elaborate on it. >> well you heard christiane lay out all the times that, you know, someone in his position might have decided to leave before he did. she could have laid out a lot more, but she only had so much time in the show. i mean you've got the president talking about vladimir putin. you've got kim jong-un, very fine people on both sides. why don't you think mattis resigned in any of these other moments that he could have resigned? >> you know, that's the mystery that very frustratingly he's chosen not to clear up for us, and by promoting a book that doesn't elaborate on it, by going on book tour and doing all these appearances. i mean i think he may be surprised at the kind of backlash that awaits him. i have to say that, you know, this is in a certain form the frustration of anyone like i have been trying to write about and cover and understand the trump administration foreign policy. it requires us essentially to be dealing with people who refuse to ever say what they actually think, and frankly what is the