 Excellent. Well, thank you very much for joining us, Mario. That was Mario Mancuso, former Pentagon official and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. And a quick look at the top stories we're working on at WTOP. More Democrats are breaking rank and requesting that President Biden drops out of the election. And voters in France are heading to the polls in a consequential runoff election. Keep it here for full details on these stories in the minutes ahead.