in moscow and senior affairs analyst michael weiss. you first. is president trump being played in putin's game or is this cunning strategy on the president of the united states's part? >> i'm not sure whether he is being played, but what we can see in russia is the rugs are happy with what they are seeing and hearing from president trump. one of the things you heard after that meeting in vietnam is that the russians are really trying to give everything a positive spin. there was no formal meeting between putin and president trump. the russians are saying that's not really a problem. the two came together in informal meetings and got the syria declaration together am the spokesman said it didn't matter. there was no formal meeting. the russians certainly seem to be hearing from president trump what they want to be hearing. one thing i think is really, really important because a couple of weeks ago they were down on president trump. it didn't seem as though they