so should it be business' operational priority as well, and if so operational priority as well, and ife more of a priority for business up and down the country. the government's priority remains to secure a deal. with 14 weeks to go, a responsible government ensures that we are ready in case we leave without a deal. that is what we agreed at cabinet and over the coming weeks we will see a significant increase in the communications businesses to ensure that the technical notices that we put out in the summer, the notices we have put up since, actually get the traction within the business community that we need to see the toe that they are planning in the event that no deal were to occur. isn't this irresponsible brinkmanship because there is no majority in the house of commons for no deal? there are clear intentions on behalf of mps to block no deal. this is the government walking mps to the cliff and saying they can only vote for ideal that they hate oran only vote for ideal that they hate or an alternative. isn't this really irresponsible? it is not enough for parliament not to say wh

it's not the priority. we learned that with prior to reagan and eight years of the obama administration so we had to take care of that and q-quebec that and that's what we are doing so because the second thing in terms of priority is. second we have to modernize the force as for the competition while we've been very busy fighting on terrorism, china and russia have been rapidly modernizing their militaries and unfortunately they've been doing a good job so we have a serious problem there they are doing things better than we can and the military advantage is eroded in the war fighting in areas such as power projection, cyberspace, electronic warfare, air, missile defense, submarine warfare, long-range fires and as a result the nonpartisan national defense strategy commissione report released ths month warns americans might struggle to win, and this is a quote from the document you are required to read -- [laughter] it says we might struggle to win oor perhaps lose a border with china or russia and we are tal

so we have six priorities. the first is to use this as our blueprint for our conduct on the committee and the second is to make sure we continue to get the bill'bills outcome of the authorization bill for the committee i chair to get it out early because quite often it doesn't get out early. we are committed to getting it out before the end of the fiscal year which is october 1. it's true i did and take over the position just a few months ago but i was also doing it on an acting basis before that. we got busy and set a record of getting the defense authorization bill out the quickest in 40 years. we are not going to have a problem. we've got to get out of this mindset. it would be a disaster. any of you here know that. that's the first thing. second is to rebuild the residence. a lot of people we talked about the problems we are having both we have other problems if we stop and think about some areas where we are not as good, not doing as good a job as our adversaries right now. we are doing up to two years ago

that's supposed to be our priority. and we're going to be able to do that and we have to do what we're proposing is to remove the -- those areas that affect the military from the restrictions we have. and i'm a conservative and i've been ranked in the top three conservative members of the senate and the house before that. but i've made the exception in those two areas. defending america and the infrastructure. so i was grateful for the partnership of our committee's top minority leader senator reed the effort working together as jack and i have. beshould continue down the path toward strategy-driven budgets that give the troops and sustained and sufficient predictable funding they need. it has to be predictable. and our contractors out there it kostas lot more if they don't know from year to year what we're going to be doing and what our priorities will be. so we really feel we're working together and some good things are happening. but we've got to do is not repeat the mistake of the obama years by returning to the arb

he does not have a high priority on military. and so, he readjusted his priorities so that we just had a real serious problem. we fell way behind our peer competitors russia and china. john: what are your priorities? sen. inhofe: six of them. the first one, there is this document right here. this is the best one in the years i have been there. this is called, this is the document that is implementing what the president is trying to do and what he says his priorities are. this actually does it. what is good about this is it was put together by democrats and republicans, all experts who made this thing up. when they put it together, they swore that they would tell the truth for a change. just what our condition is. to give you an example, because this comes from this here. such quotes as "the commission, this commission, assesses unequivocally that the mds, our defense system, is not adequately resourced. america is near the point of strategic insolvency. america's military security has eroded to a dangerous degree. america's comba

so, we have six priorities. the first priority is this. to continue to get the authorization bill , to get out early because quite often it does not get out early and we have to have it out and we are committed to getting it out before the fiscal year end which is october 1. we would do this it's not a problem. it's true that i did not take over this position until a few months ago but i was also doing this on an acting basis before that. was not busy and set a record getting our defense authorization out, it's the quickest in 40 years. so, that thing we will do the reason we have to do that is we have to get out of the mindset of cr is this, it's a disaster. so, we don't want that to happen. that's the first thing. the second is to reboot. a lot of people have talked about some of the problems that we have with other departments, some areas where we are not as good, we are not doing as good a job as our adversaries. right now up to two years we had a brigade combat team and only 30% working that we couldn't deploy them for maintenance sam

