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West candidate. you see the east-west split here and those in the east, all the bright red you see, that side a lining with russia and the west, the shades of blue here and lining up with the west. my next guest said they go way beyond the geography. julia, nice to have you on. >> fascinating piece on the new republic. you spent recent day this is this city in eastern ukraine. you visit this university and you are talking to those who are pro russian integration versus the younger students who a...

Moment has not shown an inclination to take more of ukraine or go deeper into that part of the country. >> as of right now. thats the case. we dont know whats in his mind. bill: i want to go through this and keep it simple what is the possibility of taking 13,000 to 16,000 russian troops out of crimea. based on what i see they are essentially station thrtd ao -- stationed there at the naval post. >> thats right. yanukovych was run out of power because he would not recognize the will of the peopl...

Standpoint, has to be done with our europeans or it wont have much of an effect on the decisions that are made on the ground in moscow. >> isnt part of the issue here, though, that if you believe vladimir putin is acting with some sort of plan and acting in an irrational if not amoral sense, it will be worth to bear whatever the cost is because hes made the calculation that this territorial assertion and scaring the ukrainian government into not trying to cross him, the new one, that this is wor...

Full integration right now, the russian economy in europe, some bold and courageous decisions by countries there could send that economy into an absolute freefall and theyre not in a really strong position to begin with. the strength of their economy has been always dependent on russian oil. europe is starting to diversify. theyre only forecasting about 1% growth next year. they are not really in a position to withstand a big economic hit. and my hope is that our european allies will stand with ...

Perhaps kicking moscow out of the group of eight, but the reality is, weve heard these types of threats or this type of positioning against russia in the past. "the new york times" headline reads, making russia pay. its not so simple, and, thus, getting a reaction or a compromise from vladimir putin is not as simple as some would have it to be. >> not at all. vladimir putin was well aware of the tools, the limited tools we had at our disposal to punish him when he carried out this operation. pre...

Cheated up against russia and many are saying this is what needs to happen. a ratcheting up of all believers of the united states and the rest of the world, you know, eu have to use against russia. you know russia has its economy fully tied into the world now, fully tied into europe and the rest of the world. so any kind of sanctions and any kind of pulling out of business ties would really, really hurt russia and people are calling for those to be applied now. >> given the integration of these ...

U.s. and the european allies as well. but looking inside of ukraine, because you can see the split inside of the country, itself. and here is the eastern part of the country, and borders russia, and 75% of the population here speaks russian, and the western part of the countkun trcountry europe 5% of the country speaks russian. they lean towards the west. this is the part of the country that politically supported a closer integration with the eu, and the european union. this is a part of the cou...

>> its interesting positioning. >> it is interesting positioning, but hes fighting again, talk about rear guard action. hes fighting a party -- you asked marco rubio himself. the reason he may not be a serious contender is because hes alienated a right wing base on a matter of immense political concern to the future of the republican party bringing in hispanic voters. i mean, obviously if youre a gay or lesbian person in america and looking at what happened in arizona, youre thinking maybe that ...

Movements at home and he is feeling vulnerable. we dont have a lot of leverage and particularly and unless we want to put our money where our mouth is, the american public and taxpayer is not going to support. you need to win over ukraine right now, either a bunch of tanks which we are not going to do for a lot of money because the economy is a basket case. >> lets get to the money. this has been going on, this proxy war between the west and russia for quite a while. it comes down to money. you ...

But theres a big difference and the supreme court, i think, would find a big difference between having the federal government compel religious institutions from pro siding abortions at their hospitals or contraception at their hospitals, which is something weve been battling. or even having, lets say, bob jones university hire somebody to work on their staff that is -- that is gay. theres a big difference between that and having -- and i think the court would find theres a big difference between...