christina lansky was clearly his initiative, which is to be followed by chance was charles later in a few days as a tribute to some kind of did somebody commands him. so i would say he's been leading away, but he certainly, and not beyond the a european leader who is going to play your important role in trying to solve this crisis. she say momentum is now building in these diplomatic efforts. president con claims he received assurances from president putin that a d escalation in the russia crane crisis is possible. now russia has been down talk of progress. what's your reading of the outcome of mr. mcclellan's shuttle diplomacy this week? well, 2 things. first of all, there's a value in diplomacy in itself, meeting face to face a leader as my horse on and as charles will do for 456 hours and has value in itself because it allows leaders to gauge each other and know each other's attention. i'm not saying that my whole looks into, but in sol as former president bush, one said that there is a value in itself in the meat, in the long meeting phase. for, there's a, there's a war for commun