who didn't want to get into another conflict in the middle east. who campaigned that iraq was a terrible decision and who criticized the spending that went into this. and now we're how many days in and we're talking about perhaps another aumf. >> not only that but the comparison to candidate trump, when he talked about the value of trying to have -- the principle asset he saw coming out of that was cooperation against isis and syria. you go back and look at the language in the first presidential debate. he said wouldn't it be great if we could work together with russia against isis and here we have the situation in syria, you know, really exploding the difficulty, making very clear the difficulty of any kind of cooperation because while there is a shared interest in dislodging isis in syria, it's clear that russia's principle interest again reaffirmed today is stabilizing assad in syria and you can see how big a space there is between what they want and what we want despite some overlap in terms of isis. >> we're just getting word that