under their own constitutional system and we under ours are trying to fill in that space, fill in that gap. >> you say the french are even more aggressive thaten the united states, huh? >> oh, yeah no they really are. yet they remain a democracy. and i'm not implying anything by that. they draw this line about public safety more aggressively than we do. >> let's talk about the attack in texas. are you worried about isis claiming responsibility? >> not particularly other than it's kind of what we expected. i know you had tom on earlier talking about this. this wasn't directed by isis. if anything it was inspired by them. it was trying to put out aspirational directives that if that word makes sense then you got the disaffected who sign up to do these things. joe, i unfortunately have to say this is kind of in the band that we expected. these sorts of things would be like when they happened here in north america. >> mike. >> general, your reference to