it is a clear act of aggression we can get the thoughts now or make us ambassador for a ship peter galbraith he's on the he's joining us now good to have you on peter what are your thoughts here is this a clear violation of international law. i don't know that it is but i think this tit for tat. expulsion of diplomats reduction of diplomatic personnel is not at all helpful as. gandhi said an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind and while it's true that there are some serious issues in u.s. russia relations obviously russia's interference in the american elections. and other issues there's also a many areas for cooperation the iran's nuclear deal. how to deal with north korea a common interest in dealing with global climate change and certainly a common interest in combating this phony islamic extremism and terrorism so and that requires robust diplomatic missions and in each other's countries and frankly i have many disagreements with donald trump. but the one thing that i had hoped the administration might do is in fact to improve relations with russia and obviously that's not happening. wi