but the administration seems to be saying is, we've got to china. well, we don't see anything from china. we just heard that the chinese are in contact with the north koreans to try to put pressure on them not to test. well, dated test. -- they did test. i think were going to see whether the chinese action is an illusion or whether trump was taken in with the meeting by xi, the president of china, or whether this is a process where they've agreed to do things over time. but we haven't seen anything yet, and this is a way for the north koreans to try to, at least for the merrily, to call the -- preliminary preliminaril the left. >> bret: when they are in the world spotlight, do something to try to get attention and negotiate a deal. this seems different, this is the commander, head of u.s.