lazy or weak to have an ugly situation. that's easy campaign talk, but once you get into the office, reality sets in and you find that your tools are really quite limited. now look, i think the president and his administration has done a pretty good job amping up the pressure on the north koreans. a little demonstration of american military power, a little pressure on the chinese, an awful lot of rhetoric and strong worlds. i think that's all good and frankly a bit of an improvement over the obama administration, but it's not a magic elixir. it's not going to make this problem go away. it simply increases the cost on the north korean regime. >> general, i want to ask you about something that senator chris murphy, whom we just had on, talked about. he is quite concerned that there is a kind of quiet escalation going on in russia right now, particularly in the skies over syria. in fact, you know there is now tension whereby the u.s. shot