because the russians can launch a lightning attack using their air superiority, also the maritime systems that they have on the ships in the black sea, they can attack using the weapons from the ships and launch on to land. this is a really horrible situation, and i want to underscore something that ambassador mcfaul said and what the president said. you probably know, for a long time, i worked on asia pacific up on the hill, went to north korea, worked that portfolio hard and when i went back to europe and the russia portfolio, i was struck by how good our intelligence was, even though the cold war was off and we didn't have many analysts on russia anymore so the fact that the president says this, based on our intelligence, really gives me, unfortunately, a lot of confidence that the russians are going to invade exactly as he has laid out, because he would not be saying this if it weren't really based in intelligence. >> ambassador mcfaul, let me ask you about that, because this -- i don't know how many