up with a sound strategy, we're in a vulnerable situation. they have a lot of authority and scope to do anything necessary. question one, implied if you didn't even actually state that you thought the administration had made mistakes, miss the vote, would love to hear about that. second you said at a minimum we should cooperate with the russians. at that minimum, what should we do for the best we can which is not a great position for us? >> we should be communicating with them. i think the operation question is one we got to hash out. look, on the administration side the president started this war with the bombing campaign august 8, 2014, to defend an american embassy and reveal and protect against a humanitarian atrotsty in the area of northern iraq. there was a self-defense rational. within two weeks, the protect the american side of this was done and at that point the president's legal authority in my view expired and you can't go