and he has been driven since then to restore some of the glory of what was then the soviet union. and do you see him doing that now and is that driving the way he is using donald trump as somebody he can help control? >> that's a very important point, walter. and it's a cautionary tail tale as we as well. he was a deliver of putin. he acknowledged the night the wall came down he wept because he saw the collapse of the empire to which he had devoted his life. i was at the infamous prison where they imprisoned people. i saw four miles of files that the east was keeping on german residents of the east. it was a horrendous empire. and of course it had nuclear weapons in its arsenal as well. so the time had come for it to go away, but there still is a