conscious decision not to retaliate butz come january 20th it will be a whole lot easier for donald trump to reverse these actions by the obama administration. how much of that is true do you think? >> i think that's right on. i think there's a real problem in president obama. he's the actor here. president-elect trump is watching and commenting from the sidelines for another three weeks. oefb realizes he'll be president and a very important figure, but decisions that have been made by president obama haven't been very shrewd. these sanctions, for example, are not particularly strong. they could have been if someone was willing to go as far as not let the russians use dollars in international exchanges but nobody's taken a step like that. so you ended up closing a couple of summer houses, having three