was going to announce a military strike, comes out yesterday, i'm going to actually wait. we had -- i talked with kerry about this in the interview. kerry talked about this in very dire terms. he calls assad a thug and a murderer who's slaughtering his own people. the president doesn't call congress back right away and say get to it, let's have a decision in a couple of days, i'm going to take action. he says go ahead with your vacation, with your recess. come back on september 9th. we'll argue about it then. kerry makes the argument that the -- the military people say this is not time sensitive. it's very time sensitive if you're one of the rebels on the ground in syria who may be killed in the next week. >> and what do you think those rebels and the syrian freedom rebels, what do you think they think of this decision? their reaction? and what does it mean to them? >> well, that's the point. you know, and kerry in his statement on friday said this goes beyond syria. the whole world is watching. it's what happens in iran, what happens in hezbollah.