relations with putin by president obama. he wants to engage with putin in his own time and his own way. this is a way of delaying the whole thing. that's how i see it. >> steve, what do you make of trump continuing to question the analysis about russia behind it? >> i think it's going to continue to complicate his initial relationship with the intelligence community. i mean look, there's a lot of professionals, certainly i worked with them in the cia that republicans, democrats, people who are pro-cia and anty cia. this is a little different. not only has he cast aspersions on the intelligence and organizations themselves, but on the issue of russian hacking he has said i doubt what you're telling me and turned around and done a virtual high five to putin and saying good job with how you handled this whole situation. that's going to sting. >> and bob, the former cia director james woolsey who is a