severe, significant consequences that russia could face, whether they are militarily military consequences, it s clear the u.s. has little it could do in terms of military efforts at this time, alex, but obviously, the president on this stage wants to make it very clear that the u.s. is watching and there will be consequences. i want to thank you, peter. i want to swing over to the white house where nbc s kristen welker s kristen, what s interesting here is so much of our sort of main foreign policy priorities right now hinge on russian cooperation. that could be nuclear deal on iran, it could be some kind of resolution to the situation in syria. and there is a sense, i would love to know your thoughts on this, this white house has been a little more hesitant in and around certain issues because russia is such a major player in so many areas. certainly the white house feels like they have been they have to and must comment on this, given the situation over there. but one would