Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll try to be brief.
Let me simply start by saying it seems that the plan of action you've chosen to take has a fatal flaw in it. First of all, we've lost valuable days. If you start counting from Thursday, when my motion passed, that's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday now, and it'll be Thursday, at the minimum. That's eight days lost, when we're up against a hard deadline.
But there would be a hollow victory at best with the course of action you're recommending in that if, by some miracle, we get Mr. Schreiber here on Thursday at 11 o'clock, it will be for one day under the course of action that you've contemplated, because the extradition order would still stand and the deadline would still be there.
The course of action that I recommended from day one, and have implored you, begged you, to adopt was to go the Speaker's warrant route, with two warrants. One is to—