russians in every conceivable way short to make sure they gave up crimea. 2012, the rusussians were vereyarly hoping that barack obama would win and mitt romney would lose because romney was going around in the russians were the number one geopolitical threat and we have to be much more belligerent and confronting them, whereas obama was saying that is cold war thinking and we should try to get along with them a lot better. and russian elections in the past like when boris yeltsin was running, the us want to bore seals and win because they knew he would privatize use industry in a way that would help u.s. companies so they metal their election -- so they meddled in their election. i think david is right. hillary clinton's agenda, she was for a critical of obama for not confronting putin in ukraine, not confronting putin in syria, for not doing more to sanction russian oligarchs. obama's position wasas closer to trump's, which was, we should try to get along with russia. we do not want to provoke putin unnecessarily. he is not that powerful over things like ukraine and syria, which are --