fell apart over a bipartisan sanctions bill, last, week the senate instead issued a non-resolution. warning russian president vladimir putin to seize -- senator tim kaine is a democrat from virginia. joins me now, senator cain, as, always good to see you. especially in a quickly moving news environment like this one. can we first talk about the white house's position on all of this? biden, the president, said for the first time today that this was the beginning of an invasion. there's been a lot of analysis about the use of the word invasion. the white house was not using that language last night. do you think that reflects a more aggressive posture here? do you think something has changed over the last 24 hours? >> well, it's an invasion, alex. it's an invasion. this -- you know, recognition of these breakaway puppet states that russia has dominated since