global attention on the chemical weapons deal. so assad is really gaming this. and i think it's going to be hard for the united states to automatically bring everybody back into a marshall position to try to compel syria to go a different thing. it's a real mess. and one can hope through diplomacy and maybe ships coming online and i don't think obama has any kind of appetite for coming back and pretending we might go to war again with syria. >> while you are talking, this is a live look inside the east room where president obama and president hollande are holding the joint news conference. steve, this is a rare sight for a lot of folks. we're talking about a state dinner here. i did not realize until this morning that state dinners for this administration have been fairly rare, no? >> well, this is the sixth one. i've got the privilege of going tonight so i'll be there. in some cases the united states has been some sort of a bind recently in state dinners. the president of brazil rejected hers and a lot of european countries are upset with the