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I was just going to give some facts and I'm sure Brady's going to rain it too. I have actually looked into this. Gray and I was kind of texting a little bit on it yesterday. Trump invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. Okay, so that's a law. It was a law made in 1973. The law permits the President to take temporary action to the district of Columbia. The law permits the President to take temporary control of D.C. of the police department during emergencies for up to 30 days. In the past 30 days, Congress has to approve any hand-appointed national armed troops reporting to law. Because unlike the states, D.C. is not a state, it's a district. It's really congressionally controlled, quite supposedly. So the D.C. National Guard is actually under exclusive presidential authority. So it's a little tricky though because the Home Rule Act does allow local self-governance. So the law allows D.C. to govern itself, but it retains congressional oversight. And in emergencies or presidential oversight, they can't be taken over. The mostly comatose act, I can't say that word right, and the Indirection Act actually restricts using the troops for domestic law enforcement. But the D.C. Guard is in a unique status, legally speaking. So it isn't automatically bound by that act in the same way. That's how they can call up the national armed troops in D.C. anytime they need to. I mean, they did it after Jay Diggs, you know, there's just lots of things. This is going to be a core battle. Again, it's a presidential authority thing. Does he have the right versus should he have the right? Yeah, it's going to be a big mess. But that's basically the fact of what has legally gone on so far. KJ5, I hope you back to the, uh, I'm going to send you feedback. I'll list you all, I mean, I'm listening, so if you call back, I'll call you back now. I'll call you back. Thank you, please.