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Ian williams, also in the ukrainian capital of kiev and whats happening on the ground there, in particular the crimea region. ian, what is the latest you are seeing? >> reporter: hi, tamron. well, just to pick up from what andrea was saying, its going to be interesting to see what kerry has to say, how he reacts to that putin press conference. it was a bit of a rambling press conference, to be honest, and pretty combative, as well, talking about a illegitimate government here, a coup, and the ri...

Happy to take some questions. >> thank you, first question from andrea mitchell, nbc. theres a microphone coming. >> thank you very much. mr. secretary, u.s. officials have been saying that vladimir putin will be isolated by his actions, yet today he seemed defiant, speaking for an hour, taking questions, he said, among other things, that russia reserves the right to take any action to use any means, obviously, military means. he described events here as an unconstitutional coup. he denied that ...

Minutes from now. meantime, speaking publicly for the first time since the ukraine crisis boiled over, president putin accused the west of encouraging a, quote, unconstitutional coup in ukraine and said russia reserves the right to use military force as a, quote, last resort. however, these images, obviously, are stirring. russian troops, who had taken control of a ukrainian air base in crimea fired warning shots as ukraine soldiers approached. all this as we said with secretary of state john ke...