something else to watch for, crimea gets 80% of its electricity and water from ukraine. the ukrainian government could use energy as a weapon against russia, unknown how russia mooing react to such a provocation. now with mike bayer from our capitol hill newsroom. good afternoon. i don t know what this is. they re trying to improve the optics but the reality is there s still tens of thousands of troops there and they re rattling. there are tens of thousands, and, frankly from putin s point of view, an excuse to flexion flex his muff muscles and to have military training operations. the fact is crimea belongs to russia now. put put made that clear. we re unlikely to be able to reverse that. we have to draw the line here, make sure nothing major happens about the discusses have become