now. and that is what they have to face. ben, let me ask you, the russians threatened to go after decision-making centers if there were further attacks on russian assets or russian territory. there was this claim of hitting a military facility near kyiv. is there any connection there potentially? reporter: well, that is not really a decision a decision-making thing. it is a military asset that not surprisingly the russians would take out. let s keep in mind of course that it is fairly clear that the russians were trying to assassinate president volodymyr zelenskyy in the opening weeks of this war. so they have no compunction if they feel the need to obliterate whatever it is, whether it is government buildings, leadership facilities, and the worries is
off the ones that he had accomplished, believing the theory of the case being well, in four years if we can say we said we would do these things and we did them that enough people would say donald trump affected change. i m going to be for him. well, assuming the reporting assuming donald trump doesn t change his mind, which is always possible. this is another thing that steve bannon can cross off the list and that appears to be the sort of defining final decision making thing that donald trump latches on to, and i think you ve seen that in a number of things, tpp. talk about building the wall. the keystone pipeline and a lot of these major decisions where he s had some back and forth. he s chosen to side with what he knows the base wants and what he promised on the campaign trail. so, dan, more broadly, then. there are big questions and this is included side what is going on within the white house