Dispatch from the oval office. this is a guy who's been trolling the former soviet union and the somer warsaw pact nations for years, picking up clients, doing deals, signing huge consultancy contracts. he is not just some lawyer. howard: so you're saying the media criticism is fair. >> he was freelancing foreign policy for the president, a president who had an ambassador in kiev and who has a foreign policy team whose advice he routinely ignores. howard: he did replace the ambassador in kiev. now, before we go to break, world news tonight and gma were reporting on turkish airstrikes in syria ...