we're going to bring in david korn and david french, a writer at the national review. thank you for joining us and rolling with us. we hoped to get a report to the white house between that clip and now to hear more of the explanation coming up but that moment getting some attention here. david french, let's start with you, get your reaction to the comparison that the white house that sean spicer is trying to draw there. >> look, assad is a genocidal dictator but that comparison is completely inept. people gassed people on a staggering scale. and gassed people by the hundreds and thousands, this is not a historical secret here. and you don't even have to go to hitler to argue that assad is bad to argue that assad is a genocidal. asaad has been committing one long rolling six-year long war crime against his own people.