continue contact and have their top diplomatic teams consult with each other. here is a key part of the white house official readouts, quote biden voiced the deep concerns of the united states and our european allies about russia s escalation of forces surroundin ukraine and made it clear that the u.s. and our allies would respond with strong economic an other measures in the event of military escalation. so a lengthy conversation with the promise of more possible talks, just enough cooperation to lower the temperature for th moment, at least so hopes the white house. all i will say is that the ultimate metric for weather the world is safe or not is tax on the grounds and actions taken i this case by russia. let s see, we are prepared to deal with any contingency as i said that the outside and i m not going to make predictions o