needs to act in national interest. what has changed now and what is different and what are we going to do. those are the things you cannot do just through staff. i think a cabinet officer, the vice president or the president needs to make it more clear to the american people as they start to focus their mind on syria. you have been in the white house when these decisions are being made and how you re rolling them out for the public. does he give a speech? what happens next? i would say a speech would probably work well for him. might rise to the level of the oval office, depending what kind of help they want to provide. they said on background it is not going to be a cia operation, it will be a dod operation. then hear from the secretary of defense, where is chuck hagel, would love to hear from him. there s been testify on the hill, foreign policy community has been talking about syria a long time. the american people rightly said they re skeptical of it. it is going to take the pr