essentially he came out today and said any russian troops crossing the border into ukraine is an invasion and will be met with severe consequences. and we have also heard the president sort of ratcheting up his, i wouldn t say threats but the seriousness with the sanctions that the administration plans to impose and talking about how he thinks putin will regret any action he takes in ukraine once he feels the response that comes from u.s. and allies. it is a situation the white house is certainly taking very seriously. you could see in the president s remarks yesterday he didn t really know what move putin was going to make. but that certainly there is no indication of putin backing down at this point. and what has been taking place, talks, has not resulted in any sort of de-escalation and it doesn t seem there are many more cards left the administration has to play and they are now waiting to let it play out. and the ball is in putin s court