brent holding above $71 a barrel. tom: we do economics, finance investment, and international relations and politics. morning with marvin barth of barclays, head of european fx strategy. taking a global, holistic view on the economy. joining us today on a very robust president. i think this is fascinating. withrite like hemingway next to no words. the president goes on and on. is there anyone to make him concise? >> as we know, the answer to that is no. you cannot get him to stick to talking points. you cannot get him to stick to what his own administration's position is. getting him to write in short, concise, declarative sentences is a nonstarter. tom: i put a little bit out on twitter yesterday. his writing on bloomberg opinion, i thought this was forceful on a huge amount of writing overnight. the presidents 40 minute press conference on -- on as separate idea, he goes on to say all previous presidents have eventually come to the same conclusion -- when we try to --sheith him, putin really emphasized erdogan, there erdogan,erdogan, late and we forget the early putin. how much different is putin?