repeated and it was lawful and conducted with the counterterrorism policies we are conducting a thorough independent review to fully understand what happened and how we can prevent this type of incident to happen in the future. we expect the president to give more information on that and any detail the white house has declassified and can share publicly, and we will see if he will take questions on this as well. bob joins me on the phone. give us a sense of how common it is or unprecedented it is for the white house to release this information at this point in time? >> i think the white house wanted to hold off as long as they could to confirm that in fact these tragic deaths occurred as a mistake. once they did, they had to go public since there was a american citizen involved so