adviser to president obama and dana bash, currently senior adviser to us. dana, what do you make of what we just heard from the president and is it a moving goalpost? >> well, it's almost as if the goalpost that he set up himself didn't exist in the interview. and that really is the biggest problem that he has politically, never mind actually getting things calm and the chaos under control, if that's even possible on the ground. but politically speaking he has that statement, the fact that there are 300,000 troops and he was confident that they would be fighting and there was nothing in between there and him now saying o well we -- i have no regrets and there's nothing we could have done differently. that is a huge gulf. and it is pretty clear from the president's body language, from his cadence that he's -- he's on