mr. moland. >> everybody has got to be asking you about the election tomorrow and what that does for russia and the troops along the ukrainian border. >> what he did say was he'll expect results of the election and the decision of the ukrainian people but he thinks they're doing it all wrong. he has offered to have remediation with ukraine. crimea voted independently to join russia and self determination should be respected. he said he believed that really the -- that the replacement -- really the president of ukraine was something that was outside of the balance of law. >> was there anything that surprised you about the meeting? >> well, i think the -- what did surprise me honestly was the intensity, if you will, of his feeling of agreement. he really seems to feel that, you know, that the west sort of willfully ignored russia and delegated -- relegated russia to more of a second class status over last 20 years and thinks russia's legitimate interests were ignored and had no choice to take decisive action to prevent independent ukraine from joining nato. just the depth of his feeling was s