the message. this is all in their minds, what they re telling the russian public. this is all western provocation. everything going on now is all part of a grand u.s. conspiracy against russia. probably finland and sweden, if they joined nato, it would be explained to the russian people in the same way. russia has a bias as it approaches the situation. it simply assumes that everyone west of russia is somehow completely under u.s. control. that s just how they see it. so that s why they want to talk directly to the u.s. they don t really want to talk to anyone else. it s very much a bilateral game in their minds. i m sure the u.s. is trying to figure out how they control as much of europe as russia thinks we do. anyway, matt bodner on the ground in what is always a snowy moscow. what does the u.s. government need to know next to keep the russians at bay? is there something they should
won t happen again. they say when it happens again, it s chemical weapons. secretary mattis avoided terms like red line. but that s what prompted this hand doing so again would prompt a similar response. you may recall that the native is that we went to congress to get permission. congress refused to grand us that. we did not act, this white house is obviously taking a different tact. you heard sean spicer, the secretary say earlier today, it s important that we battle and defeat isis. if that means that we need to act unilaterally in syria, we ll do that too. kneel? thanks, kevin. as we ve been saying, rex tillerson, the secretary of state, is in moscow as we speak right now meeting with his russian counter part. it s not clear and it doesn t