situation. thanks very much. more now on that u.n. special enjoy threatened today, blockaded by armed militiamen forced to take refuge na cafe, the special envoy to ukraine, robert ferry, joins us on the phone exclusively. i take it you re in istanbul, you re out of ukraine right now. tell us what happened. what was it like? yes, let me try to explain what happened. as you know the secretary-general had asked me to go to the crimea and actually to report back to him on the situation there. i had tried to be going there already a couple of days ago. it proved impossible then. this time in coordination with doc, which is still on the ground. i had started my meetings and it was my objective to meet with as many parties as possible. so for instance, i d be meeting
and he would act this way regardless of who the president of the united states is. it s ridiculous to say it s because of something president obama does or doesn t do. reporter: there is surprisingly similarity among republicans and democrats over what to do about the situation now, wolf. in fact, there is going to be a bipartisan resolution before the house foreign affairs committee with el yet engel and counterpart voted on tomorrow. nonbinding, but it will say they should deal with sanctions and there will be something on the floor dealing with loan guarantees which is what the president wants. see more of dana s interview later tonight on ac 360. a special u.n. envoy has an encounter with armed men.
with him, when you went to moscow representing president obama, what was your impression? take us inside his mind. how did he come across to you? quite straightforward and direct in his interactions with you. there were occasions when he would assert things that just weren t true. for example, that the united states and the west were behind certain activities in moscow. but quite direct person to deal with. but did you get the impression he s an intelligent guy, a smart guy, someone on top of the situation in that sense? i got the sense that he was, you know, well informed, spoke clearly, understood where his strategic goals were, what his strategic goals were but in fact would make a number of assertions that were demonstrably false even in private conversations. but you could push back on it. give me an example. my first meeting with him was in may of 2012 on a friday night before he was inaugurated as president for the second time of
tickets had been reserved for me already to get out. and then now happy to be in istanbul. let me put this also, wolf, in perspective. you know, what has happened to me, i hope serves as a reminder to all how dangerous the situation has become in the crimea. there is a very urgent need to de-escalate this situation. all those who are responsible and can do that must have cool heads, lower their rhetoric and fix this situation. i am very worried for what would happen if there is bloodshed. there are people in the crimea who actually behaved there with a lot of self-restraint. you know, mr. serry, i m happy you re out of there because it was a very tense situation. i take it these were armed militiamen, these individuals who were preventing you from
doing what your job was. were you ever at any moment scared for your life? no, wolf. i wasn t. i wasn t. i ve been in some other situations, and i didn t i cannot say that i felt very comfortable, but i no, it s not that i felt directly threatened, no, i didn t. what i ve been told by experts including u.s. officials, one of the nightmare scenarios they have is exactly what you re describing, some hot heads there, some thugs, if you will, they get involved in real bloodshed and who knows what could happen, how this bad situation could escalate. that s your nightmare scenario as well. how worried are you that that could happen? i think it can happen. and that s why i feel that there is an immediate need to address this situation. how can it be calmed down? what other step you re a diplomat. you were representing the united