it's in the context of that joint chiefs of staff chairman joe dunford, called his russian counterpart shortly before the strike in syria, as he had done the year before to to say, look, you've seen what's happened here with this chemical weapons attacked by the assad government and just want you to know that we're not going to sit idly by so that you know, you need to look out for your russian forces. we understood fully and i think that's what madison is saying. that if we were not careful that there might be a collateral damage, which we didn't want. this was not in any sense, aimed at rush was aimed at the assad regime. all be that you said the putin was lying about it, not be a chemical attack. you also say in the book that actually did. that's right, that was the russian position. and that was incorrect, isn't it all? the evidence indicates. yeah, obviously, very controversial. but you do mentioned in the book with antonio gutierrez, who slammed the strike for not having un security council approval. he was being ridiculous kind of symptomatic of the fact, the lack of authority o