i thank you for making this the top priority for the 116th congress. as one of the first members to be sworn in, i'm proud to stand with my current and future colleagues today in support of h.r. 1 and to the american people, we have heard you. our caucus is eager to restore the democracy and give you the government you deserve. and that work is starting now. thank you. mr. sarbanes: again, thank you for being here. i thank our class of 2018 again and the couple who got here a little bit sooner, for your incredible advocacy on this point. we have been working on the democracy task force for a couple of years and even prior to that. speaker-designate pelosi had made it clear that she wanted to reach out to the country to the people and certainly to our members and get that input as to what we needed to do to restore our democracy. and so we have been toiling away in the salt mines to put together a strong bold package and did it just in time, because the class of 2018 is arriving telling us this is exactly the statement, the package we need to take back

our top legislative priority will be passed by the um ca but that's a win for agriculture, complements for this point but we've got to get it over the line. that's just one. we need new free trade agreements, ag trade is a huge aspect of viability for the american farmer . >> are conversation on the farm bill and agricultural policy continues. . if you work in the agriculture industry and want to give your thinking on the topic, (202) 748-8002 p and you can post thoughts and comments on twitter. portions are previous guest talked about in the farm bill was subsidies for farms. can you make the case for why farmers need that kind of thing from the federal government? i'm sure you have heard they don't. guest: one of the portions talked about previously was subsidies for farms. can you make the case why farmers need that kind of thing from the federal government? >> yes i can. we've heard the dialogue, more than ever commissioners secretaries had a viable secretary in the state, crop insurance, these are provisions that enhance the farm sustainability and economic viability. it's a huge

those are our priorities. we should have fair trade and free trade. -- that's what my district demands. mr. levin: mike levin from california's 49th. my district is in san diego in orange county, and cross-border trade is extremely important to our district. the president has taken a relationship with mexico and canada to the brink. unnecessarily. and while we don't know the full details, but it resembles what was there before. a lot of this is for show. ultimately as an environmental advocate, i will be looking at the worker protections and environmental protections and until we have some details, we can't make an educated decision. i look forward to those details as do my fresh men colleagues do. -- as do my freshmen colleagues. mr. pappas: chris pappas from new hampshire. put us on the ball -- what is wonderful is we are close to the ground and these are so essential to make sure that congress is always embodying and reflecting and translating the voices of the people of this country. in my district, we ben

argentina focused on three priorities, which are priorities for us all, the future of work, infrastructure development, and sustainable food. these priorities aligned well with the g-7 summit last june,

and i hope we can work in a priority way. >> and your priority? >> my priority is infrom struck family. rastructure, making things better are or lu be different than be different republicans? >> i would hope we can get vice partisan support. but if we don't. i will make sure that we are making those investments that upset working people in our country. >> explain why the operations process is set up the way it is. and can you meet the deadline of passing 12 spending bills that the appropriations committee has not been able to get at least to the floor for a vote in many, many years? >> well, no question that we can pass 12 appropriation bills. they passed five. six bills that have not been passed yet are ready to go to go, bipartisan. and the one bill homeland security, there seems to be some discussion with the white house. and we can get a continuing resolution for that one. but i look forward to finishing our work, working with my friend from both sides of the aisle and getting our job done. this is what we were elected to do. >> your counterpa

host: your priorities? guest: infrastructure, helping working families, education, healthcare, making life better for working people. host: with a democrat in the chair, how will things be different from the republicans? guest: i would hope we can get bipartisan support, but if we don't, i will move ahead and make sure that we are making those investments that affect working people in our country. host: explain why the appropriations process is set up the way it is, and can you meet the deadline of passing 12 spending bills that the appropriations committee has not been able to get at least to the floor for a vote in many years? guest: there's no question that we can pass 12 appropriations bills. we passed five. six bills that have not been passed yet are ready to go, bipartisan. and the one bill, homeland security, there seems to be some discussion with the white house and we can get a continuing resolution for that. i look forward to finishing our work, working with my friends on both sides of the aisle a

