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no bull and the aftermath.

This was a thoughtful process.

The military piece of this run out of the Pentagon largely, but state department was fully

involved in the strategic pieces of this and I am very confident that our mission to

deter Russia, the NATO mission to deter Russia, we are still fully capable of executing.

And there comes a point where you're spending half a billion dollars of US taxpayer money

a year on year that goes to benefit political actors inside the World Health Organization

and we ultimately made the conclusion that we were more likely to achieve the global health

security issues that the United States cares about deeply if we did not participate any

further in the World Health Organization.

I am not at all convinced that it will be China that benefits from that.

I'm convinced that the world will benefit.

We saw it with PEPFAR, we've seen it with Gavi, we've seen it at other places when the

United States leads and we will absolutely lead.

What things can happen in the international health realm?

Can a president delay a presidential election?

Senator, the, the, the, and the Department of Justice others will, will, will make that

legal determination.

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