have been unimaginable that we couldn't brief on syria. >> but you think in the past the u.s. would have very forcefully -- >> i think so. i served on the u.n. security council a few years ago and i think that would have been the case. but in overall terms, at the human rights council in geneva, there's no human rights ambassador that's been appointed, which is rather stock and you sense the absence. and the feeling is that, yes, there's certain issues which either the president has spoken about, whether we go back to the executive orders of his presidency, or since then. >> the travel bans. >> the travel bans and the issue of the dreamers and the daca and how we are in a sort of state of limbo and then the various comments that the president has