you know, the president announced he was going to europe in 10 days like most of us are hoping this might actually, you know, maybe we could get a peace agreement, again, nobody talking about that. no leadership antony blinken the secretary of state has a private jet. he wasn t in that meeting with the other three leaders of europe who went into kyiv. i mean, there is no leadership a. the diplomatic efforts appear at least from where we are standing to be very aanemic. maybe there is stuff going on behind the scenes but the optic doesn t look like america is attack leadership. steve: let s wait 10 days. okay these sanctions are going to impact him. wait a month. a month is four weeks. do you know what today is? today starts the fourth week. are the sanctions really biting that badly? have we brought russia to their knees? if. brian: we re still buying oil from russia. steve: exactly.