there will be no contact betwin reverses on this and he did. >> the narrative between his tweets and his statements and what happens, is gap is widening. he's assuming people won't note what's happening, at least the people to whom he is tweeting. he lost that round. china said nothing. he needs to talk to china. he needed to talk to china before prime minister abe came. that's a big issue with our relations with japan. i agree with richard that the people who said nope, he's going to run one way and govern another, thus far, that looks like what's happening. >> part of it is the reassertion of the departments. white house gets staffed first. the departments are getting staffed later. initially the white house makes all these announcements. i'm still struck by the fact that the state department doesn't have a deputy. the defense department doesn't