in moscow and that moscow isn't forcing austerity on its own citizens, unlike french president emanuel michael, who suggested that's coming down the pipe when he evoke the quote end of abundance earlier this week. sounds like schultz could use one of those self help courses that teach you to take responsibility and ownership for your own problems rather than trying to project blame for your own choices and actions on to someone else. putin did not sanctioned germany or the you, you can't control what anyone else does, but you sure can control your own reaction to it. and the sanctions where the choice of the you and its members states just went along with it. as for sholtes accusing putin of imperial ambitions. well, what about the european union's imperialism? that imposed its own members, states, imposed sanctions on these own member states by demanding the adoption of these economically and socially suicidal sanctions. now, the unelected bureaucrats in brussels came up with these sanctions, and the member states were just expected to apply them on their own citizens without any democratic c

neil: michael, thank you for that, very much. mike emanuels a long way from being over. katie cher kaskey, former federal prosecutor, constitutional law attorney. we're always talking remotely. great to see you. where does this go, katie? what is your best bet, first on this idea of some sort of master third party observer looking at everything, what do you think? >> well that doj's filing really tells us what i think we already knew, this is a document dispute but they kind of brush over how significant that is, but because president trump did have declassification authority that is something that really will be litigated all the way up through the supreme court. neil: really? >> in terms of actually moving forward with any sort of indictment if that is what they're looking to do, if there was suspicion they were looking to get back the documents but i think the filing last night shows they're really interested pursuing this criminally. neil: that is tough one, isn't it? you have to prove, they have been hinting that he might have obstructed