get to eventually, they decided to all come together and deliver a tough statement to russia, saying you step over the line, we re here and you re going to pay for it. yeah. it is almost disorienting in this day and age to see bipartisan support for this. we see an out party supporting the president of another party. steve rattner, joe is right, you ve got senators menendez and rish working on this deal for sanctions, a bipartisan deal. they ve hit a snag. republicans are working on their own sanctions now. chuck schumer said he d be in support of the sanctions. i guess my question to you is, if they did levy sanctions, putin has shrugged them off in the past. would they have an impact? is that a deterrent for him this time? sanctions are always a deterrent of some sort or another, but the fact is that, as richard eluded to, the russian economy is actually in somewhat better shape today to deal with the sanctions than before. john mccain famously called russia a country masqueraing