that further if there is an invasion and have you received any assurances from germany when chancellor murkel was here, there was a discussion about what to do if russia wasn't honest with the gas supplies. but nothing came of. that even though there were some pretty saber rattling by the russians in recent months. have you now received assurances from germany that they will, in fact, not proceed with that? >> so, in response to an earlier question, i said i wasn't going to get into the specific sanctions measures that we intend to impose. although, we will be communicating those directly to our russian counterparts and we will be working through them detail by detail with our european counterparts. what i will tell you is the subject of the future of nordstream 2 in the context of an invasion of ukraine via russia in the coming weeks is a topic of utmost priority. it has been discussed