brilliant and blistering a putin apologist the most controversial russia exploited america he's stephen f. cohen author of the new book war with russia he joins us for a provocative one on one on this edition of the public. good to politicking on larry king scholar stephen cohen advised president george h.w. bush on the former soviet union he has taught russian studies at princeton n.y.u. published columns in the washington post reuters and elsewhere he recently said that relations between the united states and russia are worse now than at any time says the nineteen fifties. what's behind that claim and who of anyone does he think it improved the relationship between the two countries let's find out as for physical and joins me from new york his latest book is war with russia i'm showing it to you from putin and ukraine to trump and russia gates ok steve invasive words for joining is i thought everything between russia and the united states was going to be better because of the relationship between putin and trump and the fact that russia wanted trump in the office. well i think larry you and i