ports, sell off the goods and turned that new ship into under the french by vijay. so obviously the british were really mad that this was happening and the did want these the ships brought into u.s. ports because that didn't seem very neutral. and genet basically disregarded orders to stop doing this activity and, in fact, was doing it in the port of philadelphia which was about xbox washington's house, so literally right under the president's knows. -- about six blocks. he ordered for about six months to stop these activities and finally he was in an argument with jefferson and he was basically disagreeing with jefferson about who had the power to issue diplomacy policy in the united states. and genet with saint it was congress, and jefferson was saying you are wrong, it's the president. and genet threatened to appeal to the american people and that was hugely disrespectful to washington and that was very disrespectful to the new nation. so when this threat came out, when it was revealed that he said this, washington convened a cabinet meeting and they decided to r