then we ll turn back sure. this was a subject of much discussion within the state department. there was a lot of frustration by people who were willing to talk to people like me and other reporters because this was not being done. the money was actually lodged for budgetary purposes in the pentagon. it had to be requested. and tillerson hadn t even requested the money. it wasn t until a spate of stories, washington post, politico came out that the two co-sponsors of this bill, chris murphy and rob portman threw a fit essentially and wrote a bunch of letters saying, we want to know what you ve been doing, why hasn t this been moving forward. so, it seemed that that did, in fact, jar a little bit of action and he put some people to work. but as you ve seen, this appears to be more smoke and mirrors rather than substance. and you do have to wonder is this just more in the other story of state department dysfunction, which we all have been following, or is this part of trump s soft spo