states senate in the coming week. the commerce department had the right penalty back in april when they announced that because zte had not only violated the u.s. sanctions policy against north korea and iran once, but they did it repeatedly and then when they were caught, they said they were going to come clean and instead, they engaged in a big cover-up and did it again. that's why the commerce department did what it did and that would be the penalty today except for the fact that president trump then tweeted out that he wanted to help zte and help -- help save jobs in china and so -- go ahead. >> here's what the white house said and the view of the white house is this, the view of the white house is that they think this deal ensures that zte pays a pretty penny, right, a billion bucks plus 400 million in escrow for this violation, but they say that it also prevents harm to