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Hello. Im jim sciutto in for wolf blitzer. Darkness cannot hide the scars and stains of a bloody day in kiev square. Those are snipers taking aim at antigovernment protestors. Those protestors say 100 died today in the clashes with Government Force easily making this the deadliest day since november when the prorussia government and prowest antigovernment demonstrators. The white house has condemned the fighting saying were outraged by the images of Ukrainian Security forces firing automatic weapons. The last part is important. There are reports protestors have taken as many as 70 hostages from among the Security Forces. Police say theyve had Dozens Injured and many Police Killed in the fighting. Joining me live from kiev, our own Senior International correspondent, nick walsh. Right in the middle of the violence. What can you tell us . Behind me now over the crowds chanting, dark has fallen. They fort fied the barricades. Weve seen the bodies taken out of the hotel where im standing. We heard some talk about Fallen Heroes and of course grief and anger. That comes after a long day of this. There were 67 hostages claimed to be taken. We havent gotten that confirmed or evidence to back that up. Its a sign of police trying to raise the stakes and fears of es of escalation. This is what a truce looks like. I should warn you about this video. Dead, wounded gathered inside the lobby hotel under the sheet, head wounds, most hit by bullets. The number of dead is rising. Together with disbelief and rage, outside this makeshift mall and hospital, live fire whizzed around. Eight hours earlier, the president agreed on a truce and something changed. Police suddenly withdrew and protestors moved forward. Its unclear why. This man said he fired a shotgun at police once protestors were fired upon by snipers. He didnt want his face shown. One man says this forces them to surge forward. Leaders blam eers say shots of s and grenades. Police and protestors are face to face. Barricade are enforced. Many fear escalation is ahead. Are you ready, one protestor asked a young man behind the shield . He may not be. Ukraine may not be. What comes next . Now jim, weve been hearing negative signals from Security Forces here. Police saying theyre taking up arms to protect themselves. Military said they would use arms if necessary to keep ukraine from slipping into a civil war. The president blaming opposition. The opposition tells police to join them to turn over to their side. No real signs as negotiations are afoot. The big fear behind me, regardless of whats happening, the tension on the ground, front lines here say violence is spurred. The police are on the series of defenses trying to keep them back. Theyre massively superior in equipment and numbers. The fear is they may push into the square again despite the bloodshed of this morning. I was speaking to a friend there who talked about his camera targeted by snipers. Youre in the middle of it. I know there were bodies in the lobby of the hotel where youre staying. How do you stay safe as youre covering this . Reporter its reasonably fine given most the sniper fire we have heard seems to be targeting them. We had one of our colleagues near the first aid being targeted here. This building is being shot as well. The real risk is to the protestors who move around here. They are angry. The safety for themselves isnt the First Priority theyre taking. The real fear for anybody covering this is what comes next . Security forces have been pushed back. Theyve been there about 12 hours. Given what weve just been sorry. Thats a flair going up behind me. Sounded like a gunshot. Many people are concerned about whats coming next. Security forces have been on foot for a time. Please stay safe. We got a taste of it there, what youre facing. Thanks very much. Back here in washington, sanctions on the ukraine are being, quote, fast tracked for the president now. Im joined by our Foreign Affairs reporter whos been following this from the state department. What are we hearing about the sanctions . How powerful is this a tool for the u. S. Government to influence the situation on the ground in the ukraine . Were talking about freezes of individuals that are believed to be involved in the recent crack down. If you remember yesterday, the administration announced it had banned visas of 20 individuals involved in the recent violence. This goes on top of these small sanctions that the u. S. Has been imposing on certain individuals here. Not on the government itself. Thats the question. Is this really any type of solution . Is this any influence that the u. S. Can really offer here . As you noted that the administration came out with a very tough statement from the white house saying listen, urging the military to not get involved saying its outraged by whats going on. What type of indepth mediation is the u. S. Willing to provide. Now its willing to leave it up to three eu Foreign Ministers on the ground to get diplomatic process going. Theyre concern about violence on the ground. They see government snipers pointed at the protestors. Very concerned the government may impose some state of emergency and then anything goes, jim. State of emergency, troops move in. Thats a tactic targeting senior leads. Theyve used on countries like north korea before. That doesnt always work. Coming up, ill talk to Bill Richardson about that and the role Vladimir Putin is playing in this. And now were learning about the Terror Threat and the master bomb maker that could be behind it. Terrorists could be plotting shoe bombs. The Homeland Security is warning airlines. Brian todd has been on this. Were not sure its him. We know this guy, and hes tried this in the past and had success. He has. Terrorism experts say he could be the one connected to this potential threat. He is al qaedas master bomb maker. He works with al qaeda many the peninsula. 