joining us now is daniel drezner, professor of international politics at the fletcher school of diplomacy at tufts. professor drezner, appreciate you being here tonight. i know you feel like you're a little bit in the middle of a storm right now. >> i'm obviously better off than the syrian family than my synagogue was going to be hosting when they come into this country so it's a relative thing. >> this was a sponsorship planned by your congress? >> right, in concert with the hebrew international aid society. we were planning to bring in i believe two families to resettle them. we received an e-mail explaining because of the executive order that was going to be coming out that program would be suspended. >> so what sparked the profanity you later apologized and the anger that gave rise to it. >> it was something good we could do for a situation for a situation where the united states hadn't handled syria terribly well and you can talk about the appropriate way of coping with that but there's no denying particularly our allies have had to shoulder more of the refugee burden than the united