yes her extensive foreign experience she explains should be talked about that alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country russia and on our other side the land boundary that we have with ah canada itit its funny that a comment like that was s kinda made to er ummm caret er um i dont know you know it certainly does because ourw our next door neighbours are foreign countries there in the state that that i am the executive of have you ever been involved in any negotiations for example with the russians we have trade missionss back and force we we do its very important when when you consider even nation security issues with russia as puttin rears his head and and ah comes into a the air space of the united states of america were where do they go its its alaska is just right over the boarder it is a from alaska that we sent those out to make sure an eyes being kept on this very powerful nation russia because they are right there they are right next to ah um our state