mr. kattouf back into this. this is a political question, sir. i understand that. do you think it's possible, seriously, that the president would go it alone, he loses the vote in congress and still goes ahead with a bombing mission. maybe it's a semi bombing mission but do you think the president could actually do that. go to congress, get a no and go out and do what you want anyway? >> i would hope he wouldn't do that. and i don't know why he went to congress if he was planning to do it anyway. makes no sense whatsoever. he could end up with the senate going along and the house rejecting it. that would be an interesting scenario. but, no, we don't know what he'll do at this point. but i certainly think would be a mistake on his part going ahead having gone to congress on this. >> the mere fact that a week ago everybody thought we were going to start bombing. it was really friday night on this show and then saturday morning on the radio, they were talking about the president's statement at 1:15. it's hard to believe that that whole week has gone by with nothing sp