don't send forces into harm's way. if you going to mount a rescue or military operation these things require a lot of planning. we don't know whether there were any plans on the shelf that they could have called on to do this. it doesn't explain the possibility that your questions to the earlier panel raised which is were the drones armed. was the drone armed. could we have gotten air support in that way? my sense is the president made this call. it makes sense that he would. that it would be a big enough deal that would have to go to him. and the decision not to go for whatever reason was made by him. but he won't tell us. and no one else seems willing to tell us. i think it is therefore likely that the answer is something that it worries the white house would hurt politically. >> chris: it was interesting. in our conversation with the four senators, juan, you could see the two republicans johnson and portman really trying to make an issue of this.