look forward to working closely with spain going forward. james in the back. i m sorry ok. i have a question, thank you. wait, wait, wait, you don t have a question, james? are you kidding me? are you kidding me? can we just have this for the record you didn t have a question. i m going to frame that transcript. simply a tribute to your loclasity and el if russia strikes nato, poland or the baltics, nato, do you have enough troops in the region right now to respond, and from day one, not five months ahead, and the second question would be many of those who called for sending leonards and abrams to ukraine argued that russia right now is too weakened to militarily too weakened to respond conventionally in a significant way. how confident are you in this assessment that russia is so weak, or maybe you have a different assessment, but many people think russia is too weak to respond in a significant way to the move that was just announced about tanks? le
reform? i m going to defer most of the document questions to karine. the only thing i say here is that you are welcome. thank you. [laughter] obviously the president, you ve heard karine say, he takes the treatment of classified materials seriously, i can assure you everybody here does too and the national security council staff, we know what the rules are, we follow the rules, and the procedures exist for a reason and they have been developed over many, many years as the nature of classified material has changed down to now including electronic capability, and so we are working at that very, very hard. i don t have any changes to speak to. the process of classified material handling, you know, not process, but guidelines change as technology changes and we are
you, as the media, the public, is going to want this to be distilled into its core parts and core points when it comes public. but they have to figure out what that is. they don t know. so you don t want to do this investigation out in public. i will just add one more thing. please. because what we learned from the investigation in the ukraine investigation is that there is very good reason to keep this closed and to breecht not only all of us from prevent not all all of us from knowing what all the witnesses said, but from the witnesses from knowing who other witnesses said. don t fforget, we don t want bil stepien, these people to be able to coordinate their testimony and tell a narrative they want to pretend was real. we want them to go in not knowing what other people said. that is a much better way to get to the truth than doing everything in public. i guess, john, all of these subpoenas include document