the old guard who ran the cold war were basically victims of the great war we call world war ii. they were paranoid. putin is not paranoid. he's aggressive. he wants to create an economic war pact. i think he's got to look at his options before he moves forward. >> howard, back to the u.s. politics of this, you were saying that republicans' attacks on the president are an attempt to sort of take down the first credible democratic commander in chief in a while. they also potentially have blow back on hillary clinton. as secretary of state hillary clinton was really the face of the so-called russian reset. so it seems to me that republicans are sort of going after her ability to have clear-eyed strong leadership. back in 2008 her strongest ad was that memorable what are you going to do at 3:00 a.m.