christine romans. thank you very much. appreciate that. so the breaking news this morning american journalist evan herskovits, detained in moscow and accusedage and russian state news agency tass reports that moscow court has formally arrested him. now he is the first u. s reporter accused of spying by russia since 1986 wall street journal vehemently denying the allegations and is calling for his immediate release. we're joined now by new york times columnist nicholas kristof. good morning to you. good morning, frequently travel overseas. obviously a reporter working in this field. this is chilling. what do you think of this? i think every journalist feels a certain person when you have a colleague somewhere who is imprisoned for committing journalism, and evan is not a spy. he committed journalism, and i mean, i guess one of the things that troubles me is that the kidnapping of journalists hostage taking that started with these, you know, independent terrorist groups and they just spread to countries. north korea, your ron. china kidnapped the two michaels for advantage, and now russia and you know they find advantage in taking hostages,