31yearold, College Dropout that studied chemistry. That doesnt do him justice. I got off the phone with officials. Heres what they said. Hes a very dangerous man. They believe hes a live in yem en. He designed the Christmas Day underwear bomb that failed to go off in detroit. He designed the cartridge bombs hiden in cargo planes headed for the u. S. Those were both foiled. In both case they evaded security detection at airports overseas. He has learned from the mistakes, experts say. Intelligence officials told me, quote, hes made efforts to study our detection capabablec s capabilities. Hes a ruthless guy. He sent his own brother. In 2009 he sent his brother to try to kill the Saudi Arabian minister. He hid a bomb in his brothers underwear or might have been in a body cavity. Thats not quite clear. The bomb went off. His brother was killed. The minister survived the attack. The bomb and brother got through security measures and got right next to the interior minister of saudi arabia. These guys are ruthless and know what theyre doing. They could be behind the latest threat. Its one of the tough orders of business for intelligence. They know these guys are out. There they do the best with what they hear and issue warnings. Thanks brian todd. Well continue to watch here at cnn. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie faces constituents and takes their questions. His first town hall meeting talking about super storm sandy. How will that affect the storm swirling around him . And we asked the Texas Governor about campaigning with you nugent. Well have that controversy. They lived. They lived. They lived. dad we lived. Thanks to our subaru. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. So you can have a getaway from what you know. So you can be surprised by what you dont. 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Any sign hes pulling off the bottom . Hes got a special Investigative Committee in the state of new jersey trying to force two of his former top aids to turn over documents which they are not doing. So he has that real cloud hanging over his head. Thats going to have to play itself out. Whats interesting on a National Level though because hes been attacked by the media, its actually helped him with conservatives who didnt really like Chris Christie very much. Theyre rallying to his defense within the Republican Party. While its hurt him nationally, it hasnt hurt him within the Republican Party which is honestly what he cares about right now. He wants to be president. Hes got to get a nomination. Another 2016 contender, scott walker, wisconsin brewing scandal on emails. Not quite rising to that level. We have thousands of pages of emails which have been released. Some are distasteful from former aids of his when he was county executive. Former aids were clearly mixing politics on government time. Thats a big no no. They were using private email accounts to hide thats a no no. A handful have been convicted on this. Walker himself has not been charged with any crimes. His office is clearly pointing that out. You know, so does this rise to the level of question of abuse of power in the christie scandal . No i dont think so at this point. What you look at is how did these people who are on the list, governors who might want to be president you look at how do they handle these situations . Look at Chris Christie today doing his job. You look at scott walker continuing to do his job defending himself. You know, this is part of the process that you go through if you with really want to get that ring in 2016. This is the idea of politicians mixing politics and state business. That would never shocked. Totally shocked. You know what, the state of wisconsin which is the birth place of Campaign Finance reform, these are very tough issues in that particular state. I think it could have impact statewide. Well be watching. Thanks very much. Just ahead, nugent called president barack obama a mongrel. Now the posing sanctions, is that an effective strategy . Ill talk to the ambassador next. Well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth. Cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip, and pow it instantly opens your nose up to 38 more so you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do. Sleep. Add breathe right to your cold medicine. Shut your mouth and sleep right. Breathe right. Go [ male announcer ] its chaos out there. But the mclass sees in your blind spot. Pulls you back into your lane. Even brakes all by itself. Its almost like it couldnt crash. Even if it tried. The 2014 mclass. 