you waiting on sanctions. if you're telling me that war is imminent, that president putin is going to invade almost certainly, why not impose sanctions now. what are you waiting for? and so i think it really underscores the desperation that we are now feeling from this leader whose back is against the wall. you were talking about this earlier today with my colleague, peter alexander. the fact that administration officials had warned him, actually, against leaving the country. there are real concerns that he may be creating an opening for president putin to go in because he's not physically there. he was defiant about that. he said i had my breakfast in ukraine, i will have my dinner in ukraine as well. but this is an incredibly tense situation. >> it is, for the people who don't follow the minutiae of this level of foreign policy with ukraine, and russia, why might we be waiting for the sanctions, does he have a point there? >> it's a great point, and we