missiles. we're very much at the precipice of the tensions increasing and an arms race should not be anything we support. as much as we want answers about if there's any type of connection, if anything is going on between vladimir putin and president trump, i do want us to take a little bit of pause before jumping and hoping for aggressive rhetoric, necessarily. >> i know the aggressive rhetoric never seems to work anyway. morris, let's turn to the stormy daniels controversy. the white house still side steps the questions of allegations of any hush money paid to her about sexual relationship with donald trump. here's the principal deputy secretary earlier today. >> did the president approve the payment that his personal lawyer made to stormy daniels? >> not that i'm aware of. but michael cohen, the attorney in question, has addressed this. the white hoss addressed, sarah addressed it earlier this week and i have nothing further to add. >> did the president reimburse