And then now we're a country where, you know, we graduated 36,000 lawyers last year. We graduated 300 people with mining and metallurgical degrees. I mean, we were, We were the nation's powerhouse on critical minerals in Mining just 30 years ago, just in the 1990s. We were. We were. We were it. We gave all that up. And now, now we're in a position last year where China threatened export controls. (18:56–19:04)
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