global security, human rights and civil society. that's about the relationship. so if that is not working, then where is the relationship? also i would say that will right at the top where they say, you know, we value the achievements we had in the first term, now, what they're not saying is the first term was with another russian president and that was president medvedev. what's unstated here though is that now there is the nut old russian president who is vladimir putin, and this relationship is going south. here are the problems. so in a sense, you could say although the names are not there, this really is pretty personal statement to where the relationship is right now and the very major problems. >> jill dougherty, phil black and jessica yellin, many thanks. meanwhile, president obama makes a return appearance to late night tv, but this time, very few laughs and lots of serious topics. in an appearance on the "tonight