new york, as well as five charges in pennsylvania, including forgery and carrying firearms without a license in the suspects backpack. police say they found a 3d printed gun and a black silencer believed to be used in the shooting, as well as cash and a passport. >> he was initially cooperative. he is not now, and so he has been arraigned and transpor

. >> mike, i think we just got the answer o the question i was going to ask you.nt biden feel it was important to talk to the nation tonight about late president carter? >> well, jonathan, you know, at the top of the show, you read all those statements from members of the president club, president obama, president trump, president george w. bush also paying tribute to president carter tonight, saying he helped dignify the oval office. well, i think every member of that club has either prior to their becoming president or during their presidency developed a relationship with the other members of the club. what's so unique about this relationship between president biden and president carter was just the length and breadth of that relationship. you'll remember president biden was first elected to the u.s. senate in 1972. that was the same year president nixon was re-elected. ultimately the watergate scandal was what helped create the conditions that allowed a political outsider, somebody running as a fresh face, someone on the virtues of honesty and decency, jimmy ca

mike garcÍa, capacitÁndolos con importantes tÉcnicas de cÓmo recolectar informaciÓn vital. pero el estado de descomposiciÓn es muchas veces tan avanzado que pertenencias como ropa, joyas o muchas es lo mÁs triste. los chiquitos, los. >> los niÑos. en estos momentos cientos de cajas en este laboratorio con los restos de migrantes estÁn siendo almacenadas, cada una con un nÚmero que s se espera se convierta eventualmente en un nombre con apellido y un destino para ser enviado al lugar donde comenzÓ el sueÑo de una vida mejor. en eagle pass, texas francisco cuevas noticias telemundo. >> quÉ importante que los restos regresen a sus paÍses de origen. bueno, seguimos con la noticia que ha capturado la atenciÓn del paÍs el asesinato del director ejecutivo de united healthcare en el corazÓn de manhattan. el sospechoso, luigi mangione, esÁa en una celda individual de una cÁrcel estatal en pensilvania. aquÍ estÁ vanessa. con lo Último del caso. vanessa ya. la defensa da seÑales de cuÁl puede ser su estrategia. cierto. >> asÍ es, julio. aunque hay evidencia muy sÓlida en el caso de johnny. como por ejemplo, que los casquillos de bala encontrados en la escena del crimen coinciden con el a

o, bro, theology, bro. and is beginning to look around this sort of question of evangelical christians and i find it interesting because mike pence, the former vice president, was a favorite of evangelical christians. but they seem to have wanted a more muscular, a kind of more rob, brutish sort of champions. and i'm interested if you have any insights into how that fits. because, you know, you've been a republican for a long time. you've been commenting on what it should look like, but even jellicoe christians have been a part of that equation also for a long time. what's, what's changed that is empowered, that dimension of the g o. p. in a better timeline, steve, here would be the nominated for the defense department instead of pete hex. of you know, i think we've seen a real tribal ization of american life and an inability to even understand what our opponents are thinking about. because we regard them as our enemies and we don't want to know what they're thinking. and i think that's applied to the evangelical christians community just as it's applied to lots of other communities. they really let slip a lot of their form

para expertos como mike burgell, esta dinámica podría tratarse de casos específicos más que de un nuevo modo de reclutamiento. no es una manera de operar. posiblemente. ha habido unos 2, 4 obargo, su parlamento rechazó su intento y votó a favor de levantar dicha orden. solo horas después. pero tras varias protestas. cabe mencionar que unos 28.000 soldados estadounidenses se encuentran en corea del sur y por ello la administración biden confirmó que estarán atentos a los acontecimientos en ese país. mientras que en el medio oriente volvieron a caer las bombas a pesar del cese al fuego entre israel y hizbala, que entró en estado en efecto la semana pasada. ante esto, el presidente electo donald trump, está prometiendo la furia de estados unidos en la franja de gaza. si no libera a los rehenes antes de que él llegue a la presidencia. randy serrano tiene más detalle. el tan anhelado cese al fuego entre israel y hezbolla ya está en la cuerda floja. menos de una semana después de que se pactara el plan, israel atacó partes de líbano, dejando muertos y heridos y p poniendo paz en jaque. ambos se tienen desconfianza mutua y porque no se precisó muchas cosas respecto a las fechas,

it's progress and when it's mike ends, but even also 4 and a half hours of to from the president. those questions remains on on said you would actually solve all of a o. d 0 must guide you will be in union has meant for the final time in 2020 full, full as a year this but the men's pressure on local powers with us election, posing unique questions about the ever had she had a home, has more the final gathering fee you lead is wary of a new year filled with the onset president trump, and i say this respect for me is a business not by backgrounds i think is engagements in many ways with the transactional and i think you're at needs to consider how we can make that case of id economic relationship, be a 2 way street the return of donald trump to the white house that goes more than a possible trade well with you, or it could mean pressure on ukraine to negotiate. and in to its real war with russia, you lead as a team to show that you can lead the way in supporting ukraine. the presidency lensky was here to tell them that isn't enough. y'all have you heard of ice cubes. i believe that you repeat and guarantees will not be enough for ukraine, and this cann

