i want to say that to everybody who gets into the fray of politics. i wish you all the best. >> okay. thank you. >> i want to begin by quoting back to something you said about the raid that captured and killed osama bin laden and this is a direct quote from what you said. you said i don't think it was necessary. no. it absolutely was not necessary. i would suggest the way they got khalid shaikh mohammed we went and cooperated with pakistan. are you really suggesting, sir, that we should have just said to the pakistanis, work with us. we now know that bin laden was sitting there plotting additional attacks and you don't think this was the right thing to do? >> no. i think -- you know, we don't know all of the details. from the information i have i think it could have been done better. we cooperated before and if you don't recognize that a sovereign nation is important, then all you do is build enemies so today there was retaliation and a lot of people were killed.