republican congress. and basically really accelerate the tendency for this to become much more partisan. and he obviously repudiated the president, who has an enormous amount of leadership in foreign policy. so i think in the long run he s accelerated a really bad dynamic that we ve not seen before. of having israel have a partisan component to it. that s damaging in my view. to our effort to have a really strong continuing relationship with israel. i read some of the analysis this morning about the repercussions of the speech. and some believe that he was able to change some minds. that he was so persuasive that for anybody on the fence about the iranian deal that perhaps he had them shift into the no deal camp. what are you hearing? well congress basically is very hawkish on israel. so he had a receptive audience whether he changed a few minds or not, i don t know. i mean we ve had a tradition of bipartisan support for israel. where the divide is is between the president s approa