during 2012, in fact, during the tenure, this is a tweet that the president, now donald trump, sent out on january 13th, 2012. it in he writes, "while obama is slashing the military, he's also negotiating with our sworn enemy, the taliban, who facilitated 9/11." i mean, you were the ambassador there during that put out this , what are you learning that he was having secret talks with the taliban? >> the talks that i was privy to when i was ambassador to afghanistan were at the request of the afghan government and in the few conversations i had with members of the taliban, afghan government representatives were in the room. fully authorized, of course, by the administration. so as we look at what we're facing now, the huge difference, and the huge mistake -- >> i mean, do you think there's a bit of hypocrisy on the part of this administration?