underway. a lot of chaos in that building behind you. now the drums of war beat from the president rhetorically. it feels like a classic distraction tactic. >> we don't know what motivated the president to go this route. we know from white house officials today, shep, that this was not something that the president had been reading a prewritten statement that had been cleared by other officials. it was something the white house says that other people in the national security council new the general sentiment of what he was going to express but the president essentially delivered this off the top of his head. we know that it wasn't something that secretary tillerson knew extensively what the president was going to say in advance. so it's left to officials to reconcile the messages. we heard from the state department a few minutes ago saying all of the u.s. government is on the same page. >> shepard: is the president -- will the president say anything about this?