time if it does attack the kurds of course who are allies of the u.s. want to bring in frederik pleitgen to digest all of this live in moscow. let's start here, the fact that the president of the united states actually asked if he was a russian agent possibly working on behalf of russia, concealing his discussions with putin. that is the reporting. any reaction from moscow yet? >> reporter: well, look, this was all over russian media the entire weekend, state run media, that really revels in all of this, especially the sort of perceived political chaos that we've been seeing in washington, also some of the rebuttals that president trump, the angry rebuttals that president trump put out there via twitter and then that interview we were seeing the segment of. the one agency that we haven't heard from yet has been the kremlin. it is usually around this time the kremlin has a conference call with journalists where they talk about a wide array of issues. and you can ask some questions.