talking points prepared. and strategy discussions. the president did none of that here. we had chairman of committee say i had no idea this was coming. so this is a complete mess from a political point of view in addition to the military hardship, and the -- or ally the kurds kind of being left out to dry and seeking help from syria or russia or whatever other power is willing to help them at this point. >> what's your take? >> i think that's right. this is not -- this is sort of a surprise announcement, but this is also that's been hanging out there for a long time. the president threatened to do this in march and it led to his defense secretary resigning. usually there's a communication that goes on. there was communication, it's been for a number of years republicans and democrats have told this administration that we need to have a strategy in this region. this is a bad situation. there's no easy answer to what's going on here. but for three years the administration has just sort of