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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 ukrainian orthodox and russian orthodox church. they dont always see eye to eye. you can see if a couple russian orts dox churches start burning down, thats...

Are they voting toward russia? many of these people are also ethnic russians and russian speakers. but there are these other divisions. crimea in particular has one. crimea has about 2 million people. about 30% of the population are muslim tatars and sympathetic toward the new revolutionary 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 kin...

Website, you still see them bragging in dick cheneys bio. check it out. i think the bigger issue is im not sure whether american res focusing on this crisis yet to be >> the media are. lets take a look at a couple of examples. >> when obama says and kerry did in kiev that this is a sign of weakness in that strength, youve got to wonder what cosmos our president are living in. >> there is this central awkwardness about the united states government trying to lead a response of international outrag...

Passports. you may hear behind me, people are celebrating the birth of a poet. now i repeat the pretext for russia bringing its troops into crimea was to protect speakers there against a quote, illegal government. but in fact, the propaganda and the militarization seems to be successful now at driving people apart. there have been protests in other parts of ukraine that have not been peaceful. protests called off all together because of tensions, and this, as you mentioned, the interim prime min...

And brushing asides warnings from the west. the crisis in ukraine it is causing. jennifer griffin has more from the pentagon. >> the pentagon is watching closely reports that armed troops sympathetic to russia just stormed the gates of the main air defense command centerrer in sevastopol. the pentagon estimates there are 20,000 russian troops in crima, im told there will be no change to u.s. military posture, however. the f-15 fighter jets sent to the baltics were to reassure nato allies. the pe...

The navy says they expect it to be in the black sea. >> theres been criticism the u.s. military was late and happened been strong enough to deter putin. whats the response to that? >> the prison would push back on that saying they are calibrating response carefully. certainly the response from the pentagon has been extremely measured. six days after the invasion before you saw u.s. military hardware change positions. half dozen f-15 fighter jets are not state-of-the-art stealth f-22s or f-35s th...

It was six days after the invasions before you saw any u.s. military hardware change positions. half dozen f 15 fighter jets are not the state-of-the-art stealth f 22s or f 35s that the pentagon spent so much money on. it is symbolic gesture, not to give putin the pretext to invade further or elsewhere. >> the administration efforts have been focused on deescalating and continuinging o he deescalate the crisis in ukraine. supporting ukrainian government with economic assistance. >> that was chuc...

Pretext for further aggression, for further inkurgss and further trouble making, particularly in the eastern part of this country, which he said at the moment was stable. he said that the government is in control there, though he said that they had information that russian battalions and soldiers were on the russian side of the border, andrea. >> thanks so much, ian williams in kiev today. a week of testimony in the oscar pistorius murder trial ended with one of the former girlfriends testifying...

Attempt to save the kids. de blasio is shutting it down without a pretext of argument. so, jim, have eva moscowwitz. >> big ten. >> senator, cpac today, obviously. youre in this great 10,000 foot above position to watch and comment. you clearly have the republicans in the same conundrum they have been in for years they have to play to the base and you have the ted cruz and marco rubio and ryans and they keep smashing their heads against the wall. what do you say to the true conservatives, how do...

Referendum as part of the solution? on your meeting with foreign minister lavrov, minister fab yus said hes forming this contact group and the russians might agree. did you talk about this with the minister and do you see this as a useful mechanism that might happen in the coming days? im wondering if you talked to him about the fact that he told you last week that the exercises that the russians were doing had nothing to do with ukraine. we now know that that was a pretext to mask the russian i...