you so much. joining me now is nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. you're in geneva, as richard was telling us, secretary blinken will be meeting with russia's top diplomat tomorrow. what is the latest on the diplomatic efforts? >> it is a matter of cleanup on aisle three, if you will, because tony blinken today was meeting with the germans, with the french and with the briss here in berlin. before he gets to geneva to meet with lavrov and so many things president biden said last night contradicted what tony blinken has been saying, what the u.s. has been saying in public at least about the unity of the nato alliance, saying they're completely unified about their response to any russian aggression. just last week wendy sherman the top negotiator reporting from brussels from nato saying