poppy, back to you. >> paula hancocks, thank you very much. joining us rear admiral john dir by and daily beast columnist, author of "north korea takes on the world," nice to have you both. the message from the administration this weekend is diplomacy above all. you had dunford coming out of that meeting today and saying the priority of the u.s. military is to support a peaceful resolution to the north korean crisis, is this the president trying to tamp down his own rhetoric from last week? >> i think a lot of what we've seen since the fire and fury comment has been senior cabinet officials and administration officials trying to put context ar tlund and absolutely push the diplomacy forward. you saw that with mattis last week, certainly seeing it from general dunford today in south korea. that's the appropriate approach