officials, not just elected republicans, but elected democrats, many of whom you've had on your air and we've seen on television who have had a different conversation that have said, yes, we agree that leaving afghanistan was right, and, yes, we agree this was the time to leave afghanistan, but that this was a botched withdrawal and that there was unnecessary humanitarian and potentially security implications to the fact that this was not handled as well as it could be handled. now, some people will say that that is all, you know, fine, but ultimately it's irrelevant compared to the larger question, was it right to leave or not. but there's no doubt over the last week with the images we've seen on television, that discussion has been the dominant discussion in the media and what you're seeing joe biden do, i thought it was a little brittle with joe, i think that was the word joe scarborough used, it was a little brittle with george stephanopoulos yesterday, but he's trying to keep the focus on