I want to bring in our senior White House correspondent Garrett Hake who has made his way to the camera there on the north lawn. And Garrett, listen, the president is confirming a piece of reporting that originated from Bloomberg News maybe not an hour ago. Uh and and it made waves obviously because this is a significant escalation now and these tensions that we've been seeing in the Caribbean.The president is now confirming it from the White House. Help help us understand uh sort of how we got here because ...