information about the world. a lack of curiosity in alarming his advisers. what woodward details is again and again and again his military leaders, general dunford, for example, secretary mattis, the defense secretary, and others just being alarmed by this president, by decisions that he wants to make. for example, he said in a phone call to general mattis, the defense secretary, that he wanted to assassinate bashar al assad, the leader of syria and his people. and mattis when he hung up the phone had to tell his senior aide, no, we're not going to do any of that. we're going to be much more measured than that. there is an effort by all senior officials in the administration to be guardrail for what they believed would be very dangerous and unwise actions that the president wanted to do. >> i intend to act john brennan a question about that in just a minute's time. jeremy bash, in your lifetime did you ever think you'd read about or hear about a letter being swiped off the desk of the