General jack keane. russia has sent a written response to the deescalation proposal, talking about being engaged in more talks. does that tell you that putin is trying to resolve this, playing for time, something else at work here, general? no, i truly believe we are in the diplomatic phase here. two pathways that have taken place. one is the u.s., nato and russia and exchange of written proposals and possibly some areas to negotiate on, and those areas are likely having to do with offensive missiles in nato countries and in russia, also nuclear missiles that russia has and the united states building that capability back up as a result of pulling out of the star treaty and military exercises, etc. but then the other path going on is the french, germans, ukrainians and russias met last week, and will