wait to be seen. can you imagine for one minute if i had told my patients i can move you up in line and take care of your pain but i do need a favor from you. my patients were in pain and they were desperate and they would have agreed to do anything i asked. this would have been such an abuse of my position because of the power dynamic. i had the power to relieve my patients from experiencing pain. it is fundamentally wrong and in many cases illegal for us to use power to take advantage of those in crisis. especially a president, especially when lives are at stake. i yield back. >> the gentle lady yields back. mr. ratcliffe. >> thank you, chairman. professor turley, i would like to start where you started because you said something that i think bears repeating. you said i'm not a supporter of president trump. i voted against him in 2016 and i have previously voted for