good morning. i m john muller. i m reena ninan in for diana perez. here are some of the top headlines we re following this morning on world news now. the search continues so far without success for possible debris from malaysia airlines flight 370. crews from the u.s., australia and new zealand are in the air. but stormy weather is making their efforts even more difficult. full coverage coming up. and it s tit for tat over crimea. u.s. has placed sanctions over vladimir putin s richest friends and russia is telling nine top u.s. officials they are not welcome. there are questions about the security at ground zero. a new jersey teen was able to climb to the top of one world trade center, the nation s tallest building, without any
could have anticipated. it was total surprise. guess what? we re always surprised. we never expect we ll wind up fighting wherever we wind up fighting. but we have to be ready for a range of contingencies. my concern is, as we cut the defense department as sharply as we re cutting it, down in many cases to funding levels not seen on a relatively basis since before world war ii, we are fighting aggression and making it exceedingly difficult for to us respond to unexpected contingencies like the one playing out in ukraine. jenna: bigger point i m glad we got to today, max. it brings up so many more issues how much control we really have and what type of preparation we need. good to see you. thank you for joining us. look forward to having you back. thanks for having me on. jon: what about economic battles? tougher u.s. sanctions over the land grab by russia over crimea are hurting the russian economy. credit ratings agency standard & poor s downgraded the russian credit outlook to
kilometers across the ukrainian border inside russia. and as you mentioned, chris, they could easily mount an invasion in the blink of an eye. and there would be no way that the u.s. could have any kind of meaningful advance warning. even if there is an invasion into ukraine. and nobody is predicting that it will happen. but even if there is, there s little that the u.s. can do about it. there certainly wouldn t be a u.s. military response, so then it would end up being the ratcheting up of whatever sanctions, whatever diplomatic measures the u.s. can take. and along that line, the only u.s. military ship that was in the black sea anywhere near crimea left the black sea this morning. the guided missile destroyer, which has rejoined the george h.w. carrier battle group in the mediterranean, chris. jim, thank you so much for joining us. i wanted to bring in washington editor at large for the atlantic, steve clemens, and
excitement and interest in people around the world trying to work on this but also a lot of frustration. in the early days of the air france 4477 investigation, there was a some similar confusion. we didn t join the fray until months later. but there was always that question about were we getting the right news and how much of it was misinformation. and was there something here behind the scenes that no one knew about. in the end, being on the inside of that circle, i can tell you that it s not easy to do the job you re supposed to do when the whole world is looking at you and criticizing your efforts. i ve been there and not a pleasure. certainly not. and yet, at the same time, there s, you know, there s a great deal of concern when people look and they say even countries that are nominally allied and cooperative want to hold things back. they don t want to give up their security standing, that kind of stuff. thanks for joining us tonight. thank you, ari. coming up, presiden
vladimir putin is expected to discuss crimea today when he addresses parliament. on monday he moved to recognize crimea s secession from ukraine. that comes after the u.s. and europe imposed sanctions following sunday s crimea referendum. western leaders are freezing assets and imposing travel bans on more than two dozen senior russian and crimean officials. u.s. president barack obama warns he s prepared to go even further if moscow does not back down. we can calibrate our response based on whether russia chooses to escalate or to deescalate the situation. now, i believe there s still a path to resolve this situation diplomatically in a way that addresses the interest of both russia and ukraine. that includes russia pulling its forces in crimea back to their bases, supporting the deployment of additional international monitors in ukraine and engaging in dialogue with the ukrainian government. we are expecting president putin to say more about crimea