martyr, which then brought in the entire press corps, which took in the entire afternoon news cycle, in a completely different direction, because fundamentally, what i would have liked to have been on talking about this evening is the fact that president trump put together a great trade deal with the eu, getting more soybeans and manufactured goods over to the eu. >> just to be clear -- i'm not trying to get into a debate on this, but what he said was, we're going to start negotiations. so there's no deal, there's a discussion there may be a deal, but he said, we're going to get one. so there is no deal yet. >> was also on the eu, the eu also agreed we're moving towards that direction. >> yes, that is true. >> it was a joint statement. so, yes, they're moving in that direction, but it wasn't a unilateral statement. but that's what i would have loved to have been talking about, and the progress we're making towards nafta and the bigger economic competition between u.s. and china. >> but jason, would you admit, they didn't want to talk about the cohen tapes today. that's why there was no press briefing or have any other availability -- >> much happier to be talking about -- >> and he did tweet about it.