president. jim sciutto, let me bring you in the conversation. both of you have been talking specifically as we all have, cover ukraine and tenuous situation there among pro-russian ukrainians and between moscow and between folks on the other side, ukraine, but then you have this that came out today. the fact that now we heard from u.s. secretary of state john kerry and in that meeting on ukraine, in geneva acknowledging and really the stunning allegation that jews in this one town in ukraine are having to register with the -- self-proclaimed authorities and so hearing from the u.s. ambassador, yes, this is the real deal. might obama, jim sciutto, address that in the q&a? >> i would be surprised if he wasn't asked about it. this is -- shows the real urgency of de-escalation in the region. it has been the russian strategy to stoke up the ethnic divisions there, nationalism, to a political end, show instability in eastern ukraine and require