response to this calmed down. m dude, you re freaking me out. toughen up. you sound like a terrified old woman. nowe the white house claims that conversation never happened, but clearly it did happenr because at a press conference today, president leonski said virtually the same thingua to the media. w we ve talked tode the president. we ve talkedd about this . we think that it has to be there has to be a balanced approach. i m not saying they is influencing american media, the independent, but the media policypend there has to be veryh well balanced if they want toan know what the situation is that they can come to kiev.me do we have tanks on the street? no. d the image that mass media creates is that we have troopscr on the roads. we have mobilization. people are leaving places. that s not the case. wed don t need this panic. so david frum and joe biden have gotten americans so whipped into a frenzy over the f futureut of ukraine that they re flying to ukraine to risk