relations between the two countries. yet in the last 48 hours the messages between the two about nuclear arms seems, seem almost ominous. it's sort of hard to separate the cold war rhetoric from the warm fuzzies. what do you think is going on here? >> i like that expression, warm fuzz is. it was certainly a chummy letter. you point out, both sides are talking about nuclear armament, president-elect saying he wants to see more nukes and talks about arms race. not talking about russia who exactly is this race with? there's nobody else even close. putin seems to brush that aside by saying, if there's going to be a race it's not going to be us. i think he learned a lesson from the collapse of the soviet union, something he regarded as a disaster, remember. because the soviet union, one of the major reasons for its collapse tshs got into an arms race with the united states. that was not sustainable. that its economy could not sustain. he's saying now we will never spend more money than we can afford to, but he's warning,