to say. is this typical vladimir putin on russian television? >> well, it is actually a familiar story line on his part. let's flash back three years to the ukraine. and all these what they called little green men who suddenly showed up in crimea, you know, facilitating what would ultimately be the annexation by russia. putin saying these aren't my troops. these aren't my people. these may be patriotic russians who happened to be on vacation in crimia. weeks later you essentially had him bragging about the fact that they had this operation he called it that they in fact were russian operatives, russian soldiers who were there doing that. so you see in the past where he sort of keeps a hands off posture, at least, off of something that clearly benefits his government. and there is not a lot of people who probably believe there is a