vis-a-vis russia. how can you work even as an intelligence service or when you show up in a place like syria and you see russian contractors or russian military squaring off literally with u.s. military personnel at different times. what are we supposed to be doing? are we aligned with them, are we fighting with them? how does this proceed moving forward? it's got to be a confusing landscape. >> the president at one point asked one of the baltic leaders to repeat her praise from a private meeting in the oval office in front of the cameras. it remind add led a lot of folkt the cabinet meetings where they went around in sequence and everybody had to compliment the president out loud. >> the president is certainly not shy to praise people who praise him in his presence. he loves to kind of have that