we've got six priorities. the first priority is to use this as our blueprint for our conduct on the committee. the second thing to make sure that we continue to get our bills out, authorization bills, that's what we did, the committee i chair, to get it out early. because quite often it doesn't get out early. we have to have it out and we're committed to getting it out before the end of the fiscal year which is october 1. now, we're going to do this, this is not a problem. because we did it last year. it's true that i didn't take over this position until just a few months ago, three months ago, i guess. but i was also doing it on an acting basis before that. we got busy and we set a record on getting our defense authorization bill out. i think it's the quickest in 40 years. so we're not going to have a problem doing that. there's a reason we have to do that. we have to get out of this mindset of c.r.'s. if we had a c.r. right now it would be a disaster. talk to any of you guys here know that. we don't want tha

and i was curious to know, are these policy priorities, or investment priorities, or wish lists of things that we just care about in san francisco. >> these are primarily priorities that the public wanted the bank to cover. mostly in these cases, it is around landing, but the original list included the broader program. >> i do remember the original. we kind of took everyone's suggestions. at what point will we whittle it down and really start to focus on tangible and reachable goals? >> we try to do that particularly for the first two around affordable housing and small business lending. molly did some work saying okay, we want to do affordable housing what does that mean? what could the bank actually do? and talking to folks like enterprise and choo-choo and banks, and other folks understand what exists today in the market place where does how do the gaps aligned with some of the city's priorities around affordable housing and how can we use some of the city's relationships to pair with city run banks to achieve some of those outcomes? getting as specific as okay. will present things. we

at the top of a long list of priorities. folks in my district are concerned about the way the border and immigrants are treated. especially by this administration. we need to restore compassion and humanity to the way retreat people and the way we do with public policy. we have to take care of our planet and address the escalating climate change challenge that we face. gun safety. families, parents, they want to feel the kids are going into a safe place when they send them to school. and they deserve that. finance reform, people are tired of a congress that is ruled by dark money. there is a long list of things to accomplish and i'm excited about getting to it. >> what reaction did you get from constituents in your district? >> they were wonderful. el paso has some of the warmest most loving people. i would knock on doors -- if it was cold outside, it is too cold, where your jacket, come in. there was a wonderful memory that sticks out, my sun was home from college and my daughter was visiting out-of-town but my sun was home

well, to life where your work, priority placement. please help our dedicated teachers stay in san francisco. please don't do the american thing and spend a lot of money to bring people here while the troops need your help. one great teacher -- >> thank you. >> -- can affect the lives of thousands of students. >> thank you. >> thank you. [inaudible] >> is it -- >> that's it? okay. can you hear me now? okay. my name is iris weiss. i'm a special education teacher, and i taught for ten years at washington high school. i have two children, 4.5, and i have a baby at home who's nine months. and i, like everybody else has spoken, would like to stay in san francisco and we're doing our best to make it work with -- with the child care and preschool and school and so when zula was ready for preschool, it was really difficult to fill out those -- we had to apply to so many preschools, it felt like applying to college. i actually had to write essays to some of the private schools. it would be nice if that wasn't a necessity if there was an assuran

our first priority, enhancing u.s. economic ties with the region, is not only essential to improving opportunities for american workers and businesses, but it's also vital to safe guarding the economic independence of african states and protecting u.s. national security interests. great power competitors, namely china and russia, are rapidly expanding their financial and political influence across africa. they are deliberately and aggressively targeting their investments in the region to gain a competitive advantage over the united states. from 2016 to '17, china's foreign direct investment toward africa totaled $6.4 billion. over the past several years, china has devoted considerable state directed and state supported financing to projects in the region. china uses bribes, opec agreements, and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands. it's investment ventures are riddled with corruption and do not meet the same environmental or ethical standards as u.s. developmental p

we're not where we need to be, but it is a priority for the department and it will continue to be a priority for us. >> we need to work on this department. we need to work on the department of public health. >> when we get our diversity recruiter and develop a tool kit, we'll share it with all departments, and we'll absolutely reach out to public health. i do think we should think about growing our own workforce and promoting people from within and getting training so they can stay with the city. it will be a more stable workforce for us. they won't leave for other job, and we can benefit from people who have long services at the city. there used to be programs back, i think when there was more of a nursing shortage where people -- we had programs to support people going from, let's say, nurse's assistant to lvn or from lvn to rn. i would like to talk to the department to see if there are resources to support that. >> mr. greg wagner, i want to acknowledge that i know this is not a reflection of you and your priorities. you've been on the finance side of the house and have recently stepped i

