homeland security and several other agencies to discuss everything from how the u.s. would enact sanctions on russia to talking about the possibility of humanitarian assistance as well as movements of u.s. troops. the deputy national security adviser john finer said in a statement while ultimately the russians may do something slightly different than the u.s. gamed out, he said, quote, the goal for them, these table top exercises to be a close enough to what they end up doing that the plans are reducing the amount of time we need effectively. that's the whole goal and it's clear these movements led the u.s. to already take some actions now including exposing these attempts by russia, this information warfare that they've been carrying out and also, exposing these potential plans that they may have to save some kind of false flag attack as a pre-condition for their invasion. kate? >> jeremy, it's great to see