upper hand with them when our president can be end run like that in an op-ed in the new york times that essentially humiliates him and addressed the american people. the fact that we got into a position where that can happen, i thought was rather grim. >> i think the white house handled the reaction to the putin op-ed well. they didn't dwell on it. there was buzz everywhere else with the consensus being that it took a lot of chutzpah and president obama turned the other cheek and focused on the goal. i thought the white house handled that part of things well. >> that's p.r., but the russian president feels free to go around the president, speak directly to the american people. he knew how to do it and it happened. that's the problem. >> what's disgusting to me is there is an american p.r. firm that for years has been taking money from russia and representing them and being their p.r. representative in america. i don't believe for a second that vladimir putin wrote that