russians are being told, it's what they're not being told. the reason this narrative works so easily is that they're not actually being told directly what their military is doing. you know, today we heard, the russian defense minister sergey shoygu in a meeting with putin saying some of these exercises are wrapping up, we'll see troops determined, but they never formally declared those troops had moved. they didn't tell the russian people that the 41st combined army was moved from the border with siberia to ukraine, so it makes it very easy to paint everything we're doing here as some kind of hostile information exercise with some bad motives on the other end of it. >> president biden keeps pushing for a diplomatic solution, but there doesn't seem to be much of a chance. is there an expectation behind the scenes that there will be some sort of conflict between russia and ukraine, either way? >> well, the national security adviser is still warning that the u.s. believes that there could be a russian attack, an invasion of ukraine, as early as