i m curious how much influence president biden in the situation. this is not a singular detente between the united states and russia. you have nato involved. you have china chiming in its opinions on, you know, i guess being upset that the united states is supporting different countries that have been overtly opposed to this. you know, lithuania, for one. so when you look at all of this, what can the president actually do here? reporter: josh laid it out pretty well in his chat with you earlier. they have been very up-front about what they re going to do and i think laying out clearly what kind of economic sanctions russia would face if it decides to invade ukraine is making clear what it can do. and they have those tools available. and those tools are not just u.s. tools. they include europe. one of the things that they ve talked about with europe and specifically with germany is suspending the north stream 2 pipeline, which would be a big blow to germany and something that is very