lavrov is not in president putin's inner circle. now the question is, what is president putin planning to do? we know what he thinks. we know what he can do, what his capability is. what is he planning to do? that is a duffle question because as we have said many times, president putin doesn't use cell phones easily accessible. doesn't use e-mail. does he that deliberately. he talks on secure lines to that small group of hard line visors. so what does president putin plan? he plans to wait and see how things pan out or perhaps all of these forces on the borders have a purpose and just in the coming days. >> yeah. understood. really appreciate the perspective and the reporting. as you said, the honesty as we deal with all of this. to both of our colleagues here, matt and keir, thank you. i bounce back to our foreign