included presentations from secretary of defense, secretary carter, special presidential envoy brett mcgirk, the director of national intelligence, general clapper. and we had a lot of time, through three different sessions, the main session this morning, a luncheon session and then a long session this afternoon, to be able to have a full discussion with almost i think everybody weighing in. and i think one thing that really struck me today was the extraordinary breadth of agreement about the strategy, about what we've accomplished, what we till have to accomplish and the direction ahead. across every region and in every aspect of our work, the level of commitment could not be higher. and the recent spade of vicious terror attacks in various countries from the middle east through europe and elsewhere has only made every single member of this coalition more determined to succeed. now i think it's really important to remember that the counterdaesh coalition came together less than two years ago, starting at ground zero in terms of this kind of broad cooperative initiative along many different