>> terribly friendly. we will see if those columns are being print add month or two from now. >> right. >> i spoke to one white house official about this and at the risk of offering a sort of crass take on the politics of this all, they're concerned about gas prices. look, this is already a huge problem domestically. the average american cares a heck of a lot more about what they're paying to fill their car than they do candidly the status of ukraine. you think about march, april, may, going into the spring and summer, gas prices are already expensive. if that spikes because of this episode, that's just one more rock in joe biden's backpack that he is lugging around and it's getting heavier and heavier. >> the cyber and the unknown -- >> there are some real practical consequences for domestic audiences, yeah. >> and that's just politics as well. there is as well a national security ramifications here as well. >> they have been warning that russia could try to launch