What do you think actually happened?

Well, I think the speculation from the Wall Street Journal is really in the area, but it's been going on for a long time.

Just let's look at the visit.

The visit is dramatic.

It's the first time a CIA director has been in during the conflict, although one of his predecessors, William Burns, went to Moscow in 2021 just prior to the invasion to persuade try and persuade the Russians not to invade Ukraine.

There have been these kinds of contacts to get prisoner, prisoner exchanges, and that has been done by agency to agency.

But this seems to be something really rather different because it was short, swift, dramatic and serious.

If you know, you Vrbo.

Uh, to date, we're a little under fifty percent deployed in fund one, doing exactly that, the, uh, non-discretionary services roll-ups.

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Robert Fox.

Um, as, um, head of the emerging manager program at McGuireWoods, um, not only do we lead the, um, you know, the conference, which has become very well known for, you know, connecting LPs and emerging managers with their fundraises, um, I also am speaking a majority of my day-to-day with LPs like Liz and others, really getting a pulse on, you know, what is going on in the marketplace.

Aside from that, we see a lot of deal activities.

You can imagine being a law firm, um, we see the deal activity, we see the fundraise activity, and so forth.

Um, all that to kind of lay the foundation that this year has been remarkably busy.

It's taken, you know, six years or so, but, uh, now I think, like, the in-person meetings are super helpful.

But what does all of this do when it comes to sort of UK-US, UK-US-Ukrainian relations as we go forward?

The wish is the father of the thought.

It makes the UK more European.

That's the interesting thing, because they've got Nigel Farage completely entangled with an industrial dustbin.

And somebody said, what's the epitaph on Nigel Farage in Clacton with this? They say, Nigel has been.

So he's tied up with that.

I think I'm...

Are they at fault for it being a basket case?