mike lombardi in. he just i if i'm reading the room right, he wants to be the x's and o's and that's it.oesn't want to deal with the nil, which is what ran nick saban out of college football last year, which is one of his closest friends. they won super bowl together. they've coached together for so long. so he has that kind of pedigree of wanting to coach and having friendships in the coaching. but i think he's going to delegate all that business to others. he wants to run it like like an nfl organization. i think he's going to do that. so he couldn't survive going to hang out with boosters and things like that and going to dozens of kids homes that he's not doing that. he's not doing that. >> what do you think about the i mean, deion sanders is somebody who went into the league obviously, and has brought a lot of attention and charisma to the buffalo colorado buffaloes. how do you compare the two of them? >> i think the star power is there. obviously deion as a player is is a little more star power for high school athlete. but at the end of the day, these kids are looking at these coll

[inaudible] democrats object to o the gop defense spending hikes saying they should be not dollar for dollar for more domestic spending. with the republican budget. mikeindependent. >> i'm kind of ÃÃand you probably do need ÃÃbut the way i see it. if he won both majorities in the house the budget process with that comes responsibility and doesn't seem like, and i've been watching c-span. you not allowing the democrats to dive in. you said at the beginning of the show yes you did me some democrat brian. you don't have nothing from the roads. cutting all the programs that help it seems like if you wanted the process where you buy into whatever you do. >> we do have a budget earlier than we've seen in decades. the corporation of the spending process earlier than ever. and hopefully the audit recess. we have two fundamental differences on one side our side wants to actually have a point in the balance. democrats never bring the budget to balance. and if we did, how do you actually bring a budget like the balance and never bring the proposal. it's hard to get the bipartisan buy-in that we want. it's hard to get up because the fundamental use. >> it's also

mike. hi. before we for lunch and geritol a jell-o shots i would i'd you've mentioned that he lost his inheritancewhile he was in class related. how did he regroup and have the financial wherewithal to globetrotting do all this revolution or re work? oh, adrienne. so it was when he comes back. yeah he's he's been dispossessed of all of his property by audrey and some of the stuff that her family held. and if any of you guys want to chime in here too, that would be great. but she still held property and that is where they moved into. and in fact, like when he's running for office in in after the restoration, one of the ways that they try to attack him is by saying you don't actually qualify to do any of this because none of the property is in your name. and they i mean, they switch some things around to put it in his name. but like most of his life, he was he was a kept man i hodari in the later yeah if i can add to that he once said that he gave away one third of his fortune to the american revolution, one third to the french revolution, and the last third, the jacobins stole. so he was really in

o-l-o.com >>> welcome back to fast money. another record year in options as volumes continue to hit unprecedented levels in some of this year's most popular stocks from behind increased interest. miken here. mike? >> yeah, that is the max seven that has to be said. so, if you take a look at the unprecedented growth of the options market that they've been experiencing now for quite a number of years, what is also very interesting is the increased concentration that the volume represents. so, if you take a look at the max seven single stocks, they represent 17.6% from all daily options, and that includes ets and indexes and things like that. if you take a look at just the s&p 500, they represent more than 50% of the contract volume over the last 20 days, or example, versus everything else. and if you look at it on eight notional basis, that means you are counting the contract volume in a $400 stock like microsoft than you would with comcast, and that actually increases to almost 68%. so what you are really looking at in terms of dollars moving around, two thirds of it in the s&p 500 single stocks is happening in just those seven. >> is there a sense -- i imagine it's retail traders b

he made a phone call to mike johnson this, as julie says, appears to be the way it is going to go. ot of the united states to get these things killed, buckle up if this is the way we are gonna run the government. >> that is what i was going to say, buckle up for 2025. this is what it is going to look like. to julie's point, first of all, yesterday, the feeling in washington was, this is done. it was a bipartisan agreement. this is done. everybody is packing up their offices, making their christmas travel plans and, all of a sudden, it wasn't done. which happens occasionally in washington, whether it is policy making and bills being passed or what but this was a bit of a surprise to a lot of people in this town yesterday. it reminds me a lot, willie, i think we all lived through the first trump term when the team at the white house would say something and trump would say something that contradicted it on twitter or x or whatever they're calling it, now you have the owner of that platform as an additional person who may be contradicting what the plan is. maybe you is what the plan is f