what he says, take what he does. what our u.n. ambassador said about ukraine or the fact we now have secretary of defense and secretary of state and cia director and director of homeland security all of whom see russia clear eyed. e psident rebuilding military, expanding military arsenal. none of those things look good if you're sitting in moscow. i think it's time to take a moment and wait for president trump to have a fully staffed cabinet and explain the posture he wants to take toward russia. it would be good if we had a better relationship. frankly i don't see that relationship happening on any grounds other than american strength and pressure against russian provocations. >> senator cotton, it's jeff goldberg. you and i have spoken quite a bit about putin and donald trump. my question is simply this. if president obama had said -- had made the moral equation between the united states and russia, i don't think your reaction would have been the same. so why are you so for giving of