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Cnn caught up with him and asked him directly about the association with nugent. Greg abbott is in a high profile crowd in this Texas Restaurant owned by the grandparents of johnny manziel. When we asked about campaigning with nugent, things got tense. Why did you think it was a good idea to campaign with nugent . Its funny how the reactive Davis Campaign is to this. It shows that hes driven a wedge and exposed the fraud that they have displayed on Second Amendment based issues. So ted nugent was a way to expose wendy davis for her flip flopping on gun related issues. This is texas. Finding someone who is pro guns is not that hard. Why does it have to be ted nugent . Neither abbott or his campaign would answer questions. The rights arent in question. Greeters show the candidate next to his hunting trophy says it all. When we tried to follow up on the nugent question, a campaign aid stepped in. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. You could have talked to a lot of people about gun rights . Thats not a press conference. One question is not a press conference. Thats not a press conference. Come on nothing. We told you specifically what we wanted to talk about. We tried one more time to ask if greg abbott would appear with ted nugent . Would you give us a chance to clarify . Why would you associate yourself with someone who describes the sitting president as a mongrel, described female politicians in vile ways . Will you use him again in the campaign . Greg abbott didnt answer that time either and headed back out on the campaign trial. Cnn, tyler, texas. We heard abbott take a shot at his democratic rival. He avoided questions you despite tough questions. Sarah palin has jumped in to the fray. She wrote, if he is good enough for ted, he is good enough for me, end quote. You look at Something Like this and you have to wonder if candidates like this say that sort of stuff or associate themselves with people like ted nugent because theres an audience for it. Theres parts of the base that like to hear this type of i think this. Only person happier than nugent about in controversy is wendy davis. Abbotts opponent. I say that jim, because primary politics looks like this. I doubt ted nugent will be visible at time of general election. This serves greg abbotts base well. This fires up the troops. Any discussion of Second Amendment rights plays well for his base in texas. Im sure hes fundraising based on this link and association. I know wendy davis is drawing great attention from the safe issue. She gets to go to her base now, nationwide and say look what im up against, my god its ted nugent campaigning with my opponent. Each gets to do what they seek to do in primary season. Hes not alone like this candidate in texas. Ted cruise spoke to dana bash yesterday. He said he doesnt share nugents sentiment but, quote, theres a reason people listen to im. That is not disassociating himself. At least theres appeal to this line. These sort of sound bites it used to be the path of longevity and success in washington on state by state basis was pay dues, establish seniority. Those days are over. You Say Something in the tv world or talk radio, youre a super star. Everybody wants to associate with you to the extent to campaign. You cant pick your supporters. Hes campaigning with ted nugent. Ted has been a factor politically for a long time. Most candidates have kept him at arms length. Another issue, certainly hot button. Why is abbott campaigning the Second Amendment . Is there effort to repeal it in texas that we dont know about making it a hot button had you . My god, i would be shocked in at all places texas there were a repeal movement. When you talk about what motivates a primary voter, theres Nothing Better than guns, maybe abortion. Hes probably talking abortion as well. Those are the issues that strive people who are the hard core registered in the primary process to come out and vote. I suspect and we can revisit in six months it will be a completely different set of issues and focus come general election time. Grabbing a lot of headlines. Thanks very much on the Second Amendment about the president s comments. Speaking to us by satellite. Thank you. Ahead this hour u he accuses fellow republicans of trickery. Senator cruz says he is not the problem, they are. Dana bash goes one on one with cruz next. Does the u. S. Have what it takes to play peace maker . Well take a closer look. [ car alarm chirps ] [ male announcer ] we dont just certify our preowned vehicles. We inspect, analyze, and recondition each one, until its nothing short of a genuine certified preowned mercedesbenz for the next new owner. 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Those are snipers taking aim directly at protestors, firing into groups who gathered in the capitals independent square. A situation ukraine had been bubbling months. The bloody explosion has governments scrambling to respond. Joining me is Bill Richardson, former u. S. Ambassador to united nations. Bill richardson, president barack obama condemned violence in the ukraine using words like outrage. Hes now fast tracking sanctions against ukrainian leaders. I want to ask you in your experience, how powerful a tool is that . Can and should the u. S. Be doing more . Theyre a powerful tool, jim, because if the u. S. And military union push sanctions on the leadership, they cant travel. They cant come to europe or the u. S. Its a stage set of sanctions. The next sanctions would be economic, commercial, energy that would really bite. Its a stage proses. I think what were basically saying is all right, ukrainianu, clean up your own act. The opposition and leadership have a truce. Is this truce going to last stopping the