because words matter especially if you're the president to the policy being critical of fast-tracking nord stream 2 at this point last year. policies matter. with all of that being said, i would echo what senator graham pointed out that bipartisanship is very important. i want to see the biden administration and our leaders in government to be successful here. also, there's other countries in that region, throughout europe and the rest of the world that are engaged, they're talking. by working together, multilateral, you can ramp up pressure where you create more hoff -- of a deterrent effect. this is something that we've been waiting on a long time. at this particular moment, if you did everything, russia might still enter ukraine. you have to try. the last thing i would say is that there's a lot of people focused right now on ukraine's border that are not focused on our own. and we have to make sure that