senator tom udall long opponent of the open skies treaty has applauded the idea of pulling out of the treaty donald trump alleges that russia is not fully complying with the open skies treaty and he's announced that the usa is going to withdraw take a listen to u.s. president donald trump. our relationship with russia has come a long way though as a few months i think that the open sky will all work out but right now when you have an agreement and the other side doesn't it had to the agreement would not have a add to it either but i think something very positive over. now the open skies treaty was quite a long time in the making it was the idea of the century having mutual aerial observation between the united states and russia to ensure compliance with weapons agreements and such that both countries would be allowed to monitor each other through the skies now it was 1st floated the idea by u.s. president eisenhower in 1955 but it took quite a long time it wasn't ratified the treaty was not signed until 1992 and it remained in effect it allowed the united states and russia to observe