into war by john bolton. >> talk to me more about this because you have great reporting on this along with the cnn team. how divisive is it and how are we supposed to read some of the president's public statements that he actually wants a dialogue with iran? >> well, they are working on that. the president -- they had the swiss at the white house yesterday because it does seem that they are trying to establish some kind of back channel so they could talk. you saw the president saying as much publicly when people were talking about the aggressive moves and he said, no, i think they're going to want to talk. that's where the president's head is at. he's telling people he does no the want to go to war with iran. he seems to be at odds with john bolton, then there's also secretary of state mike pompeo who doesn't want to be looped in with john bolton and he is more attuned with what the president wants and if he wants to pursue a diplomatic channel he's going to follow that. the president with his own national security adviser often mocks him privately or in front of other world leaders saying that skronjohn bolton wants to e countries, start wars. that is a conflict emerging between the two of them to keep