perpetrated, helped organized that. if someone is going to come on television or in any public forum and say assad had something to do with 9/11, they're frankly just a dishonest person. no, we cannot let one generation bind another generation. we are now having a new generation of soldiers that might not even have been born or have been barely born at the time of 9/11. we have new legislature which turns over periodically and a representative democracy like we have, you should vote. i mean, the generation of 9/11 certainly shouldn't bind us to a forever war in the middle east. i think that's absurd, it's wrong-headed and frankly intellectually dishonest. >> was there a vital u.s. interest at stake in our retaliation? you know that president trump has said that the potential for the spread of chemical weapons was that vital u.s. interest. do you agree with the president? >> no. i think as horror itific as the attacks were and as heart