but the reporting is there are forces within the white house and within congress pushing for something more than a pinprick strike, pushing for massive follow-up, maybe even manned aircraft. this is the time to drill down on this. can you speak about the specific consequences of that being potentially even more dangerous for us a than iraq was because you have major world powers embedded in there in iran and in russia and we've just told the ayatollah and putin and assad that we may strike meaning that they're martialing all of their defenses. >> my concern is that the long they are goes on the riskier it gets. we indicated we were going to strike. it's taken a number of days to move toward song kind of potential strike. in the meantime, i'm sure the russians, iranians and syrians have taken steps to protect their targets and have developed ways to respond to a u.s.