that's in jeopardy. >> bret, it was embarrassing walk back. what the president should do is make it clear that the united states will support taiwan if mainland china attacks taiwan. that war game is probably correct if china seizes those islands we have few credible options. that's why it's so important to establish the deterrent upfront that they don't seize the islands. we have several other steps we are going to take to support taiwan like helping them build up their cyber defenses and it reserve forces providing them with missiles and sea mines all of which would help deter invasion of taiwan. most importantly we need to make it clear that the united states will support democracy in taiwan and stand up to chinese attack. that's the simplest way to deter that attack from happening in the first place. >> bret: couple more foreign policy things. one is this administration wants to get back to the table with iran. your thoughts on that? >> well, i think the administration is not just trying to get to the table with iran, they have been trying to