pompeo after the attacks on the ships last week, come out to the state department press room and make ail series of declarations. and then the president seemed to undercut that over the weekend, when he stepped in, he said i'm not terribly concerned about these and so forth. and so, what it seemed like, the policy was headed, was to say, look, we can manage the small tactical stuff in the gulf. the big issue is don't restart the nuclear program. because if you do that, you're in for a world of hurt. now, we've lost a drone. it's obviously a pretty provocative thing to do. but fortunately, there were no casualties. the u.s. has lost $150 million worth of machinery. there's an argument about where it was located, in international waters or not. it's not the first drone we've lost over iran. back in the obama administration, there was famously one lost because of an accident with the drone. but the iranians put it out on