they did even, if they read it, they didn't comment on it certainly and made it perfectly clear, this will never, ever come up in the united states congress. and yet, now, as he's working negotiations, as presidents and secretaries of states have done since the dawn of our age, the congress now feels the need to be involved immediately and almost thoroughly. what is the difference? can you see it? >> i think it's hard to put your finger on anything that's very different here shep. and i'm concerned about the erosion of the ability of the executive branch to run, not only foreign policy as you indicate, and make agreements short of treaties which ought to go to the senate, but also this starts to edge into the conduct of military operations. that is a place we do not want the congress going. >> i'm not sure that everybody has thought this through thoroughly. i wonder even if individual members of congress have thought through what they're doing because you look back a while, i