taped conversation between two u.s. diplomats that happened to be in the ukraine at the time and were not complimentary to the eu somehow appeared on the web and were being pushed by the soviets. is the soviet union capable kind of as a final question, are they capable -- i'm sorry, the russians, you can tell, right? are the russians capable of protecting these olympics and keeping them safe? do they have the intelligence capability and do they have the manpower capability to make these safe? >> i'm going to hazard the estimation that yes, they do. they have put an awful lot of effort into this. they've collaborated with our security people. i think you can assume they've done just everything they could possibly do to keep the olympics safe. and that's not a guarantee. >> sochi is a fairly small place. it is a contained place. so i agree with ambassador negroponte, they probably can