it s a great question. what we area hearing is that lavrov requested a meeting with the president at the white house. and he got it. and the optics, of course, are extremely c jarring, because th president is in the middle of an impeachment investigation dealing with the fact that he denied a white house meeting to the ukrainians over the issue of investigations of his political rivals. so to afford the russians, even if it s not the russian president this meeting at the white house is an a extra slap the face to the ukrainians. especially because the president still has not invited zelensky to the white house even before he met with vladimir putin s, sclin skiim did on monday to discuss the war in eastern ukraine going on. that would have been a great show g of support for zelensky the united ppstates. the president still has yet to do that kinden of outreach. at the same time, he s rolling out the s red carpet for the russian foreign minister who at the same time who two years ag