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That live if the eastern part of the country. there is valid expectation. if hes not going to do a full-on invasion of the country, might he try to lop off another part of it. of course he lopped off crimea. maybe he wants to do the same with donbas so not committing himself fully militarily but causing problems on the ground with ukraine and their partners. >> how does it look outside? youre joining us from connecticut, right? >> i am. it looks like siberia. ive been there. >> oh, my gdness. be...

On the verge of ordering an attack on the separatist areas, something president zelensky has denied. matt bradley is in eastern ukraine less than 30 miles from the russian border, not far from those separatist regions. matt, whats going on? >> reporter: yeah, we just heard this from the head of the russian self-declared donting peoples republican. these are two place where is russia invaded back in 2014 and cleved off crimea, these places were essentially the site of an uprising of what moscow t...

United states thatll also embarrass him at home whether thats sending troops into poland or sending weapons in to poland or whether it is if he moves towards kiev, possibly sending troops to western ukraine, absolutely the worse case scenario but is this a confrontation that vladimir putin wants to have? does he want 100,000 troops sitting in poland? >> remember the last two times putin has done this when he bid off crimea, there was a lot of rhetoric that you cant do this that our loyalty frien...

At six: a close encounter between russia and the royal navy in the black sea off crimea. russia says its fired shots and dropped bombs in the path of hms defender — a claim the ministry of defence has denied — but our correspondent on—board says the situation is tense. this russian coast guard vessel has come up right close to this british warship and is trying now to force it to change course. if you dont change the course, i will fire — if you dont change the course, i will fire. . . ....

Sending a clear message, hands off crimea. russia needs to move its proxy forces out of eastern ukraine where current conflict is taking place. russia is the problem, not the solution in this crisis. ed: we may be getting live pictures inside that breakfast between the president of finland and donald trump. let me know if we do have it come up. the bottom line is the president is having breakfast to get ready for the big one on one with vladimir putin, you see the two pres.s meeting, their staff...

Meeting. ed: we have been talking about crimea. some of our guests have been saying crimea is critical for the president to not recognize russias annexation of crimea, so controversial, a legal maneuver by vladimir putin, the guests said they dont think it will be a big part, nothing donald trump can do about something that happened in the obama administration. what is the way forward if there is one? >> hands off crimea. this is critical for the president. if vladimir putin is allowed to steal ...

Russia on partnering to try to defeat isis? >> i think ambassador haley, at the u.n., any annexations to crimea are not -- until that has been resolved. the president has made it very clear that miss philosophy is not one that im going to tell you what im going to do, he colds his cards close to his vest. >> -- to deal with sanctions. >> im not going to get into the presidents negotiation strategy. as he continues to engage with the president of russia around secretary tillerson -- brian, its yo...

Still in his job. >> id refer you to the tkep of treasury on that. >> the president tweeted that russia, quote, ran over united states an in particular picked off crimea and added missiles which the president described in his tweet as weak. as has been called for by the house and armed services committee chairman and both party platforms although the republican language was watered down? and if hes not going to, i did ask you this several weeks ago when senator mccain sent a letter asking for th...

House asking -- do you have any response to that? >> i dont. ill refer taught department of treasury. >> the other day the president tweeted that for the past eight years during the obama presidency russia, quote, ran over the united states, and in part, picked off crimea and added missiles, which the president described in his tweet as weak. given he seems to be focused on crimea, as far as the tweet is concerned, will the president use the authority and funding granted him in the ntaa to letha...

Commissioner is still in his job. would you have any response to that? >> i dont. i would refer you to the department of treasury on that. >> the president tweeted for the past eight years during the obama presidency russia quote ran over the united states and in particular picked off crimea and added missiles which the president described in his tweet as weak. given that he seems to be focused on crimea, at least as far as his tweet is concerned will the president use the authority and funding ...