we have ray mcgovern, he's a pharmacy analyst, and in brussels, we have here in many, well tom and he's a ph. d in geo politics. and a lecture at leon university are telling cross roles and the fact that means you can jump any time you want. and i always appreciate it, it's got to re 1st here, re in raleigh. where do we stand right now? we've had 2 weeks plus a very high profile meetings. well with the us, with russia o. s. c, e, nato. that the whole works here. where are we right now? because the western media, particularly american in u. k, they're on nothing less than a warpath. how do we stand? the media is on a war past. the question is, what is going on behind the scenes? now we know that love are off and blinking agreed less than a week ago to to continue to talk sion that blinked and promised to give a written response to russian demands or russian request this week. so we're on tenterhooks with respect to that. but that's the other reality. the reason that the media does have right about that is twofold. one is they are on the stand it, and number 2, they want a d emphasize it