to go on which program to spread the message and then they execute. but we have something different here. we have a group of people who may have succeeded very well in other aspect in their lives but have never served in a functioning white house national security council process before. even people like general mattis, a very well regarded general, he had not been a deputy national security adviser or senior director at the nsc to see how the process works. we should expect more of these things as ambassador haley is out there trying to execute the policy they thought they had agreed to. >> and the question is why the president put the brakes on the sanctions in the first place. >> reporter: the president has shown again and again that he going to make policy by the seat of his pants. even the clip about him talking about the north korea meeting. he said maybe we'll have a good meeting, maybe we wouldn't have a good meeting, maybe we won't have a meeting at all.