kaspirov. he understands the national game of russia chess very well and we re seeing a chess game here. putin is pushing, pushing, pushing, he also wants to consolidate defense around what he perceives as a less defendable borders for russia in the wake of nato. one other point to be made here, stephanie, is that putin also seeks to divide nato, he seeks to divide europe on this issue. he knows there s controversy about oil and gas and above all he would like to divide the united states and portray the biden administration as weak headed into our elections. so as always it s a game within a game for vladimir putin. a game within a game. admiral, gary, matt, carol, you have sufficiently scared an informed us on this monday morning. we re going to leave it there for now, but he will be watching these negotiations as the day continues. we ve now got to turn to the fight against the coronavirus. portions of the administration s