been seeing through the weekend on russian television. russian television almost moving to a war footing and making unverifiable claims of attacks on eastern ukraine, even today claiming that the group of ukrainians tried to cross the border into russia. again, automatic of this looks like the drumbeat of war, looks like the russian media and government preparing the russian people for war, or maybe they're still just threatening. >> evelyn, let's talk about the potential military signs of how you see this developing. do you see it potentially as a slowly developing isolated incursion and putin sends some back to the east, the separatists? or do you expect what president biden indicated, kind of a blitzkrieg attack on the capital itself? >> chris, up until president biden said what he did on friday, i was convinced that vladimir putin would use his military, seize the area in the