to ensure that congress, when it appropriates money, has the final say in how that money is distributed. and the defense department, the state department, whoever else are the distributors of that money know that process well. and in this case they cannot legally hold that money back just whimsically, and that's what appears to have been the sort of graveman of what she was saying. this hold back without any explanation, without use of the interagency process or congressional consideration was an illegal act. that's why you saw the testimony the other week from the omb person saying, look, i'm not going to sign off on this because it's not lawful as far as i'm concerned. so they brought on a political person to do the signing off on it. >> what's fascinating, too, as we look at all of this is that from the beginning one of the reasons that we were given was the reason the aid was held up