is white house principle deputy national security adviser jonathan finer. thank you so much for being with us at this critical time this morning. is this, as you see it, as the white house sees it, an invasion? >> look, brianna, we think this is, yes, the beginning of an invasion. russia's latest invasion into ukraine, and you're already seeing the beginning of our response that we have said will be swift and severe. within minutes of president putin speaking yesterday, we issued an executive order that effectively blocked all economic activity in the two provinces of ukraine that russia has now says belong to somebody else. and then overnight, in a very significant development that you just discussed, the germans, in close coordination with us and in fulfillment of what the president says would transpire said the nord stream 2 pipeline will not go forward. you'll hear from us later today additional sanction steps we're going to take that go directly at russia in response to the egregious step they took yesterday, away from diplomacy