congress. our polling operations are pretty good. i tend to have a pretty good sense of what current popular opinion is. for the american people who have been through over a decade of war now with enormous sacrifice and blood, any hint of further military entanglements in the middle east are going to be viewed with suspicion. that suspicion will probably be even stronger in my party than in the republican party. i understand skepticism. i think it is very important for us to work through systematically making the case to every senator and every member of congress. >> i want to follow up because it seems these members of congress are simply responded to their constituents and you're seeing a lot of these town mall