lines about u.s. endorsing ukraine to join nato at some point, having u.s. military installations in ukraine. and then the hope is, at least, that they can move on to those areas of potential cooperation which you just heard, you know, david altalk about. russia said it will veto having that aid crossing continue to be allowed to be open and the united nations security council next month. that's something they could potentially discuss. climate change is another one that's been bandied around. but the key here that we're hearing from both sides, the word that we hear over and over again is predictability. trying to engineer a situation, not where the relationship becomes rosy or friendly, but whereby it becomes a little bit more predictable because, for both leaders, there's a sense that it no longer behooves them to have this rapidly