we have a lot to fight for and defend. joining us now, secretariat of state mike pompeo. i said this last night and my reporting and it has been confirmed. our intelligence community working with the best military on the face of the earth. her state department and the president made this decision very quickly in response to wha was a real threat. what can you tell us? >> it's. >> it's great to be with you. it was in fact and all of government effort directed and led by president trump paired w identified the risk the president talked about today that soeimani was a terrorist and was engaged in active plotting. there was an attack that was imminent that could have killed hundreds of americans prayed we found an opportunity and we delivered. we brought all of america's bes and brightest together and took an opportunity to take this guy as you describe pretty accurately is one of the worst terrorist ever walked the face of the plano. we took them off him off the battlefield and we...