of this, but the removal of a high-level russian asset, does -- i mean, if it's -- if it's true that the person had been in place for ten years, that seems like an extraordinary amount of time, and i imagine the danger just increases with each passing year. does it leave a void if somebody like that ---ion, i ioyou know, exfiltrated. >> yeah, of course it would leave a void, anderson. but i prefer to focus on three important successes of this reported exfiltration. and like steve, i can't confirm it, because i simply don't know, which is also good news. if someone like i were aware of this operation, that would be a bad thing. but first, the fact that we had a source like this. i sometimes questions whether we continue to be as successful against russia in the counterterrorism age, and apparently, we have been. and so i think we have to first salute this success of this operation to go on as long as it did in such extraordinary,