international franchise association ceo robert cresanti joins us now on the phone. robert, thanks for being with us given the fact that you were present for this meeting with the president yesterday, what was your message and what did that conversation entail >> i could just say that thank you so much for having me on, morgan, and for your entire team you know our message was simple, the majority of franchise owners are small business owners, hundreds of thousands of whom are seeking revenue, you know, for their businesses we're seeing it shrink at an unprecedented rate and we need relief now, as quickly as possible. small business es both in the restaurant sector and other sectors like home improvement and gyms and hair salons have no customers walking through the door and a lot of fixed costs in place and therefore there is no cash flow. you saw cramer talk about this earlier. this is why ifa along with our members need the federal government to step in and increase liquidity to those small businesses fast and i have been, you know, this has been -- i just can't sa