to things that are at odds with the strategy. perhaps there's more coordination than we realize to those tweets, which i think is often the case, but interestingly, i think that we thought, well, gee, mike pompeo is going to be different than rex tillerson. obviously he's been more successful so far in managing his relationship with the president, but on this iran issue, if you listen to his remarkable testimony last week, it's very similar. he's saying, there is no change in u.s. policy. don't pay attention to exactly what the president of the united states says. i'm going to fill in the blanks for you. so my question is, how long is that going to work as a trump management strategy? and then there's the question of the iranians. i think, you know, josh, they're going to be a lot less likely to come to the table right away than the north koreans were. >> there was a statement from the iranian foreign ministry broadcast on state television in iran saying not so fast, we're not yet ready to meet with president trump. >> right. trump may think that iran is like north korea.