trigger a war and to throw putin off his game. i want to get phil mudd in here. he was an fbi senior intelligence adviser and counterterrorism official. is it a good idea to let russia know what intel the u.s. has? >> i think it is, as long as you can ensure you're not giving them an advantage. the issue here is not whether you release intelligence. the issue here is whether you release intelligence that gives the adversary advantage. i've been watching the stuff come out. i can't imagine that putin is learning anything about it. i don't think it's just a message to putin. the politics and diplomacy of this are really interesting. let's make an assumption that putin uses some sort of pretext to move into ukraine. what the americans are partly trying to do is set the stage to go to the europeans and say, look, there was not a provocation. we told you time and time again that he, putin is going to create a fabrication and, therefore, we have to stand united over this fake invasion and we can't step back. that's for europeans who may not