probably quite impressive, they will be held on saturday. president putin will be there, and this is not to say that they are going to use nuclear missiles at all. i think president biden referred to that, but it's a symbol that they are, they can change the equation. they are, of course, the other superpower when it comes to nuclear missiles. >> kaitlan, do you have any reporting on what president biden plans to do for the weekend now? >> reporter: he'll be here at the white house monitoring this because today when he came out and gave the most direct statement yet, the next question is, is that the step putin takes? and the white house said they hope that is not what he actually does, that they've been very clear, they know they're very up front with their predictions here and their estimates of what he is going to do and secretary blinken said yesterday he hopes he's wrong, that he doesn't actually go in but seems pretty clear he's going to so we're told president biden is going to be here at the white house monitoring this, meeting with national security team, potentially having more