diplomacy. >> it is broader than that. 80% of the positions that are required for senate confirmation have not even been submitted. i just camed from an armed services committee hering where the secretary of the airforce office, i think there is like 7 preside presidential appointments, and only one has been sent to be confirmed. i have not seen lately, but there is no second echelon of leadership in the state didn't. we don't have the expertise if there is a real crisis. so this is this has nothing to do with politics, and this is not the senate holding things up, or the democrats holding things up, the nominees just