as this. particularly without explanation. you can imagine if the u.s. president was away for ten days and nobody knew where he was, it would be utter chaos, i expect. he did make light of it. he said look i m not going to explain it. but things would be very boring i m paraphrasing things would be boring without gossip. you know, you got the sense he was smiling. he was quietly enjoying all the attention that he was getting. over the weekend, there was a documentary, as you know matthew that aired on russian tv in which putin supposedly claimed he was ready to put russia s nuclear forces on alert over last year s crisis in crimea. what are we to make of this? that s right. he said this in his documentary. that was broadcast on sunday night local time. a big documently.