uk, france, the amount of work put in to achieve this deal. we're talking to a situation where we have north korea and iran escalating rather than deescalating -- >> brendan greeley, then why is the market roorg? why is president trump's approval rating up? when you talk about the market, it's about risk management. >> tax cuts are coming. >> so is santa. >> i think markets have learned that things consistently don't happen. we've been having this conversation for the last five years, and every time some new event happens, the vix, the measure of market volatility, it bumps less and less and less and less. this is not about what's happening now. >> we're desensitized until we go to war. >> megan's point about the script is exactly right which is that the problem is not what he says, but the inconsistency and i'm precision with which he says it. when you read accounts of allies that are talking to us, japan,