from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington broadcast

center.

Yeah, Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty show.

The second mistake pushed back on the idea that the embassy was closed at all.

So if no American is in the embassy, we've essentially closed the embassy.

It sounds like you don't want to say no.

No, we're going to have a, we're going to have a, we're going to have our core diplomatic presence.

We got an, an, an effect an embassy at a location at the airport.

Wow.

That is a rough sentence because we'll have an effect and embassy.

It's already pretty alarming.

Then you finish it off with at a location at the airport.

Perhaps the darkest qualifier in the English language because to state the obvious here, an embassy does not belong in an airport because it's not a f**k wolf gang park restaurant.

Oh my.

We'll have an effect an embassy is already pretty rough.

Yeah, I'd say, I'd say.

What's the value of denying the obvious in government work?

Is it, if, as long as you keep denying the New York Times can't print that you admitted it and therefore you have to go or something, there must be some usefulness to it.

I wonder if it, the people against you were already against you.

The people, you got the true blues on your side, they'll stick with you for whatever.

I guess it's just for that kind of crowd that can be swayed.

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