among the many questions one asked by our peter ducey who wanted to know if the president had in fact underestimated vladimir putin. he had this tweet back on the campaign trail couple of years ago where he said bruton was somehow would be intimidated by him he doesn't want to face him because he's the only guy to to with prudent. peter was getting around to asking about that. also, peter alexander from nbc asked if the president could do more with respect to sanctions why not do because this sort of piecemeal for some tray doesn't seem to make sense give the fact that the u.s. and our international partners waited s long to actually go to a sanctions platform against russia knowing full well that there were warning signs long before now. >> and when asked about that cover the president came out an said these sanctions were never meant to deter any kind of