the united states is bad, you know. nobody really believes that, but will ripley, thank you so much for all of your insights and inspecially context given your experience. somebody else is at the table with context and experience in the region. cnn chief national security corners jim sciutto. elise talked about the madman theory. you know, i think that that's nice, sort of in theory, but this is not theory. this is real life. so what do you make of it? >> listen, you know, looking at rubio's comments initially. it wasn't that the words weren't nice. right? i mean the idea is, what did they mean? first of all, and a point john mccain made, that the president appeared to set something of a red line. right? if north korea makes another threat it will be met with fire and fury, and since president trump's words north korea made a very specific threat. naming the target and the kind of missile and number of missiles et cetera. there's that. the other point is, that, you