it's a repeat of what began in the early 90s in afghanistan with a vacuum being created there. i saw emmie mccarthy who prosecuted the blind sheik, and he walked me through what was going to happen he said our defenses here in the united states are better, but fully in expect in short order al qaeda to start hitting our embassies overseas. this is what they did, they declared war on the united states in 96, they hit embassie in africa in 98, they hit the uss cole in there were other plots against her embassies and that's one of the reasons our allies overseas are so upset. angela merkel called biden out on it in said this is a political move. again, terror is coming to the united states again in the only question now is when. >> the president said the focus was going to be on counterterrorism in using what we could in that region. first of all, we blown our partnership so that will be