yamish, let me begin with you. it's not only the dropharwood.is not only the drop overall what's interesting here. what we're seeing he's losing support among some key demographics. he is down with independents but he's also dropped four points overall with whites to below 50% and even down larger seven points with whites without college degrees. both of those really made up a strong part of his base. is he in danger of losing that base? >> i think you could definitely -- i think if you're president trump and you're looking at this poll, you should be a little worried mainly because one of the things that the poll also asks about his handling of the actual issues so when you look at the iran deal, when you look at him being a commander in chief, when you look at him handling north korea, the polling shows that people don't think that he's doing a good job with those issues. so essentially not only are people saying okay, the personality of donald trump maybe he's brash, maybe he's getting into fights with other republicans, maybe we don't like t

onset, washington bureau chief and political analyst, phillip rucker, co-error of po lit co playbook, yamishnd jeremy bash. he's a former chief of staff at the cia and the department of defense. so i don't really know exact lie what to do with tillerson's remarks. i'm going to start with you with a serious question. >> we're not going to have a play of words between antom mal and -- >> let's talk about what this means. this clearly was a situation where the reporting seems to suggest the president was in one place behind the scenes. he wants to scrap the whole deal. his team may have had some influence that says it's a half mesh spur decertify it. >> the president had two choices. he could have withdrawn from the deal. by the rhetoric, the yardstick of his own rhetoric, he chickened out. he did not do that. he could do that at any moment. >> i feel like if he sees you saying he chickened out, we may not end up in the iran deal. >> the other choice was to basically say that iran is noncompliance and that's problematic because it was at odds with his own intelligence community, his own secreta