what will be your priorities? > the first priority is a very important one to resolve the spending limits for the fiscal budget. i say that because we revert to under the budget control act of 2011 and if we don't make defense spending would e cut by 11% and nondefense spending by 9%. those are pretty dramatic cuts very e country would feel severely. that is item number one is to for that new caps year. after that, we have budget reflect not hat just democratic values but the promises we made during the the "for the people" ampaign where we deal with healthcare cost an jobs through infrastructure and that will those. >> what will the numbers look like for health care? now.'m not sure right one thing we need to do, and partially because we have a caucus and now it is more diverse with 66 new consult witheed to all of them to see what their that is is re and what i have done with the alternative budget the last few chairman, gain as consult with all segments, all aucus, all committee chairs to see what their priorit

and those that have come together over the past two years to build on the efforts and with this priority to reevaluate the experience to focus more clearly on job creation we have the commissioner of us customs border protection of which the panel of experts and me will take your questions with no cards. >> the commissioner is responsible for leading the largeste law enforcement agency in the country and is also the second largest revenue collecting source for the federal government. he oversees 60000 employees and manages a budget of over $13 billion in his department and agency with $4 trillion of trade through ports of entry. this is a real mandate a real portfolio and is the real deal but it's important to recognize your reach. so with perspectives on these issues are guided with real time understanding so it is a pleasure to begin the program. the commissioner of us border protection. [applause] >> mister commissioner a lot is going on as we just noted how do we frame these issues help us frame this conversation. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here today and though we apprec

and to have the opportunity to talk about joint priorities so yes i am very optimistic. so with the understanding of the regional migration now it is a destinationa country. balancing those aspects with the development of central america i think is a shared goal. >> mentioning nicaragua there is a question about the canada us border. >> so can you spend a minute with the border protection side? can you spend a moment just to tell us for the northern border how it could be the same or different quick. >> we have one priority on both borders with ports of entry with investment infrastructure those are economic gateways that are under resourced and to make some time over the last couple years but we need a lot of investment to facilitate this huge volume of trade. very optimistic about implementation mexico and canada as a successor to nafta. and important enhancements from a customs perspective. but with canada we continue to be very strong leading those agencies globally as they share our approach and terms of inspection of ports of entry and we try to enhance that with a

my role is to be able to help a diverse set of political ideologies to understand the priority we face today about the common interests of the democratic iranian future. i don't have to take a position on whether someone is a socialist or conservative or monarchist or republican or federalist or centrist, what have you. that is not my role. my role is to help as much dialogue and unity of purpose to what is today our first and foremost priority, liberating our homeland. there will be ample time to debate and that is not my cup of tea. political parties will form, they will debate policy. as a result, governments will be formed. the composition of parliament will be changed, as we have seen in this country over the midterm elections, for instance. that is like in any other democratic country. therefore, it is not my role to by virtue ofon and that understanding, you should not expect my family to, either. my daughters, the way she can, my mother. we are here to support our compatriots. at the end of the day, if you are talking about what future form iran will have, that is something the

one of the issues that emerged on the campaign that the new class of house democrats have the priorities with the integrity of government. that is our for the people agenda. lower health care costs, bigger paychecks, integrity in government. for a while now, congressman john sarbanes of maryland has been working on that initiative. h.r. 1, that was signed by so many, the first order of business when we come here. the impact of that will be transformative to congress when we reduce the role of money, amplify the voice of every american so they know that their voices matter. i'm very pleased to see the energy and entrepreneurial spirit that our new members are bringing, and want to acknowledge that we are joined by representative-elect dean phillips of minnesota. ron escobar of texas. mary scanlon from pennsylvania, already sworn in. she has seniority. [laughter] rep. pelosi: andy craig from minnesota. tom malinowski of new jersey. chris pappas of new hampshire. susan wilde of pennsylvania. susan is already sworn in. when you are sworn in by yourself like that, you have hundreds of guests

argentina focused on priorities, which are priorities for us all. the future of work, infrastructure developing. and sustainable food. these priorities aligned well with those of the g-7 summit in quebec last june where we worked hard to create economic systems that benefit everyone and strengthen the middle class. i would like to congratulate argentina for bringing a perspective of gender equality to our talks. we know that our economies and society are stronger when women are full and equal participants. over our today's here, i have reiterated canada's commit bits to multilateralism, on trade, on climate, and other challenges we share. indeed, no country can solve global problems on its own. we need to work together. offers us a critically important forum for doing so. as you may know, canada played a leading role in the creation of the g20 as well as its elevation to the leaders level in 2008. in the midst of the international financial crisis. over the years, this form has repeated be demonstrated its worth as we seek to build a more stable and

