i don't think anyone has any special knowledge of what exactly happened. i'm not sure the administration has specific knowledge yet so soon after the attack. i have seen how iran works with groups and provides material, training, counsel to employ more advanced technology like this. i don't know, but it wouldn't shock me if there was an iranian training role in this whole thing. >> without asking you to speculate on what happened with that attack, let me ask you to give us your sense of why the administration reacted as quickly as it did. why did mike pompeo feel so confident in doing so? >> they have been pretty open about it. they are trying to pressure iran and build up the pressure so we have a stronger hand in some negotiations they hope to get to. so their immediate reaction was to sort of put the eyes of the world on iran. i just think they have lost credibility with people. and certainly our allies are not