his statements matter, he s the leader of the united states, leader of the free world. words have consequences. john: we had an interesting guest on with martha yesterday, a soviet spy in the united states, in turn, he helped out the fbi, he said you cannot walk this back. you can walk that statement back 100 times, it was out. every time our president makes a personal attack on vladimir putin i cringe because putin is paranoid. john: you need to be tough with putin, that s what he understands. but feeding his paranoia the right thing to do? i think speaking from the position of american strebt is always where we need to be coming from, john. but as you say, not off the cuff, not offhand remarks, not slipping up and walking it back with statements that could be paranoia, very dangerous. john: peace talks occurring