to have viable democracies. i think what you heard from clarissa and natasha, it's so important to underscore that one word which is predictability. i think at this point it is predictable here in the united states that russia will try to meddle. that's not nothing. it means that u.s. intelligence services can be on the lookout, as they were in 2020. perhaps a lot more aggressively than they were in 2016. but the other thing that is so noteworthy that we've already seen, jim, and i also just want to underscore this, is what jeff zeleny came back on to report to you about 10, 15 minutes ago which is that jen psaki, the white house press secretary, want $to make clear that president biden was not nodding in ascent saying, yes, i trust vladimir putin. they didn't want to let, never mind a news cycle go by, but a matter of minutes go by without