ve 20 years of traininthgn ntet where you're fiercely apolitical, fiercely nonideological, i try to look at that and apply that analysis now, in the 11 years i've been at heritage, i've been supportive and critical of george bush, of obama and of trump depending on the situation, rather than their political party. so if someone is doing something which he think -- think is know the in the best interest of the u.s., i'll criticize them, whether they have an r or d after their name. with this i'm looking at the bottom up approach that the u.s. did before and diplomatic efforts failed. i remember attending white house meetings in 200 when clinton was still president and north korea had invited bill to go to north korea. and some in the administration were saying that, yes, he should go. of bill's personality is so strong we can get everything we want if we get him in the same room as kim jo jong-il. we don't deploy a president to negotiate a treaty, we deploy a president to sign a treaty where we know where every puncuation is on the piece of paper. and there was a missile deal that would n