other world leaders in the same way. we even said that he might see crimeas a being part of russia, and he might consider lifting russian sarngss. but when the hacking evidence came out and obama commissioned the report on the election, it became politically impossible for there to be a relationship there. that is when we saw cooling off. the u.s. government is saying that crimea is part of ukraine. so the public statements have shifted to being apart from vladim vladim vladim vladimir putin, no they are not friends. they have spoken on the phone three times. the last strongest thing we may have heard trump say in favor of putin is that we might be able to have a relationship. and that was pretty much the end omp it. and the russians know that