negotiation highly unlikely and the objective of which is very unclear. and i think john is right. there seems to be an element of regime change in the policy, which the president clearly doesn't want to support. so, there is an incoherence here and miscommunication and we severed all diplomatic channels. i think it is good the swiss president was in the oval office yesterday and i think that was a good initiative from the president. >> brett, we mentioned that "new york times" report that says president trump is trying to slow down some of the hawks in his administration, including national security adviser john bolton. of course, he has been a long-time proponent of regime change. >> i never would have expected it would be president trump who was putting out the caution flag. but he has really the individual advising him in that inner circle who has one vision and he would like to see bombs dropping