iran, for all the sturm and drang over the agreement that was made with president obama didn't have nuclear weapons. they had a program that might get them to getting a nuclear weapon. this is more complicated. it will take a long time over the best of circumstances. you don't normally do it this way. you normally he the experts go in first. you work your way up to a leader meeting. but as we saw in the g7 and other instances, the only person that matters in this administration is the president. the only one that can cut a deal is the president. so i guess in that sense, there's a certain logic to having the president in on the first meeting. >> well, when we say singapore is the other side of the world, we mean it. it's a half hour before noon there and a half hour before mid night here. that tells us we owe phil rucker a lot of thanks for being jet lagged and doing television on top of deadline journalism covering this summit today. really appreciate it as we do peter baker in a more manageable location of washington, d.c. gentlemen, thank you both so much. >>> coming up for us, two of th