Michael Crowely News Today

As in the reports, no shots fired, no violence as of yet, but there are no guarantees. you now have escalated language of surrender or action will be taken and that coming down in the last few hours, directed at troops in crimea on those bases. >> exactly. and this is a classic putin and its classic picktorial behavior. push forward until they meet steel. they have met efforts by not only the ukraine government, but his goal is to ensure that not just crimea, but the entire ukraine remains in hi...

By russia is already being discussed heavily. >> thats a good question. putin knows that were upset. he knows were worried, knows that well do, what i would call, pin prick sanctions and other things people we ask identify wont be able to have accounts in the united states, but none of that is going to impress him. what would impress him is long-term american actions to change the equation of how we deal with the world for the last 20 years, which has been based upon the assumption that if we tr...

Kerry, whos on his way to the region, saying this is 19th century behavior from russia. what are you anticipating or looking to as the next critical move here? is it kerry on the ground there? >> well, unfortunately, im not sure how much kerry on the ground will accomplish. i think its a show of support for ukraine, but what im really looking at now is, do we see violence? its a disturbing report the ukrainian troops have been ordered to surrender and we now have a real threat of force in the ai...

Days, and the latest developments are that russian fighter jets have been flying over the black sea. ukraine says that violates its air space, and russia is probing, testing ukraine, and testing the wests response, as well. and one foot note, russia has just decided to bring crimea and the mainland closer together, literally, its planning a huge bridge between crimea and the russian mainland. crimea, pulling away from ukraine fast. tamron? >> thank you very much. now let me bring in james jeffre...