>> this is exactly what does putin want from the u.s. president somebody who will not stand by the europeans who sees germany as a bigger threat than russia will not call out the russians, not make them pay a price for their aggression against us. he has all of that. >> though in that "wall street journal" op-ed that h.r. mcmaster and gary cohn penned they said the president did support article 5. what point did he say that? >> what the europeans heard and it's clear what the europeans heard, particularly angela merkel when she went back and talked to her audience they heard there was not support for article 5. it doesn't matter what h.r. mcmaster says in the "wall street journal." about this being for a domestic audience, the applause when he said the word sovereignty was amazing. so clear that was a code word for them, we are russia and inviable. i wanted to ask max a question, this strategy of saying patriotically minded people might have done it sounds like the way journalists get killed