said maybe this isn't the right package. but it's very difficult with a man like this president, who is so impulsive and is so disinterested as a general rule in reading intelligence briefings and understanding sort of the nuances of some of these things to have a lot of confident that he doesn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed tomorrow morning and say, hit them after all. so it's a great concern, i think, because if you want to him them, you've got to do it effectively and it's got to be something that matters and causes their behavior to change and not just a feel-good boom-boom. >> yeah. general hertling, i just want to read something else from "the new york times." it's talking about the consternation that has been going on within the white house and within the administration. the trump national security advisers were split about whether to respond militarily. senior administration officials said that the secretary of state mike pompeo, john bolton, the national security adviser, gina haspel, cia director, had favored a military response, but top pentagon officials cautioned that such an action could result in a spiraling escalation with risks for american forces in the