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Generations for almost 100 years. suddenly one year after a court battle they dont. he had paid taxes. he had clear title and a deed to, then suddenly he doesnt. were wondering under what kind of pretext the federal government could act and why do they need to be looking at this? we were told they were coming back because they were going to take another bite. there is 116-mile stretch of that border, so we did a video that you probably have seen where we allowed those texas farm and ranch famili...

Brink of civil war. in geneva last week, russia, the u.s. and ukraine reached a deal to end this crisis. but its had no impact on the ground. the separatists are russian- speaking ukrainians who say they want an independent state or at least more autonomy. ukraines government and the u.s. accuse russia of stirring up the insurgency and fear a re- run of what happened in crimea last month when separatist demonstrations were a pretext for thousands of russian soldiers to move in and then annex the...

Sort of pretext to invade eastern ukraine. of course that really ratchets up the rhetoric again after it looked over the past couple of days things might be warming down. clearly the agreement reached in they gee va on thursday is something that while it might not yet be falling apart is certainly in a lot of trouble. the government in kiev for its part has been trying to calm the situation down over the easter holidays that are currently going on, calling for a unilateral truth, saying their an...

Police force in that sense that could give russia a pretext to launch a full-scale invasion here into eastern ukraine. jenna, back to you. jenna: well closely watch that part of world. leland thank you. jon: to build or not to build, that is the question looming on the keystone pipeline. most americans say, yes, get the thing built. environmentalists say no. democrats are not sure. for more on the controversial issue and potential impact on the midterms, doug mckelway live in washington. >> repo...

Had supported protesters in the capital kiev who earlier this year drove out the countrys former president, and this demand was coming, according to the flier, from pro-russian separatists, those who are still occupying government buildings here, trying to break away from ukraine and establish what they describe as the peoples republic of donetsk. the flier was signed by the man who leads that movement. weve spoken to him, and he denies any knowledge, says he has nothing to do with it, says he b...

Government buildings here, demanding that the region break away from ukraine and form what theyre calling the peoples republic of donetsk. the man who leads that movement, his name was at the bottom of the document, but weve spoken to him, and he denies any involvement whatsoever, knows nothing of it, says it is some sort of what he says is a provocation. and that is very much the mood among the jewish community here, too. they think that someone could be trying to sew fear, perhaps create a pre...

Russian patriotic music police, men with baseball bats. at journalists we were thenned in terms of being able to be there and film what was going on. they put it large barricades that were afraid the ukrainian army was going to move in. this is the balance being struck. the ukrainians dont want to move on these buildings because it would give president putin a pretext to send some of the tens of thousands of troops that he had massed along the russian border, which is just a few miles from here,...

Ukrainian army does not want to move in because they feel that would give president putin pretext to use the force he says he is legally allowed to. he will cross the border and take over this part of the country. obviously if he chose to do that, possible for the russian army to take over and the begin very bloody civil war. back to you. >> thank you. please be safe. from putin to a new poll in which 61% of americans think the president lies about important matters. some or most of the time. an...

They are producing today. amy kellogg is live in london with the latest for us now. amy? >> reporter: hi, jenna. meantime the situation in southeastern ukraine has not deescalated. there is a lot of confusion and a lot of misinformation and critically three pro-russian activists or separatists were killed last night by ukrainian soldiers. so far ukrainian troops have been incredibly restrained for one reason or another from opening fire. this sort of incident could potentially provide the pretex...

Alliance. >> and can i ask you briefly to do something which is impossible which is to get into vladimir putins head, and the other thing that david ignatius did is to lay out options for putin and all bad for the u.s. lean towards ukraine, and then lean to the annex of ukraine, and then invasion, and using the pretext of civil war which is something that you talk ed abou. what do you think that putin is going to do here? >> i imagine that the strategy is to weaken and hollow out the ukrainian g...