it's time to start leveling with the american people and do whatever is necessary to protect americans. alicia: and as we await the address from the president later on today, he is meeting with his national security team. at the same time, there is tremendous criticism of this team. coming from both sides. let's take a look. we have tennessee senator republican marsha blackburn. she tweeted this week, joe biden needs to fire his national security team. but then you also have a former obama advisor, brett bruin in an op-ed also saying why biden must fire his national security advisor for afghanistan failure, basically saying that jake sullivan while he may be a nice guy he worked with, he is more of an academic and doesn't understand what's going on on the ground. does this help? >> there's been a massive failure with this team. i don't care how many fancy degrees they have or how many