something to make the health care system more of a true market here are five specific things in priority order. >> on the new york times podcast said to overturn the affordable care act it is in shambles and leaving mister alexander to pick up the pieces. >> the truth is most health insurance, what he is talking about is the individual market. most people have health insurance 60 percent have it on the job we don't hear too many complaints the rest of medicare medicaid five or 6 percent have individual market half of those have subsidies you don't hear about that so 3 percent of the people making 60000 spending 24 self-insurance we had a plan to fix that senator schumer said it was good enough and we can pass that anytime the democrats want to vote for it that was reinsurance and cost-sharing subsidies given the space more flexibility without changing the essential health benefits. are very good policy and the various groups that might reduce the cost of insurance 40 percent per year but i don't want to get stuck in the next years health insurance the democrats have elevated to the 67th

he treated it as quite a priority.hen i i came over to the senae side, i was one of the people that everybody trusted in the room among the staff because i worked for both sides. and it was a hill initiative. it was a congressional initiative, and you had folks like dennis hastert, ben gilman take the lead on the outside over here, paul coverdale, senator dodd participated, and senator hellmann's as well. it was very much folks like the people sitting behind you who dug in on these issues and work them for a long time and established relationships with people and who identified folks in colombia that we could work with, and started sort of a a tactical approach. and then the folks in the state department responded. pete romero took the ball and ran with this, and they helped the colombians come up with an answer to the question, how do we have a response? was really both engaged but it was congress really pushing and insisting that we go with real money. as one of the chairman at the time said, make no small plans pick

working on commercial fraud and making that a priority.as much money is laundered through little bit trade, and they're involved in cryptocurrency as we talked about, and some of the lack of transparency and beneficial ownership as far as corporations makes it difficult for us to assert what true ownership there is in a business and be able to sees assets. i think capacity building, overseas with our partners, building their capacity for financial investigative efforts, and their ability to engage in asset forfeitureture, would be -- would give us the biggest bang for our buck. >> thank you very much. thank you all for being here, and helping us understand this problem, and providing some good answers, and food for thought. for further action. there is another vote on so we'll excuse the first panel, and go vote and come back, and take up the second panel, thank you, we'll be in adjournment m..

in terms of priority, i think you need to make homeland, defense of the homeland the priority. that's what the ground-based interceptors are about. but these new, like this example, this standard missile three block 2-a does have an intercontinental ballistic missile kill capability that we can bring online very quickly and can be launched from ships, from egis to shore. there are things that we can do to start to help us relative to the capacity. the capacity or the magazine is sometimes the term used in the military. that does take budget. that does take money. it takes the department of defense making that a priority, taking that to congress. morgan: to that point, senator kyl, it's really fascinating, when you look at the history of missile defense. it's almost been like. this like it or not, that wave has sort of been ridden, based largely on politics. so i think it begs the question, how do active missile defenses contribute to deterrence? touched on it before, but to dig into it more. mr. kyl: it's politics but it's also been the threat. once the soviet union collapsed,

our third priority, therefore, is ensuring that all u.s. assistance dollars sent to africa are used efficiently and effectively to advance peace, stability, independence, and prosperity in the region. here are some of the specific bold actions we will take under our new strategy to address the three priority areas i have just highlighted. to expand our economic relationships in the region we're developing a new initiative called prosper africa which will support u.s. investment across the continent, grow africa's middle class, and improve the overall business climate in the region. in addition, we will encourage african leaders to choose high-quality, transparent, inclusive and sustainable foreign investment projects, including those from the united states. we will leverage our expanded and modernized development tools to support access to financing and provide strong alternatives to external state-directed initiatives. america's vision for the region is one of independence, self-reliance and growth, not dependency, domination and debt. we

it needs to be more of a priority fossil fuel business, the government's priority remains to secure a 14 weeks to go a responsible government is preparing for the eventuality that we leave without a deal, that is the responsible thing for the government do, that is what we agreed around you will see an increase in the communications to businesses. mps can't agree on much right now but apart from a few who say no deal is nothing to fear, stopping that scenario is something parliament could build a consensus round, for now there is frustration from mps on all sides though, that they won't be able to consider other options unfill they have voted on the prime minister's deal well after the christmas break. this house has no confidence in this prime minister... jeremy corbyn accused the prime minister of running down the clock so minister of running down the clock so mps have little choice but to vote for her deal, and called for a symbolic vote against her. silly games according to downing street so when would labour push for a confidence vote in the government that could craig trigger an

