while he was in power and while americans were spending billions of dollars on that country, you can certainly understand an argument for the other side, let's get out, let's get out now, 20 years is too long. i am wondering, though, jonathan lemire, as we move forward, katty was talking about there seemed to be a bit of softening in the president's tone over the weekend, understanding that everything didn't go according to plan. i'm wondering if if we can expect more of that in the coming weeks, saying this is a thing that had to be done, yes, we were surprised. we're doing everything we can now to fix things up, fix the perimeter, bring americans home and to bring our allies home? >> katty is right. there was more squaring with the facts yesterday from the president. and also we've seen a little more display of empathy from him about the situation that so many americans in afghan were going through, which was absent at the beginning part of the crisis,