advice of his closest national security advisers but without informing many of them or also u.s. allies and partners in the field. does the u.s. have a decision-making process today for key and national security decisions? i don t know. i don t think anyone knows, which tells you there s probably not a great process for getting these decisions done. and that s what so upset mattis in this particular case. we ve seen this before. we ve seen this movie before. if you remember, you know, trump was giving away things in the north korean negotiations that many of the national security space said please don t do this. you re giving up all your leverage and mattis had to get dispatched to japan and saying we re not doing joint training exercises. we re still with you. that was a problem. mattis wasn t there and certainly the national security apparatus was not giving that