The obama administration, and so the officials who got this directive felt very uneasy, and they began looking around for allies. dan fried, who had been the u.s. coordinator for sanctions policy, was still there, and they reached out to him. tom mol now ski who had step the down as assistant secretary for human rights, they reached out to him as well. and they began an effort to block the administration from going too quickly in this arena. >> so what's interesting here is that when you look at the actual policy, right, so they essentially successfully defeated this initiative to the extent i...