dan lothian, thank you. let's pull up this map that we've created where you can actually see the saudi embassy here. you have the potomac river on the left. maybe that's the watergate, near the kennedymple. that's where the saudi embassy is. we've reached out to this ambassador and have yet to hear back any reaction to this really assassination, this thwarted assassination on his life and as those different officials describe, it would have been a bomb blast, it would have happened at a restaurant in washington, d.c. so not only would this ambassador have been killed, but multiple, multiple casualties. i have al cnn contributor on the phone with me. tom, what do you make of this? >> hello? >> tom, it's brooke in atlanta. do you have me? >> yes. >> so we're live on tv. there is a tremendous, tremendous win for the government, the u.s. government here. what's your first impression? >> well, my impression is that they did a great job of thwarting with all of these agencies in other countries to keep this a secoret to have it o force. the quds force is sort of the iran's team and it's pretty far-fetched. i think whether they will be able to prove that skex another matter but it would be