dunn and cnn senior analyst david gergen, who has been to syria with two different administrations. thanks for being here. how would you grade the president's selling of his administration's plan in syria right now? house of representatives's he doing? >> it's totally incomplete at the moment. you have to give him a c minus at the moment. the question is how well he can sell it in that speech -- >> has there been too long, though? secretary kerry spoke on monday, vice president biden spoke on tuesday but no real, solid, firm words from the president. >> i think it would have been better had he been taking the lead from the start. you even have to ask should he have drawn the red line way back when. would he have been doing this if