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Its given the lie to the idea thats economic integration will different us leverage over moscow. the lens goes both ways. the russians are more successful using their economic leverage than the west is. bill: john bolton, thank you, sir. >> reporter: a new study is sounding the alarm on the looming crisis. think about this crisis for real. how much money do you have set aside for your retirement? the staggering numbers on what could be a national problem. stuart varney joins us up next on that. ...

Dont have another chose. we have to defend. our independence. >> russia intervening a bit more today, saying they would back a panel that would essentially rewrite the constitution of ukraine, kiev rejecting that. shep? >> greg is live in independence square. john bus see is buss is with us now, sanctions. theyre exist now. >> yes. >> particularly from europe. >> thats probably a few weeks ago might not have expected that. >> i dont think many did. >> thats a sign of the times. that globalize. >...

Seemed increasingly confirmed today by at least multiple bits of reporting there, it appears, multiple sources are this westward turn and the fact the flight continued to fly. yesterday that had been reported but a lot of that reporting was a lot murkier that it appears today. >> okay. so lets assume we have three things. it took off at kuala lumpur,s it went missing and appears to have made that western turn. everything else is a way -- were getting lots of data points through kind of leaks in ...

And putin is winning. >> we have heard the president refer to the fact he thinks putin has different lawyers and he is not paying alot of attention to the lawyers and international law. in terms of what the president can do, if he wanted to be force full, what would he do? >> he has to stay the united states, as in 2008, favors bringing a democratic ukraine into the nato. this isnt about integration into the european union. this is about power and security. until we show putin we are prepared to...

have our head in the clouds and we will talk about that in a minute. we have just reconnected with ian. >> can you hear us? >> i. >> youre back from ukraine. tell us what you saw over there, first of all, and do you agree with bob gates that crimea is all but lost? >> wow. >> well, we were in crimea -- excuse me. we were in kiev on thursday and friday, and three things struck me. first was the profound determination of the ukrainian authorities to seize a second chance to consolidate ukraines...

Here. our preference is not to keep hyping up sanctions, our preference is to find an end to this conflict thats happening through engagement through discussion. >> those discussions remain at a stalemate. a 60-minute phone call between president obama and president putin visiting the sochi paralympics today revealed continuing divisions. and a phone call between kerry and lavrov ended with this saying sanctions would, quote, hit the united states like a boomerang. now with a referendum in crime...

Russia is violating international law because a country that moscow -- a government that moscow supported was rejected by the vast majority of the ukrainian people, because they wanted to determine their own future, because they wanted to be able to make the decision as to their integration with europe. our whole point is it doesnt have to be a negative thing. >> jay carney thinking i didnt see that question coming this morning. no one prepared me for that one. >> a cartoon thought bubble over h...

Take crimea back because crimea i dont think is going back to ukraine. >> you think this is done. >> i really think it is done. it may stay as part of ukraine, maybe if putin is convinced that that would take off his back, all this international pressure, but his troops are not going to go away, and those crimeans who are there are not going to go back to ukraine, either. so its some sort of a -- i think it is, i think its a done deal. hes not going to get out. >> then the domino question, right...

Shouldnt be thinking of how to take crimea back because crimea i dont think is going back to ukraine. >> you think this is done. >> i really think it is done. it may stay as part of ukraine, maybe if putin is convinced that that would take off his back, all this international pressure, but his troops are not going to go away, and those crimeans who are there are not going to go back to ukraine, either. so its some sort of a -- i think it is, i think its a done deal. hes not going to get out. >> ...

>> well, ukraine is russian. thats it. thats the point. and i really think that today we shouldnt be thinking of how to take crimea back because crimea i dont think is going back to ukraine. >> you think this is done. >> i really think it is done. it may stay as part of ukraine, maybe if putin is convinced that that would take off his back, all this international pressure, but his troops are not going to go away, and those crimeans who are there are not going to go back to ukraine, either. so it...