this is the lack of common sense when it comes to dealing with the russians, which he says goes all the way to the top of our government. do you agree with that? >> there is a lot of different layers to that. in general, i would say yes, and it's not just our government and this administration. i mean, i've said many times i think probably on your show that there have been a lot of american presidents, former president obama and bush to start with who said yes, we can work things with the russian government, there is a prevailing sense, a very western sense that hey, we need to cooperate with the russians and work together on this. but on something like this when you talk about about embassy security, it's very, very difficult. the americans, the state department, the american side often times proposed to the russians for example, that we use an american company, an american private security firm to provide this middle layer of security instead of russians. the russians have flatly denied this, why? because they want as many spies as they can inside the embassy to make it the most watched place on the face of the planet, which it pretty much is. so it's a difficult balancing act, we do have to go into it with our eyes open but there are certain limitations when you are operating in putin's back yard. >> steve, paul, thank you very