advisor to the gore 2000 campaign and the kerry/edwards campaign in 2004. he is now a professor at new york university. you say in this may be a week where the president earns his presidency. what do you mean? >> well, he has to earn it. he has to deal with the saudis, he has to help the japanese, and they did a brilliant job yesterday in terms of supporting the japanese so that the yen doesn't get out of control and the flows can continue, and then libya, you know, he took a lot of criticism for being too passive. and i think john kerry was right, john mccain from the beginning, we should have a no-fly zone. but what he's achieved is remarkable. the arab league has called for it, we got china and russia not to veto it. this is one of the first times the u.n. security council's ever worked the way franklin roosevelt thought it was supposed to work. and i think now we're going to see real burden sharing with the french and british carrying a lot of the weight here. jon: you don't think it's too late? a lot of observe observers say