two leaders. >> do you sometimes sit in your office thinking of how badly u.s. relations are going and regretting the day that donald trump was elected? >> translator: what we see is merely the anti-russian hysteria and, yes, i regret it. it's a pity. acting together, we are more able to solve the acute problems that exist in the world. >> reporter: a year on from trump's inauguration, the grand celebrations held in moscow as he was sworn in. that dream of a u.s./russian partnership seems more distant than ever. george, there's no sense in which it's getting closer, either, that dream. the u.s. congress is expects to consider ratcheting up the economic sanctions against russia. that could plunge the difficult relationship between the two countries into a deeper crisis.