administration is not pursing? >> so this is a give and take on all of these and, you know, at presence i think people are all on the same page. we're going to have a hearing, jake, on thursday at 11:15 and hopefully we'll have a markup on this legislation, either tuesday of next week or thursday and, again, it's pretty fluid right now. people want to speak with one voice, which we all try to do in any kind of foreign policy issue and right now things are constructive. there is not a great deal of pushback. people are floating ideas as to what might work best. and again, we're having conversations with our counterparts in europe to also make sure that to the extent we can, we're on the same page with them because obviously that's much more effective. right now, everything is going along just fine. >> senator corker, thank you so much. >> yes, sir. coming up, a force on the water as warships race to the