russians will try to be a spoiler. but the meeting needs to happen. the weapons surge is critical. again, i go back the ukrainians and zelenskyy is fighting desperately for the survival of his nation from an inplaqueble russian invasion. so i wanted to talk about what you know now. based on your experience in russia. are these things that the united states are doing, whether we re talking about providing more weapons to ukraine, more aid, sending senior leadership along with nato and at the same time going after the oligarch, is there anything right now that would change putin s mind? that s a really, really good question. i think there s a lot of midnight oil being burned on that very question. certainly a lot has been thrown out. it seems that diplomacy won t