our bureau champion exposure has been following the story from that side of the atlantic and e v g u e t s. so we just heard there from biden high praise for the german chancellor in for germany, for sending agreeing to send these leopard to tanks. he's talking a lot also about unity. how much of a role did the chancellor play in the u. s. decision to send its tanks present bite and got to ask this question right after he addressed the nation and announced that the earth will be sending these 31 tanks. so he got asked if the germany forced him to change his mind and he said, friend, no, we were working in this together. this is a co ordinated effort. and that kind of was the main message. besides the pure fact that they will send tangs to ukraine, it was like that germany, the united states. the western alliance stands firm and is not scrambling is not weakening. what probably vladimir putin was kind of hoping for in what we heard today is certainly not what we've been hearing in, in the past few weeks. you know, until basically, a few days ago, the president of the united states had been