the first time in the post cold war error where we have seen this kind of escalation. i think the biden white house is very clearly signalling we are not going to be drawn into this tit for tat, when putin escalated the level of alert on his nuclear forces, escalated the level of alert on his nuclearforces, biden said we re not doing anything, may be discreetly they are, but his point was let s not raise the temperature here. let s not aggravate what is already a very severe situation by threatening to throw nuclear weapons at each other. i think john is right. whatjohn says, i think, is kind of the worst nightmare situation, if putin feels he has been defeated, which for him has the same meaning as humiliated, that is when he might feel the need to lash out and say damn to you, fay the nukes and so be it. putin clearly doesn t care, it is a zone vanity that is driving this. it is his own
suggested that there might be recordings of their conversations. and so legal experts are saying that the president can t use executive privilege as a shield in one context and as a sword in another context. the administration, if they were to determine block comey s testimony, could try to get a court order from a federal district court. but that kind of move is unprecedented. it s not a guaranteed recipe for success. we know the d.c. circuit court has already held that privilege, executive privilege disappears all together if there s any reason to believe that government misconduct is involved. so it would certainly be complicated, and a big deal for the president to try to stop comey from testifying. athena, there is also new reporting today, cnn learning more details about this reported war error that the administration is trying to set up in order to respond in a more targeted way to russia investigation questions. what more can you tell us? reporter: yeah, that s right. i spo