brussels to reason fallon director of the center for russia europe asia studies and in istanbul matthew bryza former director for europe and eurasia at the national security council and a former u.s. diplomat welcome to the program to reset let me start with you what happens now i mean it's a 6 month process until russia is fully withdrawn from the open skies treaty correct. that's correct so this could be a canvas soft opening for the biden administration and it's it's really unclear right now what will happen because we know that. the start treaty expires in february so this open skies agreement is seen as kind of. at the beginning of the whole negotiation for start is considered a smaller agreement as you mentioned in your program the issue of technology has changed we can look at google maps and see some of these things even those some of the planes would have more sensitive data collection so the issue on both sides of the aisle were that. for example russia wasn't allowing plates or any grab and so we see even the personalization of this trump is president trump is very upset with the r

in a statement, the foreign ministry said: let's talk to matthew bryza.. it is an extraordinary to see countries around the world, allies and some adversaries like turkey, which has its own flawed reputation for democratic processes, schooling the united states on how to enact democracy, isn't it? it sure is. for me, it's really painful. i spent so many days and hours delivering to marshes to the countries where i was serving, talking about how it was important to maintain them across the principal. something like that this happen in azerbaijan, washington would have been going crazy. attacking them for being undemocratic. as a former diplomat, this is really painful. our credibility is shot for some amount of time. though there is a possibility to fix this if what speaker pelosi said happens, which is either the 25th amendment is implemented or... it interesting listening to the reaction from european leaders because they are a group who has trod very carefully around donald trump. they have watched his response to strongman around the world and they've