certainly is the fear but this election isn't going to be that easy for the first time the president's a.k. party will potentially face a threat on the right and on the left they've never had to fight that before that makes the electoral map potentially more difficult on top of that while the turkish president is a political giant in turkish politics enjoying stream strong support among his supporters equally he's very divisive and the country is split down the middle over whether they support or oppose him and all the recent opinion polls have suggested that earth one is. short of the fifty percent plus one vote he needs to win in the election and observers point out if a formidable opponent does emerge as a challenger he could be in trouble a lot of people are talking about the leader of this new e.p. party auction or as that person she needs one hundred thousand signatures to make her eligible to stand in the election she's doing that now so it could be much closer than we expect dorian just briefly if you can how much have turkey second ana troubles really played a role in the decision

as a.k. did it provocation. which is the latest narrative. the latest one you were talking about, he was poisoned with buckwheat. brought.daughter ofse are the same kinds tools and tactics. i do think it is effective in muddying the water. there are a lot of people that don't really know what to think. they give the russian strategy of plausible deniability more leverage. >> that answers a question i was going to put forward. it is a little bit the question a lot of us were asking. was,it became how clear it the russian state was meddling in our election. did they think they were going to keep that as a covert operation? or did they not really care? the same question comes up with the poisoning. hand, i can imagine them saying, there will be some fallout and we will lie. confuse people, which they are doing. justll also teach not formerrs from russia, spies, it will say, we can take care of ourselves and our interests anywhere in the world. >> i think it was very similar, or not to similar from the the dupont circle hotel. you see the u.s. go