The Phantom Menace Review2009

Plinkett:
Just tell'em to leave and that you don't want to negotiate, and then when their ship flies out of the space dock, shoot it with lasers! Also, we need to consider the fact that killing two Jedi that were sent there as peaceful ambassadors would be a pretty heinous crime in the eyes of the galactic senate, an organization that runs everything. Including space taxes. I mean, you could just claim they never got there.

Nute Gunray:
I know nothing of any ambassadors.

Senator Palpatine:
I have assurances from the chancellor the Jedi did arrive.

Plinkett:
But now you've got the burned wreckage of their ship inside your horribly burned docking bay.