good evening. co chris cuomo is off tonight. there is new reporting in the washington post on conversations with putin, as well as viktor orbon and the president. in them, the two foreign leaders sought to reinforce the president s notion of ukraine as a dysfunctional, corrupt state, a country that russia has invaded. this was happening as his tv lawyer, rudy giuliani, was pushing conspiracy theories about ukraine to the president and with hundreds of millions of dollars in american military aid on the line. i spoke about this and more with democratic congressman and house intelligence committee member jim himes. congressman, what do you make of the washington post reporting the idea that vladimir putin might have helped color president trump s view of ukraine? it does seem another example of something that at this point is shocking but i guess not surprisi surprising. yeah, i read that story and i guess i m not surprised. i didn t happen to be in that particular moment of the