if you bluster. >> let me bring you in here because i had a lengthy conversation with a senior gop lawmaker, very much a hawk on the hill, saying they were worried. they don't think the president's speech was strong enough. they don't think the strikes were broad and impressive enough to send a long-term message. >> well, hopefully -- >>i'm sorry, jason. >> sorry, shannon. hopefully, what they did is actually did deplete the ability to deliver the chemical weapons. if we knew there were chemical weapons in those places, why didn't we go preemptively take that out? i think bringing in france and the uk does send the right message. it begs the question, where are our other partners? where are places like germany? why weren't they with us?