longer than the president has. but not surprising that he's chosen -- that trump has chosen to focus on ukraine and syria rather than the hacking allegations. his team has shown a willingness to at least take as tough a stance as the obama administration did when it comes to nikki haley at the u.n. talking about why the sanctions against ukraine are a good idea, when it comes to the strikes against -- in syria, against the assad regime which russia sponsors, that's fine. where the president has never been willing to go fully, though, is to actually take russia on the last serious bilateral problem we had with them, we think you meddled in our elections, potentially for the purpose of helping donald trump win the white house. he's never been really able to touch that. he doesn't sound like he's going to be going there this week when he talks to putin face to face. that would be the most bold move he could take and doesn't sound like they're willing to go there. also doesn't sound like this question of what to do with these two compounds that the russians were using that they were kicked out of at the last