testimony and the fort worth self, report itself, it's the predicate for a lot of his foreign policy moves, the emphasis on the upcoming kim summit and some of these other pieces. but on russia you see this really interesting kind of dual track thing where on the one hand there's the sanctions with some of the ways the president has seemed to take putin's advice or assurances on things. and on the other hand you see the u.s. preparing to suspend and probably withdraw from the inf treaty this coming weekend. on russia there's still a lot of juxtaposition. it's confusing if you're following along. but overall it's embarrassing for the president to have simultaneously his entire intelligence community and key senators like mitch mcconnell use the legislative process and congressional hearings to raise real questions and slow down the pace of withdrawal from syria,