back with our world lead. a stern rebuke delivered from one to moscow. in a blistering "new york times" editorial, secretary of state rex tillerson aid quote, we have no illusions about the regime we are dealing with. the united states today has a poor relationship with a resurgent russia that has invaded it's neighbors in the last decade and undermined the sovereignty of western nations by meddling in our elections and others. i'm going to get right to cnn's senior international correspondent, fred planken who is in moscow. and fred, the kremlin i'm guessing didn't take kindly to tillerson's comments today. >> reporter: no, they certainly didn't. the russians in general really lashing out at the u.s. and secretary of state tillerson on various levels, dana. on the one hand they called the op-ed itself confrontational and even fake news and accused secretary of state tillerson of trying to drive a wedge between russia and china because he