blamed the united states for russian aggression. today's russia's foreign ministry retweeted the president. the russian foreign ministry said this. we agree apartment the president tweeted "our relationship with russia has never been worse thanks to foolishness and stupidity and now the rigged witch hunt." let's bring in james jeffery, former deputy security adviser to george w. bush. he served as ambassador to turkey, iraq and albania. he's a distinguished fellow at the washington institute which bills itself as a foreign policy think tank in washington d.c. good to be here. thank you. your reaction. >> first of all, i was ininvolved in many of these "mistakes." we did some things wrong in the 90s and the last decades with russia but we were trying to