michelle and she is a former british intelligence officer and writer and in washington we cross to james chatteris he is a former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership all right as always crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate any let me go to you first in brussels you know the lot you were only on last week but the more we learn about what happened with this poisoning incident there's only been one thing that has been consistent russia did it everything else keeps changing it's very fluid except for the conclusion reflect upon that any place well the more we know. apparently because we have a situation where one. potential chain too they had to. have time to notice but second to last in terms of a classic investigation technique. within a few hours the british media was saying it must be russia because he's a russian spy and within a week the russian government saying it was russia so we have a situation where things have escalated ass control in hugely fast ways and to date a month later we still don't even know exactly how the so