reverses himself on this and then he did. >> i think part is, you know, the narrative between his tweets and his statements and what actually happens is the gap is widening and he's assuming people won't actually notice what's actually happening, at least the people to whom he's tweeting. but yeah, he lost that round. you know, china said nothing he needs to talk to china. he needed to talk to china before prime minister abe came because that's a big issue with japan. i agree with richard, 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 i assume is the reassertion of the departments. white house gets staffed first. the departments are getting staff later. initially the white house makes all the announcements. but i'm still struck by the fact that the state department doesn't have a deputy. the defense department doesn't. what are you hearing about the disarray? >> there isn't a trump