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In the coming days. >> anna coren, thank you very much, reporting there live. its that kind of reporting that makes a difference, because its hard for anyone to know whats going on. the number of troops, is it 6,000 or 16,000? congressman peter king is on the house intelligence committee. great to talk to you as always, sir. this issue about intelligence. john mccain obviously aggressively questioning secretary hagel today about what the u.s. knew and what he calls another massive intelligence f...

Positions, and this is not uncommon in situations like this where sides stake out their most extreme possible positions before negotiations begin. and so, the russian -- pro-russian faction in the crimea could simply be setting up -- setting themselves up for a negotiation where now it is up to the westerners, its up to the ukrainians to mollify them and get away with as much autonomy as they can get. >> and theres this debate about whether the united states should have known before. senator mcc...

Cautious they know that restraint is in order because as soon as anything happens, then putin may use that as an excuse to escalate the situation it is a game of being very patient. >> another big development today. intracon missile john negroponte director of national intelligence and former u.n. ambassador. he joins us. good evening, ambassador. >> good evening. >> i dont think what the russians did is surprising but on the other hand identifying the circumstances and the facts leading up to a...

Assaults and threats that nobody else can find, clearly a pretext, and essentially an effort to upend is post cold war era here on viability of borders on meeting the arrangements put in place including the protection of ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity at the end of the cold war. this is a really important moment for the united states to lead. >> mike rogers, chairman of house intelligence committee, says he wants a full-scale review now of intelligence because he says there was ...

They rely on the best information possible but are invariably incomplete and the one wild card speaking to a number of officials, woman, tlf vladimir putin. some are saying it was a snap judgment by him so difficult to predict. >> the chairman of the house intelligence committee wants a full-scale investigation to learn lessons to see if there were intelligence failures. >> no question. we were talking about that last week. we heard this consistently from u.s. officials. it was their assessment ...

Cautious they know that restraint is in order because as soon as anything happens, then putin may use that as an excuse to escalate the situation it is a game of being very patient. >> another big development today. intracon missile john negroponte director of national intelligence and former u.n. ambassador. he joins us. good evening, ambassador. >> good evening. >> i dont think what the russians did is surprising but on the other hand identifying the circumstances and the facts leading up to a...

To be done from a position of strength, of leverage. we have frayed our relationship in europe with some of our key ally. poland, the cheks reeb. you have to have them as solid allies. thats been the frustration here is you cant just deal with the diplomacy of this issue today. this needed to be a lead-up to this event. >> okay. >> and what about the issue, mike, of missing intelligence, the issue of whether or not russian troops had actually invaded crimea? >> were looking at this. ive ordered ...

Pentagon, live this afternoon. jennifer, thanks very much. so many people across the united states and beyond asking, how come nobody knew this was about to happen? if president putin had this plan to go in and essentially take over crimea, howd we miss it? katherine harris works intelligence for us and is live from washington for us. katherine, is there an answer yet? >> confirming new details of these assessments, analysts confirming the friday there would be no russian movements for 24 hours,...

Officials ranging from secretary kerry, secretary hagel right up to the top, right up to the president. you saw his comments yesterday. it is a sobering development. the fact is, u.s. officials were already telling us yesterday that those masked troops on the ground as of yesterday in and around crimea were russian so now you have a public in effect acknowledgment from the russian government that the president wants to send troops in there, this authorization. i think the other point is that you...

By susan rice which were sharply rejected by her republican critics. on sunday the chairman of the house oversight committee still reje rejects the u.s. version of events. >> they did not name this video as a prime cause. there was a small piece of information and they seized on it along with a lot of other information and chose that as a talking point. >> the administration has not disputed the article even though its actions before the attack are called into question, the reports main author s...