especially vis-a-vis foreign policy? it's got to be none other than vladimir putin. i mean, vladimir putin is now, you know, running up and down the syrian border with his military forces opposite turkey, you know, with russian flags going in to abandoned u.s. bases there and making a big propaganda deal of it. he's holding back funding or was holding back funding not empowering ukraine to fight back against russia. fighting within nato allies like turkey. vladimir putin wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks i must be dreaming, this is absolutely fabulous. it benefits nobody more than vladimir putin in my view. >> according to the "washington post" this information came from george kent the state department official who testified in front of congress last week. it's so interesting to me because for the last two years, trump, you know, supporters on television and elsewhere have been saying and the president himself has been saying nobody's been tougher on russia than donald trump, and really the only kind of main thing they look at is sanctions, which were