our cat reporter alan levin is with me from washington. describe to me this balancing act at the faa? simple flight a safety decision, it would be relatively simple but you have questions of diplomacy, other u.s. agencies like the state department, department of defense, that need to be notified up to and including the white house as well. cases, it ends up being a pretty difficult balancing act. when the alluded to, faa makes a decision like this, it does not do so in a vacuum. talk about the maze of government agencies at the faa has to navigate. said, if the military is involved, as we have seen in prior years in iraq and afghanistan, the faa has to work .ith the department of defense any time they are dealing with issues overseas, they are working with the state department to make sure they do nations' any foreign feathers. they are working with intelligence agencies. an awful lot of this can -- they cannot discuss. clearly, a lot of consultation and work that goes into one of these orders. >> what about the competing interests, politi