martin indyk of brookings wrote a piece that essential essentially to achieve the objectives you mentionedaudrey, there are two ways to do it. you either work with iran as a dominant power in the region which max says we're effectually defacto doing or work with the pillar nation, egypt, saudi arabia israel, to work with either one of those. seems to me, my question is, do you think we are in fact as max suggests going towards this defacto relationship with iran? or are we just doing these things badly all of these pieces badly? thank you. >> like to start? >> thought i heard your name invoked. >> yes you did. i think you have identified a very key point which is that our relationship with the region depends upon a number of different actors. i do think that our handling of iran has been remarkably naive i would say in the last 12 years. and, that we need to develop a lot more complexity in how we look at major powers within the region. i do not think that the arab coalition led by the saudis and including what is it, nine other arab states taking action in yemen is a bad thing. i think th