let's bring in jamal jaafari founder of the national security institute at the scalia law school. also a visiting fellow at the hoover institution and former chief council to the senate foreign relations committee. jamiel, good morning to you, sir. thank you for joining us on this christmas eve. >> thanks for having me, anita. >> so you worked on foreign policy both in the obama and the george w. bush administration. are you concerned by what bret mcgurk set and his his resignation? >> the challenge here is the president has been rightfully critical of president obama's decision to pull out of iraq precipitously and yet he is about to make the same mistake. bret. >> it is right to be critical. you will pulling out of iraq now is catastrophic proportions. >> you co-authored a chapter of a book with former cia director mike hayden on isis, al qaeda and other