the u.s. secretary of state meeting with putin this week and you have the feeling that putin is playing the u.s. secretary of state when they meet that this is all for show when that putin is really pulling the strings do you think he has that much power when i think that it's a much more complicated. story than that so it's so you have trump with his ideas and you've got putin with his ideas but trump is not all powerful he's not a dictator he operates in a system where the presidency is totally connected to all sorts of other things connected to congress congress can prevent him from lifting sanctions he doesn't even control his own administration so he has his defense secretary he would tell him to do things jim matters before he resigned in the gym as wouldn't just wouldn't do him and i know pump aoe is a clear eyed guy about russia and so trump probably says he wants to do certain things with russia and pompei oh probably just doesn't do them. and so when you get