president decided not to embrace uproar then and there was a internationally, what advice do you have for the trump administration on how to cope with something similar now? well, first of all, you re absolutely right. this is dejavu all over again and one of my white house colleagues at the time now teaches out of stanford blogged last night that this is another example of what he calls q-tips, quantitative total impact insignificant, total political impact significant. so this is you re right. this is the right decision to make. the question is is the president going to spend the next six or seven or eight or nine, ten days, he and his administration explaining to the american people in detail and giving an optimistic vision of what american leadership in this issue can mean or are they going to move on to the next thing and i think it s really vital that think win this issue.