there has been a bit of a scramble at the white house to contain the political messaging around this crisis. we have seen this movie before in washington in august, a crisis that is testing an administration that is trying to get a little bit of a break. i want to get to the question of trust because i think that also speaks to the steps ahead for this white house now. you talked about whether there s trust in the taliban. the president was asked about this a month ago, and he scoffed at it and said of course you don t trust the taliban, and he talked yesterday about the diplomacy, and we know our eu partners were meeting to have a series of discussions, and we know the administration has been having calls with the foreign counterparts, and the thing to look forward to now is is the president going to be edge gauging in leader to leader calls. what have we heard in the last