intelligence assessments. and now if you discredit whether in front of the world or in front of the american people, that can have a major impact and discourage the intelligence services but they ll still do their job and do it well. i just think these kinds of things are a lot of people appreciate a president that s transparent. some things where it s maybe that we shouldn t be that transparent all the time. i want to move on to another topic. that the president canceling talks with the taliban, particularly with tomorrow being the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. you ve been very public in your criticism of even the consideration of invitsing the taliban to camp david for these kinds of talks. why do you believe that the president planned to do this, and do you believe he should in effect pledge that he won t reopen this idea at a later date? yeah, i mean, look. i don t think there s anything wrong with talking to the taliban. generally, i don t think we should talk to a terror