intelligence with ukraine and our european partners. >> and we also heard in that briefing a little bit more of a window into what these sanctions could include. one of the officials said that they would include things like export controls that would make it essentially impossible for russians to get access to certain types of u.s. technology and products. also moves that would make it a lot more difficult to do foreign borrowing and foreign financial transactions. look for the president again to reiterate that, to reiterate the steps that they're taking, but to also again provide this increasingly grim assessment of the potential that we are now looking at for a conflict here. >> increasingly grim as you put it, shannon. erin, what are you hearing and seeing on the ground there with the west concerned about these signals that russia as shannon laid out, as we had actually talked about right before coming on the air, this seems more and more potentially like a matter of when and not if. you've got these pro-russian separatists in the eastern part of ukraine evacuating their people essentially. tell me more.