assistance -- first we don't know what money he's talking about, whether foreign aid and assistance or defense military sales or what, but whatever it is, we do those things for our own benefit and for the benefit of our allies and partners. we spend that money to help enhance security and stability in other places around the world so that those problems don't migrate elsewhere. so we, the united states, have a stake and a vote in how policies and programs in those countries go forward. when you cut off that funding -- i don't believe he's going to do this poppy, but if he did you basically remove america's influence and interests in those parts of the world and open up a vacuum where other countries like russia and china, when talking about africa, would gladly step in and fill our shoes and again then we lose even more influence in what is going on in those parts of the world. it's incredibly self-defeating and childlike. >> it's important to note this is symbolic, this does not have teeth, however the vote goes, doesn't change things. we know how this vote is going