josh letterman, thanks so much. joining us now retired four star navy admiral, chief international security and diplomacy analyst for nbc news. and also with us, elise jordan and mike barnicle. good morning to you all. admiral you were with us two days ago you and joe were talking about the fear of exactly the kind of attack we saw against american troops yesterday. here's part of your conversation with joe. >> i certainly want to get every last american out of there, but it seems to me, if we stayed past the end of the month, we would just be inviting an attack by isis, inviting an attack by, let's say, an even more radical element of the taliban. this is the sort of thing i would not want our troops sitting there indefinitely in this sort of situation. >> i am very worried we are one c-17 crash, one big bomb, one