this is one of those where they knew this was coming. did they know today, tomorrow, a week from now but knew they wanted to do that. the president creates these perception problems for himself by make tg seing it seem as if s one thing he can say or do to stop this. north korea is not negotiating until they have a deliverable missile. that is sort of the situation, the paralysis we are in right now. north korea doesn't want to talk to the chinese or us. >> the president just yelled something at reporters. we will try to figure out what that was. he is now leaving the lunch on capitol hill with senate lawmakers. final question to you, chuck, on north korea. did he have any success? can we say he had success with getting china to pushback on north korea if this is happening? or is it unfair to use that as