the white house is that there will be a ramping up in sanctions, depending how these talks went today. seems there wasn t a blowup from the prepared statement they issued. they have a step-by-step process. there was at least communication for the first time between moscow and the kiev government brokered here, midwifed, full, by the u.s. and the europeans. so, this, to merck indicates that what nick burns and others have been calling for, which is an immediate ramping up of sanctions, to let putin know he cannot move furtherer is not going to happen there will not be any further deterrent sterns at least if this meeting went as well as it seems to have. right. from the very beginning, people have been saying that the administration should be moving full tilt to keep the excuse know, keep vladimir putin from annexing crimea and then possibly doing more in eastern ukraine. as we are seeing, support happening. what we heard the secretary say, as you point out is very methodical plotti