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In isolating the russians. here you have the president kind of inviting putin over for a sleepover with no promise. the president said it was a great phone call. looking the see did putin agree to leave him in eastern ukraine, give crimea back. extradite those 13 russians we have indicted. no. this is almost unconditional respect that the president is willing to give putin. it harms our relationship the our allies. >> presidents dont get to be casual. it isnt accurate when youre talking about th...

Going to be facing sooner or later. how come? >> when i lived in russia, in the 1990s, it was i guess in 1995 when the russians were forced to sign a treaty where they gave up crimea. i remember liberals, communist, conservatives every politician in russia said to each other they were some day going to have crimea back. that was always going to happen. it was always going to be in the cards. and somehow or another the obama administration took their eye off the ball. and it was during their sieg...

To this yet. were not at that point. military is the blunt point of policy. were not there yet. theres an escalating concern from the west that theres a template forming of the way crimea was grabbed through the use of paramilitaries and no sort of real, real incursion through russian troops into crimea. it used this underhand means. >> a stealth invasion. >> a stealth invasion. theyre two very different. we have to separate them. i understand why putin grabbed crimea, sevastopol. >> the locatio...