attacks, economically destabilizes the country to some extent. so we ought to be prepared for a long haul crisis rather than for something sudden. >> the russians today submitted their 11-page written response to the u.s. after the u.s. sent their thoughts, their statements, to the russians. it took a weekend for the u.s. to reply to russia. russia took three weeks to come back with an answer. and it seems like it's just written statements of what was discussed in person. they have their demands. the u.s. is not going to meet them. any surprise here? what's the relevance of this paper traffic? >> there is no relevance. if diplomacy is going to work, it's not going to happen in formal written statement. it's going to happen because putin essentially tells us sergey lavrov, the foreign minister, to cut a deal and he'll give them certain parameters. this is theater to either