gina re mondo asking about whether or not military action should be included us secretary of state anthony blake, and has also made it some heated statements. let's review what's been said. we would prefer to have a more stable, predictable relationship with russia. we've made that clear, but we've made equally clear that if russia chooses to act aggressively or recklessly toward us or toward allies and partners, will respond. you have to treat russia like virtually criminal enterprise, they harbor criminals. they don't pre said the rule of law or any kind of level of personal freedom. and i do think we have to push back. we know that the most recent attacks against colonial pipeline are linked to creating the lack of criminal groups that are known to law enforcement that have tied to russia. we cannot give any quarter, and no countries should be harboring criminal actors of any type. now the meeting that is coming up, the summit set for june 16th is certainly widely anticipated and we're hearing quite a bit of intense words that are intended probably to set the atmosphere. thanks for taking us

state. specifically, secretary anthony blinking is talking about ukraine, which the nordstrom to pipeline would allow russia to bypass while setting natural gas to europe. blake, its comments come amid meetings with german officials about how to protect europe's energy sovereignty. by the time we took office, the pipeline as a matter of its physical construction, was more than 90 percent complete. and we're determined to see if we can make something positive out of a difficult situation that we inherited. and to do it, we can to make sure that the end result is that your energy security is not undermine infected strength. and that your, that ukraine's position is not weakened that it's actually reinforced. our goal remains to ensure that russia cannot use energy as a course of tool as a weapon against ukraine or, or anyone else in europe. good place to speak of in the conversation. we had tony, made it very clear to me that there is an expectation in washington with regard to north stream to that we do our part to ensure that this pipeline cannot be misused by putin to exert political pressure on ukraine. we are aware of that and we want to do our part. we ha