try to resurrect, reassemble th former russian imperial empire which of course begs the question of what are his ambitions beyond ukraine if in fact he is able to swallow this porcupine and i think our goal has to obviously be to get him bogged down in ukraine so he can't set his sights on the baltics, on georgia, on mulled over a. >> and that is, the question that also comes up is these reports that we are hearing tha we have not independently verified that to some capacity vladimir putin is intimating there might be a point in the coming days where he is willing to listen to may be some type o negotiation. deep believe that or should we stick to the policy of not leaving a single word vladimir putin has to say?