it is a very important test for the iranians to prove their bona fiddes here. >> rose: tom donilon, thank you very much. >> great, good to see you, and look forward to seeing you again. >> rose: okay, thanks, tom. >> joining me now from the russell rotunda in washington is congressman mike rogers. he's the chairman of the select committee on intelligence, welcome. >> thanks for having me, i appreciate it. >> rose: tell me how you see this? >> well, i'm more concerned for a whole series of reasons. first of all, if you think about our strategic alliance in the middle east, the arab league who was kind of coming together in ways that we haven't seen in the near-- just in recently certainly the near past, on issues like syria and other huge challenges, al qaeda pooling in the eastern syria and western iraq all of those issues showed just tremendous promise and the thought that we had a counter weight to the rise of iranian influence. and when i say iranian influence, they're using violence in order to do it, political assassinations, hezbollah, terrorist organization of which they own 100% o