so-called budding partnership. i would not go so far as to cal an alliance. i called and marriage of convenience. in president she a potential backer she gets help from president exide. washington criticized the timin of the trip coming days after the international criminal cour issued an arrest warrant for wladimir putin on the war crime charges. live in dc think thank you with us now the former director of the national counterintelligence and securit center. great to have you on pr writes the following telling moment came as she bid farewell to putin following a steak dinner at the criminal into his day. right now there are changes at the likes of which we have not seen before at 100 years. she told putin and we are the ones driving these changes. had if you re in charge of