towards president putin and obey his instructions. vice president biden would call up and say, listen, you have to move forward. we'll help you with your economy. you're the only guy that can do this. now, we understand that deputy secretary of state william burns will be traveling to kiev next week to try to help this along, working with the european union, obviously. now that the protesters are still in the streets it's unclear the future of president yanukovych. the parliament voted out, if he refuses to go once the olympics are over and russia is out of the spotlight that he wants to protect his planche and send russian troops in, perhaps, that's a very big concern. this saul far from certain. and it's still, as the u.s. points out, still very fragile. i think the u.s. will continue to remain engaged along with the european union. >> alise labbot, thanks so much. appreciate that from washington. also overseas, a very rare meeting that hasn't happened for thousands of years.