committee for foreign affairs, give me your reaction. >> yeah. thank you for that question, don. i previously served active duty in guam. i can tell you the united states has exactly zero good military options against north korea. any diplomacy and dialogue is good. i hope this high stakes first meeting is productive. but it does underscore the importance of diplomacy. i find it totally unacceptable as we sit here today, donald trump still has not nominated a u.s. ambassador to south korea. his own special envoy to north korea recently resigned. it's like a high stakes of basketball against your opponent with half the team missing. disadvantages to the united states. >> so you think it's a good first step. but you would hope that he was more prepared and more read in? what you are saying? >> absolutely. first of all this is going to occur very quickly. n. a matter of a couple of months. and we don't have a full team