and bret have touched on. all the traditional figures on donald trump's national security team. i think h.r. mcmaster gave a speech and stayed close to the text but it didn't bear out in what was delivered from president trump today. >> this issue is not isolated just to russia. although russia is the most obvious and sort of head-snapping example. i call it the cognitive dissonance of the trump foreign policy. you're left constantly trying to interpret. the world thinks the foreign policy is whatever trump says it is and they're looking at his twitter feed. here in washington you have people who are still desperate to invest in the idea that there is somebody in charge of this foreign policy other than trump. so you have this built-in tensionion that leads us all to become kremlinologists of the trump white house when it comes to foreign policy. that's the biggest single problem. on which issue today should we say, actually, the written