skis. ambition is a good thing. aspiration is a good thing. that's how you motivate people. you should advance your policy agenda but the president was unable. not sure he could have in this social media age. unable to manage expectations in his party for how much they could do. and for americans who don't check their list every day they look at washington and say what the hell is going on there? >> and they look at the prices at the grocery store and they look at the prices at the gase station. we expect president biden to address a number of pressing challenges, including the standoff at the russian/ukrainian border. ginn joining us now, christiane amanpour. what can president biden say today to bring down the temperature of this standoff to convince vladimir putin that an invasion, again, is the wrong idea? >> well, jake, actually in the words of the state department official today, perhaps diplomacy is not dead. a very united and strong front led by the united states with