scorn. one who doesn t is thomas massey, who represents the commonwealth of kentucky, and joins us tonight. congressman, thanks for coming on. it seems clear that this story was planted by the u.s. intel agencies, on the a.p. wire, to send another tronch of money to ukraine. that sounds like manipulation by our intel agencies to me. yeah. there s a myth about the nato treaty, that article five is short-circuiting congress responsibility to decide if and when we go to article. article xi says all of the member states have to carry out the other articles in compliance with their own constitutions. our constitution requires not just the senate to confirm a treaty, but for the house and the senate both to agree to commit an act of war or commit our soldiers to war. so that you know, if any of my colleagues here in the house,