violence . Maybe eventually jim, lead otino reduction in president s power and early election. Best scenario for ukrainians to resolve the crisis. If they cant, european union, u. S. Mediation and u. S. Pressure stepping in. This is a valuable, strong country resource wise. Its surprise of the former soviet union. A lot of Nuclear Weapons were there. A lot of ukrainian americans. We have interest in peaceful resolution of this true. This next question is going to sound basic. Its a conversation ive been having with colleagues. What are u. S. Interests there . Ukraine is close to allies of ours in europe. Does u. S. Have interest in the stable outcome there . We have an interest in regional stability in that region. Ukraine is very strategically located. The ukrainian people seem to want to move towards the west, toward the european union, toward the u. S. As opposed to soviet union which in the past put pressure on them in terms of natural gas exports. They want to move towards the west. Thats in our interest. This is a rich country in terms of energy, natural resource, strategic location in the black sea. There are a lot of ukrainian americans in the United States. What we want to see is regional stability there. We dont want to take it over from the russians. This is i think president putin wanted to recapture the old soviet power by being very strong with the ukrainians saying you are not going to the european union. Im going to loan you money. He loaned them 2 billion. Its not working because the ukrainian people, the opposition wants to move towards the west and the United States and europe. Well you get at an important point there. Russia is very involved. They want to keep the ukraine in there influence. It sounds like old soviet politics. Their fear, our fear. This is a worry. The question is, how far is he willing to go . Thats right. Do we see him encouraging using more violence, state of emergency, to end this . To win it back in effect for russia. I believe president putin is very pragmatic. My hope is after the successful olympics that russia has staged they will see its not in their interest for this violence to erupt so openly and for russia to be backing and keeping a live the current ukrainian government. I think what putin will pragmatically move in this direction, some kind of mediation so theres a political transition that eventually lets the ukrainian people decide in early elections. I think thats what russia needs to do. I wouldnt be surprised. Putin is pragmatic. He doesnt want to lose another battle as i think hes losing in syria where russia has the military advantage with syria. Internationally its not helping russi russias image. We have learned russia sent an enjoy to kiev offering to mediate. Would the other side, the opposition, trust a russian mediator . They probably would because they know that russia is controlling the president of ukraine, yanukovych. I think they want a peaceful resolution. In the end, they want transition where the president reduces power and maybe theres early election. They may not trust, but they would welcome. The violence is out of control. Thanks very much ambassador Bill Richardson. Certainly involved in this before. Great to have your point of view. Thank you. One thing we have to remember the violence in ukraine is playing out a few hundred miles from sochi and the winter olympics. Two members of the ukrainian team, her father and coach have dropped out in protest to the crack down. Heres what the Olympic Committee is saying. Quote, we appeal for peace and Mutual Understanding to find positive way forward for ukraine. Just hope that spirit extends back to ukraine. Coming up next, senator ted cruz accuses fellow republicans of trickery. He says dana bash yo work for political bosses in washington. 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I dont know how i would answer to them if i came back to ex the tex a back to texas and your led harry reed do that this is not any national newspaper. Their editorial says cruz played into democrats hand forcing those to take the fall so cruz would have one more moment in the limelight. Nice guy. You know people are looking at this saying this is you making it all about you. You know, no one should be surprised at the main stream media. That includes most texas newspapers. Sides with continually growing size of power an editorial page . Who said it was an editorial page. The only outcome possible was to give president barack obama every single thing he wanted. A big picture, you cant call this liberal. Its the wall street journal. The idea there this is what this is all about. You forced republicans to take votes that could hurt them in their races and could put the Republican Party in a may you y in a minority . The way we lose is not standing for anything. Youve been traveling around texas. Talk to an actual grass roots voter whos not in washington. They are beside themselves that Republican Leadership is leading the fight to raise the debt ceiling for president barack obama. Harry reed sat back and let leadership lead the fight. How do we win locations . I have a real difference of opinion with washington establishments. Some think republicans win elections by not standing for anything, keep your head down, dont rock the boat. Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls. 2006, 2010, 2012. Three elections we faced the washington establishment approach. Republicans got killed. The only election that was a good election for republicans was 2010. We stood a line in the sand. It was a tea party tsunami. It retook congress. It was historic. Youre seating with people around you that i think you have respect for, fellow senators in your own party. For them to be so mad at you, so mad at you, whats that like . Listen, what i try to keep an eye on is that i dont work for party bosses in washington. As a human being as a human being i cant control what they say or how they behave. I control what i do. Every interaction i have with every senator is civil, courteous, respectful treating them with dignity they deserve. Whats treated as painful is not insult. Its speaking the truths. I think many would far rather me call them a blankty blankty blank. They wanted to cast a vote pretending they were opposed to it. How does ted cruz stack against other possible contenders for 2016 . The latest poll, hes at 8 which puts him in seventh place. Tension between Tea Party Conservatives and House Speaker john boehner is escalating. Hear how one group is trying to get him out of his leadership position. Thats coming up next. So you can get out of your element. So you can explore a new frontier and a different discipline. 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When groups come out and criticize an agreement that they have never seen, you begin to wonder just how credible those actions are. Frankly i think they are misleading their followers. They are pushing in places they dont want to be. I think they have lot of all credibility. They are talking about republicans. Joining us now from atlanta. Patricia murphy. I know you talked to one of the Tea Party Groups taking on boehner. The first question is how big of a threat are they to him . I would say listen. For him to get reelected to congress, they are no threat at all. For him to be reelected speaker, when you start to look at the fact that john boehner almost didnt make it through almost a first ballot process, he made it by about six votes. No opposition and no specific opposition. He did have conservative opposition in 2012. They could start to chip away and look at the republicans who announced their retirement, a number of those are john boehner loyalists and allies and they voted for him and pushed him for speaker. When these groups who have been against boehner all along and they start to base their support on a persons candidacy based on whether they will support john boehner in the future as speaker, that is a different story. We heard republicans explain about nancy pelosi. Thats why this is important. No question. Could this backfire on Tea Party Conservatives if it damages the party as a whole going into a race . I think the tea party is already baked into the cake. That establishment is against them. John boehner made it very clear there is no love lot of between them. A number of these groups, moderate republicans call these purity for profit groups. They basically say its a financial sham. Its a way to raise money from activists. If you talk to the activists on the other hand, a lot of them were part of why they picked up republicans in 2010. They are not supportive of the speaker. They are not supportive of the house and Senate Leadership and they are serious about getting rid of them. He had support all along, but if you chip away at the edges or start to slow his momentum for 2o 15 as speaker, thats when it starts to matter. The feud is real, but i dont think Tea Party Members are losing any sleep over it whatsoever. You mentioned money there. This is one of the powerful and well funded outside groups. Where is the money coming from for the Madison Project . It comes from groosz roots activists. With the advent of facebook and twitter, it is never easier for groups to have a nationwide base of support and they can their own information and ask for contributions from people who support them. If you have a group that is based in washington, you can get support from activists in Washington State and funnel that or send that to groups that you support or candidates you support in georgia or alabama or louisiana. This network of grass roots donors made it possible for these groups to welcome so powerful. Just briefly before we go, boehner now are they going after other republicans who cooperated with democrat sms. I think absolutely. They will go after anybody in the house Republican Leadership or the senate Republican Leadership. What is new about this is they are going after any member of congress or candidate who said they would vote for the same leadership in the future. You are running for the house and do you support john boehner for speaker . That is the direction you are heading in. You get a sense of republican candidates who use this as a litmus test saying i am the real conservative because i dont support john baker for speaker. Interparty warfare. 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Maybe, just maybe we will continue doing business that way. More action in four months than two or three years. The Economic Growth over the last six months and progress. Thats it for me. Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin starts now. Great to be with all of you. Im Brooke Baldwin. Before i begin, a warning off the top here. Some of the video you are about to see is quite graphic. In ukraine, the battle on the streets has intensified and snipers are firing