people that something irregular is taking place. we have a regular channel with the policy being pushed by the bureaucrats in the state department and an irregular channel of a special envoy. now just for historical purposes, virtually every president has had special envoys using this irregular channel toward george washington had john j, one of the most famous was franklin roosevelt, i know the left likes him. he had harry hopkins who lived in the white house, negotiated for stalin and churchill and others, infuriated the bureaucracy at the state department. since the president sets foreign policy for the executive branch, don't we have this reversed? isn't the state department that's doing the irregular things when they defy a president's policy. >> not only that, you have so many problems in ukraine. the democrats hate to admit