political career to get him to say something negative, anything negative about russia or vladimir putin. trump's strange admiration and total deference to putin has turned into a behavior pattern that now makes the president look either guilty or crazy or both because there is now an ongoing investigation of donald trump and his family and his campaign associates, possible collusion with russia during the campaign. you would think that a sane and rational politician would go out of his way to show his independence from russia, his willingness to challenge putin. but for going on two years now, we've gotten the opposite. experienced foreign policy veterans accustomed to dealing -- knew that the day would come when president trump was forced to confront russia and vladimir putin.