the chinese are sending an envoy to north korea. i believe they claimed there was no connection to the meeting they just had with president trump, but helped significant is that? i think it significant. it would have been wonderful the president was able to say that in discussions with president xi, he has assured me he is going to do more and he s going to do it sooner based on what director pompei has told the american people, we may be months away from nuclear icbms as opposed to years away from that. but he didn t say that, it doesn t mean that we don t have xi s assurance. he made a point of the fact that his policy, trump s policy and xi s policy are one and the same. i do think this is a step in that direction. martha: just about 20 seconds. with ice is largely out of syria, iran is filling that vacuum, big concern? big concern. we just don t have a decent strategy to push back on iran