our team is on the ground. we have our chief negotiator and the full team there. they're working every moment. i've been in touch with them constantly through the day. and we'll see where we are tomorrow when some judgments have to be made. thank you all. appreciate it. thanks. >> you've been listening to secretary of state john kerry following his comments in paris at the u.s. ambassador's residence there. these comments follow his meeting with the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov. they were discussing the crisis in ukraine. in secretary kerry's words, that conversation with lavrov was, quote, a frank conversation. he said that the u.s. made clear in that conversation that it still views russia's actions in crimea as, in his words, illegal and illegitimate. on the key question of the russian forces now deployed some 40,000 russian forces on that border of eastern ukraine, which the u.s., he said, views as