met with the equivalent of their legislator, what can you tell the american people tonight about the state of u.s.-russian relations under president trump? >> i think from both sides, our relations are the worst theyou have been since the height of b the cold war. this is a real tragedy. one of the great things that ronald reagan did was sitting down with gorbachev. one of the highlights for me, i got to sit down for an hour with former president gorbachev and talk about his recollections with ronald reagan, but also talk about how both sides, both ronald reagan and gorbachev, had to defy the orthodoxy of theirot country to sit down and come to agreements. they didn't, you know, call each other names, they didn't say a murderous thug and talk about the terrible things, some of which did happen, there are a -- which did happen throughout a long period of time in the soviet union, they sat down and said let's make it better and they did. >> laura: are some of these government officials going to be coming to the united states? and are you extended an invitation with some thought of trump meeting with putin, i guess that's off the table.