and we've seen this time and time again. when things aren't going well, you lob a molotov cocktail in one corner of the room and everyone runs over there and looks at it and ignores all the stuff that's been going on that hasn't reflected well on the administration. >> yeah, and sadly, it works, because we in the media, we need fresh news to chew over. and when the president says something, by definition, that is inherently newsworthy. when he makes war-like threats against iran, you have to report that, but at the same time, you're also inadvertently furthering his agenda, because that's what he wants to talk about now. >> you also look what happened last year with north korea going to fire and fury to a summit with kim jong-un to, that there is no more security threat from north korea to now things, you know, the timetable now just seems to be kind of moving, and there is no rush on denuclearization. i mean, could the president's rhetoric toward iran be an attempt to have some sort of unlikely kim-like summit with rouhani, or do you think that's sort of too much three dimensional chess and this is