to transmit to president zelensky everything that he learned in the conversation with president putin and obviously to reassure him that the united states will be there to support ukraine militarily, economically, and politically, and that s the bottom line. he has to have these conversations so that the ukrainians know, and all of our allies and the world over knows, that we re not going to negotiate over the heads of other countries, over the heads of other foreign leaders with the russian president. i want to dive in, evelyn, a little bit to the coauthored piece that you released on the atlantic council, more of a coauthored statement with regards to the discussion the president had with putin and what steps to take next. but gary, let start first with the criticisms that you leveled on twitter when it came to that phone call between the russian president and president biden, and on twitter, you wrote this. free world leaders giving dictators the status and