that top priority for the democrats? that raises the top rate. that is a big component of the reason because he got rid of salt new york and connecticut in california and new jersey i still pay california taxes and my taxes went up significantly. we are very sensitive to the impact of the big part of the economy. and it is a major reason to lower the top rate. with some of the impact was something that was very important. >> so can we leave the markets here? we are concerned about the economy right now the tax increase is off the table crack. >> i have not heard anyone suggest otherwise. >> so let's get some questions. >> anybody over here? . >> secretary with the negotiation with china you talked about with those dropping in to date was 800 points what about the next 90 days have an impact with the negotiation with the administration quick. >> i don't think it will have a big impact and from my perspective, first of all, i do think we have a lot more market volatility in general because of the amount of electronic trading and trading programs th

i would say last year there was a big priority for the president to increase military spending. we agreed with the democrats to increase nonmilitary spending. there is plenty of money to go around with a nonmilitary spending to allocate some chunk of that to infrastructure. gary cohen who i just saw worked on that part last year tried to get it done but last year it wasn't that there wasn't enough money it was the democrats priorities where they wanted to put it. but i can tell you this is something i constantly speak to the president about he wants to do infrastructure spending so i am hopeful with the new congress we figure out a new way to do that with the democrats and we will figure out a way to pay for it i say other government savings as opposed to increasing taxes on everybody. >> what about the individual? that is a high priority every democrat says that top rate crack. >> the democrats that i speak to it is a big proponent of the reason why and for people in new york or connecticut california new jersey and i still pay california taxes my taxes went up significantly. w

which am grateful for that's a priority. how do you know how you're doing against that priority? what are your goals? >> lippy talk about the national situation that we face. first of all, i was responsible for the department of defense -- >> i have limited time at a don't want your anecdote. i want to hear a goalspirit and not been given anecdote. 14 of the 20 veterans who died either own hands every day or outside of v.a. >> correct. we have known that years. we spent $12.2 million on the outreach just in the time i believe that i've been in charge, which is just a few months, but i had to go beyond what that gao report says. talked with governor brown, talk with other governors. i am busy. >> if it is your priority what is your goal and how are you doing against your goal? i'm not blaming you for world we are. >> the goal, the goal is to do our best to make sure that we've done everything possible speed is never be able to judge you. >> that's right. the majority, the majority of those warriors who take their own lives come from my fathers wore your generation. that means is t

with a new confident government place in mexico, which views joint efforts in central america as a priority, it's timely to re-evaluate the approach and incorporate best practices from recent experience and focusing more clearly on reform that promote job creation and work force development security and anticorruption. to explore these complex issues we are pleased to be joined we kevin mcaleenan. the commissioner of u.s. customs and border protection, and a group of panelists withexplore the question in greater depth. we'll have note cards and we ask you to put your questions on those and we'll collect them. commissioner is responsible for lead thing country's largest law enforcement agency. i didn't know that actually. before we set this up, and he is also the second largest revenue collecting source for the federal government. i suppose the first is the irs. >> that would be true. >> very good. he oversees 60,000 employees, manages a budget of over $13 billion. and his department and agency facilitates some $4 trillion in trade and the travel of over 365 million people through u.s. ports

the chinese will listen to priority number one. they will listen less at priority number two. so, we have to make some choices about that. a lot the liked emphasis on addressing these threats and alliance framework. if you think about it, if russia a natoth 10 columns into country, we would all together and there is a plan. if australia was somehow attacked, we would know in the context of the treaty what to do here at but when australia's democracy has been disrupted to some degree by chinese cyber activity, that was not just an australian thing. there is intelligence sharing but the response was a domestic matter. had its own cyber compromises by the russians, it was a french matter, not a nato matter, yet what is more threatening to our own way of life, our own societies, our own national security than the disruption of the core think that makes us distinctive which is our democratic political process. so, i think it has to beat out with in an alliance framework. >> not only in an alliance framework but in an extended deterrence commitment. >> exactly. >> we did want to ope