>> it certainly is, and it is not reporting that i have confirmed or politico has confirmed but i will tell you this has been an intense debate in the white house and you have to go back to the campaign. president trump has always been a much more isolationist president. he's been very critical of the iraq war and the conflict in afghanistan. he's indicated before that he doesn't want to, you know, put us in another conflict situation, and so there's just been a lot of tension this whole week between those impulses that he has and more hawkish advisers like national security adviser john bolton who has really wanted to, you know, do military action and take military action against iran for a long time. what this shows me is that, you know, potentially bolton won out this argument, although trump may have pulled it back, but there has been this ongoing tension and trump earlier this week really indicated that there would be a red line on this, that unless u.s. civilian was killed by some sort of military action from iran, that the u.s. wasn't going to act, and so i'll