>> he wants credit for trying. i'm not saying he deserves credit. i am saying there is some impulse that he has where he thinks that taking -- trying to do something like that because he believes he is the only one who can do it, somehow the notion that he was going to get them over there, that he was going to do this, he didn't get a deal done, we didn't even have a meeting. but having even tried to do something no one else has done before. that's all that matters in his mind is has anyone done it before. if they haven't done it before, i am going to try to do it, and ideally i will do it. >> but if i don't do it, i will take try for trying to do something. it's the most infan aisle approach -- infant aisle. >> and i think the frame is dangerous because it ushers in a lowering of the bar where there are actually serious people having serious conversations about whether it makes sense to talk to the taliban or not. this to donald trump was information delivered on the same transem as tweets about individual reporters who wrote stories about his squandered