communications going back and forth, ensuring that tensions were reduced. i think that s what we wanted chairman of the joint staff to do in a period of time like this. let me add i know mark milley extremely well, he s worked for me on a number of occasions, he s rock solid, kind of looks like a bouncer from a boston bar, but he went to princeton, he s deeply, deeply versed in these issues. he knows his role. i m confident he stayed within the remit of his job as chairman. princeton grads can be bouncers, too. ben, not only did milley do these things, here is what sticks out, he very clearly felt comfortable making his actions public. what do you make of that decision? well, i mean, this is someone who has been through a pretty extraordinary period as chairman, it includes the brink of war with iran on a couple of occasions, the fiasco in lafayette park, then the transition. i think, you know, he believed that what he saw up close was