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What are their major concerns. >> a lot of that are concerns are the same ones that david laid out that other world leaders share, that russia has not done anything to back away from their invasion and annexation of cry meimea, russis been more aggressive. they have meddled in the u.s. elections, they have meddled in european elections. they have shown they want to do nothing to change their aggressive behavior and they have stepped it up, seeing inviting putin to something like this is a way of...

>> they havent put sanctions already -- >> hold on a second. i have to say about this administration, president weird, russia accept. but the notion that this administration has not moved on the legislation passed by congress on russia is just simply false. >> they moved, but it was the speed with which they moved. >> i looked at iran sanctions, missile sanctions, nuclear sanctions. i have never seen an administration move so fast as they did. this oligarchs list, the other list they put togethe...

Of him. the state department dismissed them saying we must wait and see what the team comes up with. >> thank you. >> president obama has a christmas present for his not so good buddy vladimir putin. more sanctions over russias annexation of crimea. kevin cork reports on the latest bump in the road of a rocky relationship. >> reporter: so much for the russia reset. >> the relationship between us and russia has deteriorated sadly. significantly over the last several years. >> it has seen the admi...

Of him. the state department dismissed them saying we must wait and see what the team comes up with. >> thank you. >> president obama has a christmas present for his not so good buddy vladimir putin. more sanctions over russias annexation of crimea. kevin cork reports on the latest bump in the road of a rocky relationship. >> reporter: so much for the russia reset. >> the relationship between us and russia has deteriorated sadly. significantly over the last several years. >> it has seen the admi...

That is produced we certainly stand squarely on the side of the right of private individual s to express themselves and that is a view that is strongly held by this administration as it has been throughout the history of our country. >> quickly on one other matter, the eu announced some -- a ban on businesses doing investments in cry meimea, can you give us update on the presidents plan to sign the bill? >> let me first begin with the russia sanctions bill as it relates to the ukraine, the presi...

Why? crimea gives them an essential warm water port, it gives them a base for the black sea fleet. so putins nightmare sees this canceling russias lease on the black sea fleet base and taking over cry meimea and bringing th enemy up to russias border. for him, its a double whammy. in terms of clearing russian forces or pushing them back, neither the u.s. nor nato are contemplating a military action and talking about ukraines military quite quickly, its the second largest european military appare...