sanctions package that was more damaging to the russian operations near the u.s. was the expelling of 35 russian diplomats, probably most of them intelligence officers. so yeah, they shut down the two -- the two vacation sites, the two da chas and were they being used operationally, who knows. they're good spies, they would figure out ways to use the locations but it's really a hard -- it's a hard thing. i mean, they got the intelligence and then the question is from a policy perspective what do they do? that's what's fascinating about "the post" article. you have the one end of the spectrum, you go cyber warnary fair and then you look at the sanctions. it's not as easy as it seems to come one a good response when sitting here, you know, there's a pundit trying to say this is what they should have done. some pretty tough choices there. >> alan, president trump has been getting classified briefings as well since he was nominated last summer and he's known russia hacked the election