we had a chance for going all out with an iran deal, remember, years ago, after we invaded iraq and iran wanted a deal then and we said no, we're too busy this, not going to deal with it, they learned the lesson. >> don't with that. >> it's trying to accomplish a few things at the same time. and venezuela seemed to have blow up their face a little bit. and let's talk about the confirmation hearing. it seems -- even mitch mcconnell said, she's going to get confirmed. what is the goal -- let me ask you this, what is the goal of the democrats in the confirmation hearings, to protect her from attacks or do you not expect anything that serious? >> we know there are going to be republicans that attack their record in what they think issing be soft on crime. she represented prisoners at gitmo and they will talk about