authorization and also the case for these diplomatic efforts. did that complicate the message, what was riding on his speech last night and kind of where things go from here? >> it did make it hard. again, when a president has a white house address to discuss possible military action, nine out of ten times, 9 1/2 out of 10 times, the president is making the case to the american people we are about to do this. the president last night was making the case, i hope i don't have to do this, i hope the diplomacy works but i need to walk you down the path, answer your questions. the president listed a lot of those questions. >> almost point by point. >> a lot of you say that. if you look after -- look, he has to move the numbers with the american people, move the numbers in the united states congress. democrats were generally positive about the speech, members of congress, but you did not see a rush of yes votes come out among republicans. lindsey graham, who's with the president on this said he should have talked more about iran, laid out clearly what are the benchmarks to see if this russian proposal is serious, see