scholz, brand new in the job coming in behind four-term chancellor angela merkel, but he has stood tall in this crisis, come to washington, stood alongside the american president, and germany just announced they will not be turning the keys, if you will, to start the nord stream 2. exactly the response we re looking for. all of the nato nations are working very closely together, and by the way, two other nations to focus on here. close nato alice and partners, not members of nato but finland and sweden have operated their troops under my command when i was supreme allied commander. you re seeing news reports about the finnish and swedish people starting to think maybe a good thing to join nateo. again, back to the theme your earlier panel. putin is getting exactly what he doesn t want here. let s hope he wakes up and walks away from this nightmare that he s creating. admiral what we have moments