Administration? no. if you get into a series of hypotheticals about what you narrow the table. i think the president has long held a strategy that doing that begins to give the opponent, whoever it is in that particular case, if it s just a negotiation, the options of where to go and w not tgo. the president was making it clear that not to take options after the table was done. we will always make sure our national interests were protected. if we were to say we were taking something off the table in any way, shape or form, that would limit what we have to do. we re going to make sure we have to do what we have to do to protect our natural interests. ....