off. >> i've got to ask you, what do you make of that element of this? he walks into -- bangs on the door, walks in and says "in an hour, we're going to be conducting airstrikes. not going to tell you where. don't fly any fighter jets"? what do you make of that announcement? >> kind of the worst characterization of russian behavior you can have. it's very unfortunate because it kind of sends this back to cold war stereotypes that we're not going to get rid of with behavior like that. and the united states has never been in a hot conflict with russia. that hasn't happened. a whole bunch of proxy wars, but we have not done that. so we are going to back off until we figure out how we're going to work this out at the very tactical edge of all this so that we don't have some catastrophe that could occur. >> there's potential there. >> there really is. spider, stick around for a moment because we're getting a lot of new information coming in just as we speak. senator john mccain will speak from the is that the floor in just a few minutes about what is now a burgeoning crisis inside syria and even greater crisis