footprints, as people say. but he s basically staffed by a politically minded top aide, and a press aide. and formerly with newt gingrich and a couple of other people. but not career diplomats with the one exception of undersecretary tom shannon who is a holdover. our conversation obviously, john, kes place in the wake, the aftermath of the cruise missile attack on the airstrip in syria. i want to play for you part of the president s motivation had erepeated today. we ll talk about it on the other side. they could have merged that attack last week without the russians knowing. i think it s certainly possible. i think it s probably unlikely. and i know they re doing investigations into that right now. i would like to think that they didn t know. but certainly, they could have.