states. now, that said, he didn't point out an obvious off ramp as to how we get out of the circumstances that we're in. but he didn't go to the extreme rhetoric that we've seen him use before, and so in that sense i was a bit heart end and maybe even a little bit calmed by the speech. >> you heard will talking about, you know, what they said before the speech and before the president's speech north korean officials said we don't care about that mad dog, what that mad dog may utter because we already heard enough and they went on to say in the speech that it won't impact north korea's military testing plans that are already in place in the region. what do you say about how things stand in the region right now? >> so i actually think there's some truth to what the north koreans are saying. don, i think they're on a pretty firm trajectory. they know where they want to go. we may affect the timing a little bit. they may not want to upset the chinese at this or that particular moment, but i think the north koreans are not going