>> well, it's very personal to somebody who wants to take over and be powerful. the idea of not having the power in hand is obviously very offensive to him. mike, let me get the last word from you here. the idea of how you think president biden, the commander in chief, is handling all of this right now? we know it's not a part of nato. it's not just about nato membership or not. how do you think the biden administration is dealing with this. what do you think the biden administration is doing about this? good job or bad? >> you know, mediocre at best, and i don't say that lightly. diplomacy is really the only option you have at this point. but one of the things i think they swung and missed, and they did this the last go-around in ukraine when so many of their national security people were there, is the ukrainians were saying, let us fight against this high-tech weaponry that we know the russians are massing on our border, and it's been trickling in. if you wanted to send a message that putin is going to pay a