upsetting to people, but he's not going to stop doing it. so what i would rather do is focus on what is the right policy for the american people as it relates to the saudis? so i maintained this, chris, i think the president by if large when you look at his policies, and his executive action, and his thought process, he usually gets to a very common sense answer despite the explanations he's giving you related to his answer. i said this to my wife on our podcast, if you're the 45th president, here's the situation with the saudis, you don't want to put 2.5 million people out of work if you have crippling sanctions on saudi that disrupts the entire oil market and the supply chain for the global economy. unfortunately, they sit on 25% of the world's oil reserves and, you know, that's the regime that we have to deal with right now. >> have you ever heard an american president say anything like that before? that, look, i know you just killed this journalist and lied about it, and i know my cia just