this instance. melissa: i think it s interesting to answer her question, if you look at this through the lens and i think it was general jack kenya since yesterday but i could be wrong if you look at everybody trying to get leverage ahead of us attend and you see the president sing again and again that the thing he would want most is a sedan of the table with iran and have a conversation about what s going on with the need to do, and you see both sides sort of teeing up as much leverage ahead of time, whether it s iran planting these mines so they can get european allies to say, yikes, we need to get through these lanes, or whatever it is. don t you think? ian: absolutely. one of the things we need to think about with president trump i will make this quick remember when everyone was afraid he would have his hands on the nuclear arsenal? his every instinct has been to negotiate, to take troops out and issue measured responses in advancement of those negotiation tactics.