he hadn't had a chance to talk about it today. and exactly what you said. he comes back to say, look he actually told us it's in the transcript, that he was thinking of trump's own speech. he had been up early that morning to watch the afghanistan speech where if you remember trump tries to bring unity to the country. he said we need to come together. he said that is what i was thinking of when i said. i was actually thinking of the president's own words, and people said i was coming out against the president. >> let's give him that. >> yeah. >> we also had an instance -- i'm going to play this to you when reporters were asking him about the president's tweet on north korea that where he said the time for talking is over. here is what general mattis said. >> the president this morning tweeted that talking isn't the answer. are we out of diplomatic solutions for north korea? >> no. we're never out of diplomatic solutions.