he is known, a, to be polarizing, b, to be brittle at times with his relationships, but c, he is also known as a survivor to work the system behind the scenes, if you will, to be a bureaucratic survivor and to work the bureaucracy to do things that maybe others at the table didn't want to happen. is that what you're pointing out here? >> it's true, but bolton is a master at diplomacy. it occurred not in a galaxy far, far away with respect to basic rules of diplomacy. they occurred in a system which was relatively predictable. this is not predictable. you have a mercurial, idiosyncratic president who acts on his ego and personal sensibilities. this was not an environment which played to bolton's strength, clearly. and i really do believe that