since early july they said so it's not immediate but how the president is dealing with this and how he is perceived weakness, loss of mojo, do you believe these are fair criticisms? >> i don't think it's a fair criticism but it's fair to say that is acting as a kind of background condition in explaining the decision to cancel the summit. look part of the problem, the president said it on "jay leno" we're looking forward trying to further relations with the russians. remember putin joined the kgb, russia's spy serve in 1975 at the height of the cold war, and he stayed in it until 1991, literally when the soviet union collapsed is when he resigned from the kgb. obama in 1975 was playing basketball in hawaii. these are very different people with a very different outlook on the world. >> but right now it does seem as