joining us now, "daily beast" chief investigative reporter gerald pozner. hat do you make of the closure at the embassies today? gerald, are you there? all right, i think gerald pozner is not there or we're having some technical difficulties. so let's move on briefly and talk about the political angle of all of this and let's be joined now by a.b. stoddard, columnist here in washington. as far as the politics itself, how does this news like today, people wake up on a sunday morning, they find out after a week of focusing on this terror plot over detroit and the airliner, that all of a sudden yemen's gotten so serious now that we have to close our embassy there. how does that essentially affect the public dialogue on all this? >> well, this is an interesting point, david. i think one of the problems initially for president obama last week is that he came out with his first response, we saw homeland secretary napolitano say that the system had worked. president obama himself gave a very weak response. his initial response came out the second day knowing he had