sanctions against four officials who they say were helping the kremlin. joining us now to dig into this growing crisis, white house reporter for "the washington post," tyler pager. good morning, tyler. we're glad to see you as always as we look again at the live pictures from geneva. give us a sense -- there's lavrov right there -- give us a sense how the president's comments first from his press conference of the day saying a minor incursion might lead to a smaller response and his attempts to sort of clarify and clean up yesterday. what sort of impact do those comments have on ukraine, russia, but also our european allies. >> right. it's great to be with you this morning. as we've seen from president biden before throughout his political career, some clumsy language causing a minor uproar both domestically and abroad. in this case, those comments about a minor incursion spooking ukrainian partners there. you showed the tweet from the president zelensky there.