pentagon producer courtney cubey and nbc important keir simmons who has done extensive coverage of the civil war in syria. was just there a short time ago. colonel, let me start with you, sir. i want to play just a snippet of something senator lindsey graham said to andrea mitchell just recently. >> this is an incremental change. it will not change the conditions on the ground. in the eyes of the enemy, this is weakness. >> senate graham, of course more hawkish than most. but what say you to what he said there, is that accurate? >> yeah, i think it's an incremental change and i think we're going to have more incremental changes too. i think the secretary of defense de telegraphed that and josh earnest also in the briefing today suggested this might not be the last word. they're trying to do a number of