white house is perfectly justified to simply say no, we're not in this for regime change. all my conversations with the administration would indicate the same. let's focus on what the speech was actually about, which is the unity of the nato alliance. >> pick up on that for me, because that's much of what i talked about in the last hour. it's not like vladimir putin didn't thing this is what most americans felt. what most american lawmakers felt as well. to a certain extent, people heard the president say that and said oh, he's saying the quiet part out loud. what is your assessment of what we heard from the president yesterday, and should the white house have even corrected what the president said? >> i think what the president said was a mistake. and i think because it reduces the chances of putin at least in the near term agreeing to some kind of settlement in ukraine, agreeing to pull back his forces. it plays on his paranoia that