sanctions. as they said, it several points, they want to see how these sanctions continue to work. now, just real briefly on sort of the hinting and the glib responses of kicking the can down the road to mattis. a lot of ways, the posture hasn't changed. diplomacy first. if that doesn't work, they have military options. there's a slight change in tone and tenor there and the policy remains the same. that's diplomacy first and we always have options. guys? >> yeah. i noticed that mcmaster was asked what went on in that call that the president had with theresa may. he said i wasn't on the call. is it unusual for a national security adviser to not be in on something like that and tell us anything about the relationship that's currently going on between the president and his national security adviser? >> reporter: always a tendency to want to read tea leaves and i think that was unusual given that the national security adviser might be in on the phone calls and discussions.