You can't have this conversation without saying, you know, we took six or seven weeks away from this conversation while we had this silly shutdown. We wasted valuable, valuable time. These conversations were going on before the shutdown. They totally stopped during the shutdown. But even under that, in the best of circumstances, these are complicated issues that you're not just going to be able to throw out there in a couple of weeks. (07:38–07:43)
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