although he is a little bit in the doghouse, not just on this issue, venezuela and others. the president listens to his counsel but he hasn't agreed with him for a while. pompeo was advocating military strikes remains largely in grace. tucker carlson, the fox news host, the president not only listened to as carlson said on the program that they shouldn't have military action with iran, but fielded calls privately from the white house residence during the nights before. that's another voice that he does listen to. and i think he was pleased with the media coverage, according to our reporting on friday, of his decision not to strike. he was praised, mostly in a bipartisan way, and on networks like this one and cnn, where he doesn't usually get a kind word. >> the other thing is there were generals at the pentagon who have been looking at this issue for over a decade who realized, there's no winning in having a nuclear strike or any kind of strike on iran. they've hardened their weapons, they've hardened their silos. iran has a lot of the ways of hitting back, in the gray zone,