have evacuated. the brits evacuated everyone from their embassy in yemen. and they believe that they were fortifying those embassies, those posts, consulates, that could be well defended, baghdad and kabul, reopened. but that these others not only in the muslim world but others, the 19 that remain closed, could not be properly defended. i think, rachel, this is not just post-9/11. this is post-benghazi. that's partly what this is all about. >> who makes the decision to do something as dramatic as what happened in yemen today? putting in that c-17, taking out almost everybody from the country, is that the president's call or is that the secretary of state's call? who does that? >> it is a combination. it is the national security council. susan rice has a lot to do with this. she is now sitting at the head of the table in all of these meetings whether they are on the phone or, you know, literally in