a lot harder than i thought for them to control what's going on in north korea. so we're seeing the progress and some of these other very important international relationships and it seems like he hasn't gotten there yet with vladimir putin. people are very much counting on his secretary of state rex tillerson to make some inroads with putin and we haven't seen that yet on this issue. >> every scholar of putin will tell you that, that he is driven, consumed by a view that the dissolution of the sof yovi was a historic mistake that led the weakening of russia's hand in the world. he is determined to restore that kind of standing. to ab bb's point, he wants to me good deals. at a political level here in