certainly moscow thought it got incredibly lucky with the election and they thought they presumed america functions the same way russia does, trump would say the word and sanctions would fall and of course, america still doesn't function quite the way russia does, and i think at this point putin wishes he were dealing with hillary because she would be consistent and predictable and trump hijacked his madman on the act. >> that's very interesting. you wrote a lot about your sort of worry about the american rhetoric around russia, which is a worry i partly share. you can sort of see shades of this kind of oh, so and so met with a russian like meeting with a russian is great offense but i was thinking about this story. >> you're doing the right now, chris. >> i was thinking about this story in the washington post that just started, one we reported on with a freelancer writing with a leftist site website who proved to be a