believe in american democracy, it s not hard to make that point by the way, when you have a candidate in fact, donald trump himself, saying the system is rigged. douglas, what does putin want. what does russia want to get out of this? traditional russian expansionism, we tried to contain it in the cold war, it s rearing its head again. they want more of a free rain in the ukraine, they like to have assad back in power in syria. they d like to be left alone by the united states in doing that, they see in donald trump, somebody that s going to treat them as a partner. barack obama has zero love loss for the putin government. george w. bush flirted with putin for a moment, and then backtracked from that. for putin, who is feeling the economic sanctions, who s feeling isolated, oil presses have dropped, he d like to get back into the game with the