strikes in syria were quote a violation of law. tillerson says it is important never to repeat such strikes. i believe it was lavrov, but creme lkremlin kremlin. relations are worse now under president trump than before. what do you make of the conversations as we speak? >> i think it just under scores how unrealistic the expectations were on both sides of how much leeway a president trump has to reset american relations with russia given the difficult vver the subjects on their agendas. and that overestimated how important that was that dislodging isis was not as important to russia and reinforcing assad.