bullying the world community, but it was perhaps a larger response or a stronger response against russia than russia may have anticipated after the poisoning in this country of a former russian spy and his daughter. >> ambassador burns, as you heard the ambassador and sergey lavrov threatening the united states, threatening the countries, what kind of retaliation do you expect? >> i think you have to fully expect putin, a kgb person after all, will hit back and we will see a series of european and canadian and american diplomats expelled from russia. we expected that. i think the trump administration was right to agree to this. we had to respond to this. it was really the french president, emmanuel macron, the german chancellor and british prime minister who led this and said this is the first use of a nerve agent since world war ii. there had to be a big response. it's the largest expulsion ever. and i think the hope is by the