And, you know, you think about those type of services, how AI would so profoundly be able to assist that and to support it and even to drive it.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think, you know, we are really at the beginning stages in the AI journey, I think, globally.

I saw this morning there were some announcements of some of the biggest brains, if you like, at Google, Gemini, and a couple of other companies, well, mostly Google.

They've all decided to quit, and they've formed another company, in fact, called Discovery Loop.

And it's like some of the biggest brains in the industry, if you like.

These guys are the guys who laid the foundations for of Google.

But as you went through that time then with IDC and then your stint with Microsoft in Middle East, but talking about IDC and then coming back to work with them, What were the changes that you saw that were so prevalent in the customer arena from an evolutionary point of view and an embracement of technology as no longer being just a necessary evil or a nice to have, but being an absolute imperative?

What, what's been the problem?

Yeah, I, I think it comes down sometimes...

I- you know, we don't have, uh, what they call the blue slip for specifically nominees.

Uh, tha- that's more on the legal side with judges and appointments.

But they do have sometimes these gentlemen agreements where if you have one senator, uh, that's maybe pushing back or kind of giving a wink and nod to the chairman of a, in this case the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, uh, they do slow play that out.

Uh, we've got great support.

John Thune's been great, the entire leadership, uh, we have unanimous support across the leadership in the Senate, uh, those on the committee as well.

How could we possibly be in the position to have the president of the United States now, with everything he's got going on, refocus on a guy he nominated that he thought m- m- important enough that he do it at the beginning of the administration? Now we're in December, at the end of the year, he's not done, and now we're gonna have to go through potentially another process, sir.

What's been the problem?

Yeah, I think it comes down sometimes.

You know, we don't have what they call the blue slip for specifically nominees.

That's more on the legal side with judges and appointments.

But they do have sometimes these gentlemen agreements where if you have one senator that's maybe pushing back or kind of giving a wink and nod to the chairman of, in this case, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, they do slow play that out.

We've got great support.

John Thune's been great.

He's not done, and now we're going to have to go through potentially another process, sir.

Why?

Well, you know, I...

I don't know that we have concrete, uh, specific reasons.

I know that they, uh, uh, have, I guess I was reading 300 appointments and, and I'm sure there are a few other ambassadors that are still waiting, but I guess the point that we're trying to make it from an expediting standpoint is, you know, you have people around the world.

This particular position was created in 1998.

Um, and I, uh, Sam Brownback had it in the first Trump administration and we're ready to get started.

to be able to get out there and advocate for people around the world.

But it's not just Nigeria, is it, sir? This is happening around the world.