bailout. it's an acknowledgment the fact it's being prepared with government spending that no one wants to spend in either party that the farmers are hurting as a result of these tariffs. he's really in a corner increasingly on this issue. what's also interesting is that he spoke about afghanistan but not our presence in syria. in the two hours of mystery behind closed doors with vladimir putin, which he wants to distract the conversation from, and he wants to talk about revoking security clearances for obama administration officials instead. what did happen, the russians are reporting, is there is a deal between the israelis and the russians that he's signing on to for some kind of moves in syria that are very complicated and do involve the iranians. we need to know what that is. that's something he should have been speaking to these veterans about. he was noticeably quiet on that today. >> let me play a clip. this is the secretary of state mike pompeo speaking at the same time as the president. he's been meeting with