a coherent way around russia and, therefore, they wanted to tilt the election his way. i would say that was a pretty good bet. when you think about it, anderson, to say one other thing, for less than the cost of a mig-29 fighter jet, look what putin bought. >> the president talking about sort of aligning with russia on some sort of cyber initiative and then now clearly back tracking from that because the reaction to it has been understandably people are saying it's ludicrous. does it surprise you that the president at this stage would suggest something like that? >> well, you know, i think that really senator lindsey graham got it best. if that isn't the dumbest idea that i've ever heard of, it's surely right up there in the top three. and the notion that the president of the united states would talk about collaborating on a kind of somehow cyber security unit with a country that just hacked our democratic election, which uses secret