down to it, again, it s just these tiny little things versus what we were promised which was that putin had bought donald trump and he was in his debt. i mean, you don t have to be that smart to figure out that s not true just by looking at u.s. policy over the last couple of years. we have been very tough on russia and even just in recent weeks we re not happy with them and we are paving that way. ed: mollie, on that point do you acknowledge the president could have been toughery in helsinki. the president has helped with aid to ukraine which rush didn t want. brian: expelled multiple diplomats in this country. ed: he could have been tougher. he could have handled that situation much better. it s true we have had intelligence agencies playing games with this story since the very beginning. you might remember that they took seriously this, you know, frankly silly dossier. they briefed the president on it almost to threaten him