standing position from the u.s. throughout this whole crisis. we also hear the president, as you point out, trying to leave the door open to a diplomatic off ramp. that's particularly important for the u.s. to make that clear publicly, because the russians are trying to cast the u.s. as the warmongers here. we heard from a senior russian diplomat to the united nations who was responding to the u.s. putting out this intelligence assessment about all of these tens of thousands of troops. this russian diplomat saying, look, if russia came out and said the u.s. was going to invade britain and there would be hundreds of thousands of deaths and not put out any evidence for that, you would say that's not acceptable. and it shouldn't be acceptable for the u.s. to do it to russia as well. so it speaks to the question you were raising just before we heard from biden about is the u.s. going to put more intelligence forward? we heard yesterday from the top democrat on the armed services committee saying he wants biden to put out more information as