missile over in russia. this is a president now who saw our military decimated under the obama administration. he stood up, he's rebuilding our military, he is putting us in a position where we can defend ourselves and our allies around the world and our enemies know it. >> jason: kim, there's been a lot of discussion over the last week with the moves in syria or whatnot but this is also just about iran? the proximity cannot get lost. we hear almost nothing being mentioned about iran and the message that this might send toa the iranians and the europeans and others about our position on iran. how do you read into that? >> that is why that was so important, because, coming on the backg of the announcements about syria and afghanistan, the worry was, of course, that the message that was being sent to iran was that we were not certain about our commitment in key areas in that region. and by going there, by making it clear we are not withdrawing