is sincerely interested in ending -- in having peace here. and the one party that might want it, which is the afghan government, was essentially cut out of the process. but, peter, i had a question for you. i haven't heard anybody talk about the intelligence community here. we have khalilzad and pompeo supposedly wanting a deal, bolton opposing a deal. but normally when an administration would think about a big diplomatic initiative, the intelligence community would weigh in and give the assessment of all the partners and players and what might happen. do you have any sense of how that worked here? >> it's a great question. no, i don't have the particular sense of that. you didn't hear that as part of the conversation. this not being the normal process that we see that you saw in several administrations. and i think that's -- that's key. this is a president who likes to sort of operate on a more ad-hoc basis. tom i think had it right. he does live in the moment. and he doesn't he doesn't have a strong relationship with the intelligence community.
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