And look, like this administration has properly proceeded carefully, in trying to not escalate the ukraine war. and that s the right thing to do. but it s also important to be transparent about what the united states is doing. they ve said they ve been providing unprecedented amounts of intelligence, and it is the responsibility of a free and independent nation to explain that. so let s talk about that. how much of this is semantics. because the pushback was very specific about what they did or didn t say and the crux of your reporting and our reporting at nbc news is the same. it is, the government has not pushed back on the fundamental idea that u.s. intelligence is being used in some way that is sifting the ukrainians. so talk to me the smantsices. because vladimir putin has said from the beginning of this thing that the u.s. is escalating this and the u.s. is essentially involved but there seems to be some kind of line that the u.s. is unwilling to cross for fear