their businesses because of what is playing out here in washington, here in chine that, and the nafta negotiations as well. at would you tell those folks out there who are trying to run these businesses, trying to mak right now. >> the president is trying to do everything he can to protect american farmers, american businesses and he is negotiating with a number of countries, but also the president wants to make sure that we're ending unfair trade practices, the president has said that he wants to help protect farmers and we're looking at a number of different ways to do that. and we're going to continue that throughout this process. peter? >> i'm going to keep going. >> in august you said, he certainly didn't dictate the statement. i wonder if you can tell us the basis of your comment when you made that in august. do you attract those? >> once again, this is a reference back to a letter from the outside council. i understand but it's also pertaining to a letter from the president's outside council, and, therefore i can't answer,