here s steve rosenberg in moscow. well next month the russians will be withdrawing accreditation from all the staff at nato s military liaison and information officers in moscow. so they will have to pack up and go home. but also russia will be suspending activities of its own observer mission at nato. so the russians will be packing up and going on. in the russian foreign minister says that it nato needs to urgently get in touch with russia thanit urgently get in touch with russia than it will have to do so via the russian ambassador to belgium. so what does all this mean? it means of course that relations between russia and the nato alliance go from bad to worse. but this is not a surprise really because ever sense russia s annexation of crimea from ukraine in 2014 this relationship has been going in one direction, downhill. and each side blames the other. so
something was wrong. and it felt dreadful and i couldn t shake it. so i decided to take some action. i wasn t sure where to start. i knew if they needed help and they needed to be evacuated, it would require some pretty powerful people. which is a little above my pay grade and my network. but, you know, i just couldn t sit on my hands and do nothing. so i said to myself, self, you ve given birth 11 times certainly you can do this. i just began to reach out to my senator in d.c. who is a ranking member of the armed services committee. and he put me in touch with the military liaison who then began to get traction and get things going. but as you know, things began to collapse quickly and they had to turn their attention to american citizens. so, i just kept knocking on doors and knocking on doors and trying and trying. honestly, it was just night and day for two weeks. finally, last monday, just a few days ago, i decided maybe i just need to fly to qatar. maybe i need to go there.