 So he's going to hold it here about 15 minutes, folks. Let me look at that character's meeting. He's done. He's going to hold this. So you are welcome to stay or go. So you are welcome to stay or go. Right now. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good to see my colleague. See you. Trying to get a press job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We were down there for retreat last February. Somebody came in and stayed. And they had this ring, you wouldn't believe. And it was jacked up like one of those Mercedes. It was jacked up like it was something. So they had just come out of the keys. They had just come out of the keys. They had just come out of the keys. Wow. So I feel bad. I was down in Georgia. And the guy at the airport was helping us out. He was his last day. He was retiring. He drives that American trail that goes from North Carolina to Tennessee. It's an off-road trail. I have to think about it. It's pretty nice. It's not called America's Trail, but it's said. It goes from North Carolina to Virginia through Tennessee. It's a cross-country trail. He's about to open it up. It's hard to find. Every now and again I get a good shot. It goes all over the place. Yeah. Somebody takes care of me. I can't make it in here. I'm like Jean Lelafel. The speaker will speak. I guess no yesterday. I was home for Thanksgiving. And they had said the day I caught Thanksgiving that there was .06. And they said typically it would be 7 inches of snow. And they said last on the year prior. And then she's got a guy who does the back of the car. She's got a guy who does the back of the car. And then she's got a guy who does the back of the car. I just had a good meeting with President Zelensky. I reiterated to him that we stand with him and against Putin's brutal invasion. The American people stand for freedom. And they're on the right side of this fight. I have asked the White House since the day that I was handed the gavel as speaker for clarity. We need a clear articulation of the strategy to allow Ukraine to win. And thus far their responses have been insufficient. They have not provided us the clarity and the detail that we requested over and over since literally 24 hours after I was handed the gavel as speaker of the House. And so what the Biden administration seems to be asking for is billions of additional dollars with no appropriate oversight, no clear strategy to win, and none of the answers that I think the American people are owed. I have also made very clear from day one that our first condition on any national security supplemental spending package is about our own national security first. The border is an absolute catastrophe. And this is because of the policies of this White House and this administration. We had 12,000 illegal crossings on one day last week alone, on Wednesday. We have almost now 280 known terrorists that have been apprehended at the border. None of this counts the gotaways. If you add the numbers up it's almost 7 million people who have been apprehended at the border just since President Biden took office and at least 2 million gotaways. This is twice the population of my state of Louisiana. Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 49 in this country. Fentanyl poisoning because it's allowed over the border. We have human trafficking and all the other terrible things. In the last three months, October and November, December alone, we've had more illegal crossings at the border than in any entire year during the Obama administration. The American people see this, they feel it acutely, they see all the terrible societal ills that come from this and it must be addressed. So I've made this very clear again from the very beginning when I was handed the gavel. We needed clarity on what we're doing in Ukraine and how we'll have proper oversight of the spending of precious taxpayer dollars in the American citizens and we needed a transformative change at the border. Thus far, we've gotten neither. The Senate has been MIA on this. The House HR2, six months ago, more than six months ago, it's been sitting and collecting dust on Chuck Schumer's desk. I have told him personally, I have told the National Security Advisor, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, that these are our conditions because these are the conditions of the American people and we are resolute on that. It is not the House's issue right now, the issue is with the White House and the Senate and I implore them to do their job because the time is urgent and we do want to do the right thing here. With that, thank you very much.