what the pentagon has been saying is they did tell the russians, in other words, the u.s. told moscow to stay out of certain areas or be aware that the u.s. would be in areas that could include damascus, that could include homz. it was a bloc in the area where the u.s. might be operating, not specific locations, not specific time frames. this is how deconfliction works, you tell the other guy i may be operating in this broad area at this time. moscow was very well aware of what the real message was there. there was no escalation back from the russians, no action by the russians that pentagon has reported. i want you to listen one more time to what general joe dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff about the russians and all of this. we specifically identified