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On the latter issue i think the general's comments are being somewhat overblown. the military has a long-standing policy of questioning, and ultimately not implementing, any illegal orders. so my sense is the general re was restating the policy op on whether president trump would order an illegal strike, in my experience working for two presidents, lawyers are part of the entire policy development process. so in this case, you'd have pentagon lawyers, white house lawyers involved in developing nuclear strike options and presenting them to the president. so president trump would know, before he...

Get that. but when you have political talent and it's at the pentagon, too, you run the risk of not having good policy oversight and a good policy development process in place for the careerists, whether they are military or foreign service officer who is are doing a great job in the interim but they need that policy oversight. they need to know that there's a linkage back to the white house and that's not happening. our allies and partners know that, too. they know that absent some policy oversight and some guidance given to them from a political perspective, there's a limit to how much they ...

To foreign policy, do you see more benefit or risk in this? >> i think it depends on the issues very much. but in general, you've got this huge apparatus. as rex tillerson, 75,000 people working for the state department. you can't just swing them from one side to the other on an hourly or daily basis. you can't make policy by tweeting. so you've got to go through a policy development process. i think there's an important role that donald trump is creating for himself and tweeting. he's communicating to the american people. certainly his followers seem to like it. okay, great. when you try to m...