chosen to implement sanctions, he's not exactly been a hypercritical leader on the world stage of voshked out but if you take, for example, the steele dossier at face value or take that as any kind of guide, there was internal dissent within the russian government about whether or not and to what extent the russians should interfere in the u.s. election and coordinate with donald trump and there were some saying that it was too ambitious, they were going get caught, it was just not a good idea and apparently putin was very, very set on this project. but i think to say knew there is this buyer's remorse among the kremlin and in the russian government broadly for helping to elect donald trump kind of ignores the entire context of what they got in return which is no more sanctions and a president -- a u.s. president that will not criticize putin on the world stage. >> and yet, david, they have to know, the hostility that's been generated in the united states here makes it difficult for a lot of things to happen. like the chinese. it's almost like you look at the china example. donald trum