security room. we have deputies meetings. they have classified top-secret encrypted phones, red phones on every desk where we can talk to each other. so it's an astonishing incoherence in the process. but it all -- you know, it was interesting listening to the line about essentially warning the president don't congratulate putin. who needs to warn the president of the united states not congratulate putin on a sham election in a country where he's almost running a kleptocracy? you know, the 50 biggest oligarchs hopefully in the last couple months have lost $12 billion. the russian economy is in shambles. the sanctions are working. so i've never seen anything like it. >> let me take you all the way back to friday night, the last time you and i spoke, general. and we were talking about the cruise missile strikes in syria.