let's live now to william mallinson a former british diplomat and professor at italy's marconi university thanks for joining us on the program today mr balance and just into my first question very quickly the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman is or whatever she says the u.s. plans to search the russian consulate in san francisco and diplomats poppins violates international law is that an accurate statement. very accurate if they dare to do it it violates if you have a convention it's unprecedented for any country to indulge in such an irrational and hysterical and frankly dangerous behavior but it remains to be seen whether they will actually dare to go that far hasn't quite yet happened actually i hope it won't but let's remember that this all goes right back to the clinton obama and what people call the deep state military industrial congressional complex policy of attacking trump in order to attack an improvement in u.s. russia relations that is a very actually horribly rational policy behind the hysteria and paranoia which is being created mainly as a distraction because you have t