capital. we wanted to show the president that you get great return on your investment when you have, for example, a thousand troops overseas but you have that host nation with tens or even hundreds of thousands that are working in partnership with us. so to have put that much time and effort into that kind of a briefing, to have president trump walk in with a scowl on his face, to sit down with his arms crossed, he refuses to look at tillerson, refuses to look at mattis. it was something that you just sensed in the room that he was not pleased with what he knew he was going to hear and it made the briefing itself very difficult. we were only three or four minutes in before he started using non sequiturs. he starts bringing up, for example, there had been a leak in "the washington post," and he spent ten minutes talking about how that reporter should be sued and "the washington post" should be sued. it was very jarring. >> he also then -- that's when he first brought up the whole idea of a parade, right? >> it is. that is the meeting where we first heard about the parade. it was towards the tail end of the meeting. as i note in the book, there are a lot of issues he brought up.