that the threat, while severe, is no worse than the spin over the past eight years. and of course this would be a big moment for him to go meet with vice president harris. and a big moment for her. because this is the first time she has been dropped into a live current active foreign policy crisis. and we haven t seen how she operates in that case. secretary blinken is also here and will be speaking at the conference in just a few hours. yeah. it will be a big test, and you will be all over it. david sanger, thank you for being with us this morning. as you just heard from david there, secretary of state blinken laying out several steps the u.s. says it expects russia to take in the coming days to justify starting a war in ukraine. . it could be a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing inside russia. the invented discovery of a mass grave, a staged drone strike against civilians or a fake,