attacking our sovereignty. so attacking u.s. sovereignty wasn't a red line for canceling a meeting and the president has a consistency problem if he's now claiming russia's violation of the territorial integrity is why he's not meeting putin. plus, he to date has pursued a strategy that love and the answer. he's embraced despots and said talking at a summit level is better than not talking at all. >> this is contrary to that. >> he's undermining whatever semblance of a national security strategy he had before by saying my executive time is actually a reward for good behavior and now i'm not going to give it to you because of ukraine. >> there's been a combo or quite a range of reaction, if you will, max, to the president canceling this meeting with putin. let me play the reaction that came from democratic senator bob menendez when i spoke with him yesterday. >> just avoiding a meeting doesn't speak to all the issues that are out there.