place, they say, but they cannot replace the critical technology and intelligence that the us can offer. >> andrea mitchell thank you. and now to defense secretary hegseth, order to call off cyber operations against russia. nbc's courtney kube has been looking into it for us. explain what we know about this order, courtney, and what it's supposed to accomplish. >> yeah, so we don't know a whole lot about it, frankly, chris. and that's generally the. >> case when you're talking about any kind of an offensive cyber operations. in fact, the military hasn't even acknowledged that they do offensive cyber operations until just the past few years. but in this case, what we are told, according to a u.s. official who is familiar with this planning, is that secretary of defense pete hegseth, late last month, late in february ordered u.s. cyber command to pause or halt. all offensive cyber operations and information operations against russia. now, of course, this comes as we were just hearing from andrea, as the u.s. is deeply engaged in this negotiations or attempts to negotiate between russia and ukraine f