counter proposals. it's diplomacy on their terms, we will only address your counter proposals in the context, as part of a package of you accepting, essentially, all of those original demands that got us into the situation in the first place. so, it really doesn't paint the most optimistic picture, when you look at it as a whole. >> matthew bauder, live in moscow, tonight, thank you so much matthew, it was great, i really appreciated. john brennan is a former director of the cia, now a msnbc senior intelligence analyst, he joins me now. first, let's start with the intelligence strategy, the sort of combination of intelligence and public relations strategy, in which you have the americans president, the american secretary of state making fairly confident announcements, predictions about what might be in suing. slightly hedge, but not super hedged, why do you think they have undertaken that strategy, what is the intent here,? >> well president biden's comments today, really were