as it were from this assembly on ukraine. yeah, so as you point out, jim, the russian foreign minister and the secretary of state tony blinken have been in the same place at the same time in multiple instances in recent months. in one of those instances, a secretary of state went after russia and said very bluntly, ukraine is not your country, and we expect that there is going to be more tense confrontation today. and the reason that today is different is because we do expect that both the secretary of state and the russian foreign minnist her lavrov are going to deliver remarks as part of this meeting on ukraine. and when it comes to blinken himself, we re told that he is very similar to president biden yesterday going to directly confront what we have seen as these recent developments over the last few days with president putin talking about the nuclear possibilities of this war. also, with those referendum that are planned in the ukrainian occupied territories in russia
here he was. it doesn t have to be a process as i under it. you know, there are different people say different things but as i understand it, there doesn t have to be. if you re the president of the united states, you could declassify just by saying it is de classified, even by thinking about it. did the justices, the judges as jim said, two of the three on this panel appointed by trump, did they say anything about his argument for blanket declassification. they did. they actually addressed and they pointed out there has been nothing in the record here saying that these were in fact de classified by trump. this is something that came up with the special master. they he they said even the discussion of that is a total red herring. they said these are not personal or privileged documents, their executive branch documents and they wrote in the legal arguments, the plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was president but the record contains no eviden