a bit of overkill because we ve already actually sanctioned or punished russia for the attempted assassination of the two people in britain. eric: why do you think they are such seemingly a disconnect between what the president says or does not say about vladimir putin and russia and yet, seemingly tougher measures that his administration has been taking? some say far beyond some previous administrations. i think you have a bit of a runaway national security bureaucracy. the mattress money is done in the bureaucracy.frankly they don t want the president to succeed in trying to improve relations with russia. you point out we ve already taken a number of steps to get much tougher on russia than the previous administration. we have armed ukrainians fighting russian proxies. we ve expelled a number of russian diplomats. closed consulates in san francisco and seattle kicking out a bunch of russian spies. now this latest again, we are ready punish them for this activity happened in anoth