white house officials from the vice president this morning on the morning news shows to the chief of staff have said if russia takes aggressive action, it should expect severe and serious consequences. nbc's matt bodner is here for us. how is this all landing overseas? >> reporter: craig, good morning. well, there was obviously a sense, kind of a sigh of disappointment. you could feel it this morning among a lot of european powers and allies. especially some of the more vocal supporters of ukraine and obviously ukrainian president's tweet was evidence that ukraine wasn't exactly thrilled to hear that either. and the reason i think this particular comment is getting so much attention is because it's exactly the kind of thing that russia probably wants to hear on the eve of secretary of state blinken meeting with his counterpart in geneva. russia is signaling it's prepared to go quite far to