costs. >> you sit on committee of foreign relations obviously. do you feel as though the united states and european allies are on the same page when it comes to how to deal with the threat from russia? >> i think it's taken a little time to convince our european allies of the seriousness of this threat. remember, russia had tens of thousands, close to 100,000 -- maybe a little bit more -- troops on ukraine's border in the spring conducting exercises. i think we have had to spend some time with our european allies to convince them that this is serious. and that, together, our proposed sanctions that we make clear to russia should they invade will be imposed could, in fact, be the necessary deterrent. so, my sense is the british have been with us from the beginning and that other european allies are coming along to our view and are now finally willing to sort of put up a set of potential sanctions that may ultimately be