>> scott, you should respond. >> yeah. look, i agree with you, the president does have the full knowledge and you have full intelligence. and that's what barack obama had when he made this deal. and so if he had all in knowledge and all this insight, why was he not able to convince the american people, why was he not able to convince the congress at the time to do this in treaty form. there's a real constitutional answer to this. if you don't want the sands taken out to sea when the next administration comes in, you put this in a treaty and you submit it to the congress. the reason is, it had no political support. he did not build public support for it because people knew it was a bad deal at the time. so you can be mad at donald trump, but you really need to take a deep breath and remember barack obama put us in this situation because he couldn't sell it as a treaty at the time. >> why are we finger pointing between presidents here though? isn't the question if we're safer or not because of this deal? >> you're finger pointing. >> let me make my point. let me talk for a second, please. i'm asking the question as to whether we are safer today than we were yesterday.