let's bring back chris solizza and bring in aaron david millar.great to have you and your brain with us this morning. >> you too, solizza. good to have you too. that's the point. >> yeah, yeah, thanks. >> aaron, what is the strategy? what is president trump trying to achieve here? >> i think that was a way to split the difference between a president driven by his own personal version of having to certify his own politics, that this is the worst deal in human history and to satisfy his base on one hand with i guess you could argue the adults, tillerson and mattis, who were looking for a way to ensure that the president at least now would not walk away. so they came with this very clever strategy on not certifying, which is essentially will kick the matter to congress. presumably congress will not impose sapblnctions at least immediately that will be related to the deal and ensure that the iranians will pull out. again, i work for republicans and democrats. i voted for democrats. this is not a partisan comment. it reads kind of like a term paper wit

we have cnn political analyst gregory and editor at large chris solizza.ere critical of how the president was, you know, throwing paper towels. that his tone didn't seem to necessarily fit the tragedy, the hue plmanitarian crisis there. the only local politician we can find that is critical of president trump is the san juan mayor. she felt it wasn't sensitive. >> reporter: to say i was critical is an understatement. that thank you for that, alyson. look, i just think the thing donald trump has failed to demonstrate up to yesterday was his ability to be empathetic with anybody he is not related to or views as a peer. we saw that in charlottesville. we saw it repeatedly during the campaign. to me in puerto rico yesterday, when you joke about you're costing us a lot of money, when you say it is not a real catastrophe because not enough people died, when you talk about the weather and how nice the weather is though occasionally you get hit, which he did, when you randomly bring general kelly to tout the fact that he has four stars, when you act the way he act