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Theyve been weak. so this coming week, how tough are the europeans willing to be? the russian army will use any pretext to roll thanks over the ukrainians. watching them digging trenches watch in eastern ukraine makes one think of world war i. >> its interesting, too, to hear chairman rogers and his fear, a real fear that the intelligence committees have and community has and others that, in fact, vladimir putin wont stop in crimea. heres the cover of the in crimea. heres the cover of "the econo...

It has impact here domestically, as well. we have to get things done in the united states at the same time. >> at the same time though, what we see with putin and david, you just alluded to it, is that he is now whipping up this nationalism which is very appealing to large parts of teeny sections of moldova which are saying we want to be russian, too. he could use the pretext of self-determination with these groups in eastern ukraine and elsewhere saying we want to be russian. and then what do w...

Rite wing part of american foreign policy discourse, yet we know that international monitors can have a huge role as either a pretext for invasions and we saw that in iraq and other places or as an offramp. i mean, this is a potentially significant thing. russians ambassador to the u.n. spoke tonight to "this evening with charlie rose." we have an early excerpt. he says all the regions in ukraine including eastern and southeastern regions, which are very restive because of what they see in kiev,...

>> reporter: were talking about the people who signed up for these new health care exchanges maybe on health care.gov, maybe through their state exchanges. insurers who have participated in it say that their costs are rising so much as a result of the botched roll out last fall all of the problems with healthercare.gov all the delays and adjustments we hear from the administration have had a direct impact none surers bottom line and so they say that the only way they can recoup those costs is by...

Ability of lgbt groups and lgbt people to march openly in this parade. you know, their assertion was essentially that the veterans that we have put forward, we had a group of veterans we work with on a regular basis. most ironically we worked with them to repeal "dont ask, dont tell." our idea was to have them march like other veterans do in this parade, to march behind a banner that would identify them as lesbian, gay, transgender veterans and to march behind their standard, which is the rainbo...

Nationalities, both in the east and in the west, and we found ways of resolving these issues. giving maximum rights to minorities and dissolving borders so that people can happily go along as, indeed, they have been doing in crimea and eastern ukraine. remember, not a single russian or russian speaker has so far been harmed. so there isnt even a pretext for everything that is being done. >> president ilves, do you want something in particular from washington, from president obama? what do you th...

Subject of russian as soon as the polls closed sunday. but yes, the real fear, whats happening on the eastern border of ukraine and russia, near an industrial town to the east, 8,500 russian troops conducting exercises which the russian ministry of defense said were there to make them familiar with territory theyre not particularly aware of at the moment. thats going to be causing real fears in new government in kiev. weve also seen an outbreak of violence between pro-russian and pro-ukrainian p...

>> you could have said that about crimea as well, and as you describe the videotapes, thats a pretext the russians always reserved and some would say theyre inciting violence against ethnic russian friday ukraine and then reserve the right to protect their countrymen as they call it, across the border in eastern ukraine, and so the idea that they have now -- whether its 10,000 or tens of thousands of troops and armored vehicles right on the bored, from eastern ukraine very troubling. >> and talk...

You know, there are signs the russians are stirring up unrest in the east. will has been talk of people being bust acrokr -- bussed acr board near russia. he talks how he may have to defend ukrainians along the border. there are people that would rye to stir up violence that would give putin a pretext to send in a response. we have to protect the russians in ukraine from these mobs trying to beat them up. theres concern that there are goons that are coming across the boarder to stir things up an...

Government in kiev. and how is this going to go? >> when they become part of russia and theyve thought they are ukrainians. >> what i worry about is provocations. you could have some muslim tatars do some kind of attack or have an attack thats blamed on this community then you have a pretext for russia to advance further to take further steps. you could see russian orthodox churches, for example, being attacked in the east because theyre so split in that same blue/green map, there is the ukraini...