five that were released and build them up into this mega threat against us and say the president of the united states is a traitor who turned in a traitor to let out our enemies. is that the kind of benghazization of this? >> it's not. we need to deal with the facts but you have to ask the question, why didn't the president work with congress? because a lot of this could have been covered. i think those questions would have been answered upfront. that's the right way to. >> in fact, senator diane fine stain also said today she wishes the president would have gone to her. >> as do i. i think it would have been appropriate for the administration to go to the chairman and ranking members of the intelligence and armed services committees on the house and senate side. and i don't -- i haven't been read into how very delicate these negotiations were and why they felt that was not appropriate. as a general proposition, i think they would have saved themselves a fair amount of grief if they had read some of our colleagues who had the appropriate committee position into what was going on. >> and that we agree.