the unpredictability of this, i think trump -- and maybe trump's supporters like that, they think that that's -- that that puts them at an advantage. but in the field of international diplomacy, unpredictabi is not a good thing most often. it leaves people guessing. it forces people to make decisions with incomplete facts. that is never a good thing. >> ashley, as is often michael's role in that third box he brought up another good point in that last conversation. and that was how this is playing where actual americans live. for us in the business, and along the places where amtrak stops in the acela corridor this is taking on a tumbleweed quality of an impossible subplot about russian ties 74 days into a young administration.