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Assaults and threats that nobody else can find, clearly a pretext, and essentially an effort to upend is post cold war era here on viability of borders on meeting the arrangements put in place including the protection of ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity at the end of the cold war. this is a really important moment for the united states to lead. >> mike rogers, chairman of house intelligence committee, says he wants a full-scale review now of intelligence because he says there was ...

>> lets get right to the ukraine. secretary of state john kerry is set to meet with his russian counterpart today to try and talk through mounting tensions in ukraine. yesterday, secretary kerry visited kiev, bringing with him prayers for slain protesters and a $1 billion aid package. he paid tribute to the fallen at memorials on the streets. kerry also responded to russian president vladimir putin perplexing news conference when which putin said military force remained an option, but claimed no...

>> he denied there were any troops occupying crimea. >> he really denied there were troops into crimea? >> yes, he did. >> its clear russia has been working hard to create a pretext for being able to invade further. so today in another part of this country, were in a new phase of the struggle for freedom and the united states reaffirms our commitment to ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity. according to international law. condemn the russian federations act of aggression and we have th...

Fallen on the street. claiming no russian soldiers were occupying crimea. >> he denied that there were any russian troops in crimea, occupying crimea. >> he really denied there were troops in crimea? >> yes, he did. >> i think that it is clear that russia has been working hard to create a pretext for being able to invade further. >> trying to give putin room to save face and back off. >> there is a strong belief that russias action is violating international law. president putin seems to have a ...

Department of state, and some have said this is her trying to say, you know, i knew he was a bad guy, i didnt trust him, but at the same time i was dealing with mthe other, but this is he trying to distance herself maybe not from the obama administration, although i heard one say that, but from the criticism that the obama administration has been naive that she was naive in that reset e. this is her sort of saying no, i know full well the threat that putin really has and does make. >> and to be ...

Direct conversation with sergei lavrov today that makes you believe that russia is no longer creating a pretext for further invasion? and did you hear anything that would assure you, make you rethink the u.s. threats to put sanctions on russia? that threat seems to have been weakened by european reluctance. >> i dont think its been weakened at all by what you call european reluctance. the conversations i had today with the foreign minister of germany, the foreign minister of france, foreign mini...

Kerry toured independence square, the site of so much bloodshed just last month and paid his respects at shrine for those killed in the protests. after meeting with ukraines new leaders he turned to rush why. >> it is clear that russia has been working hard to create a pretext for being able to invade further. russias talked about russian speaking minority citizens under siege. theyre not. >> while the u.s. is preparing sanctions, kerry made clear a military option is not on the table. >> presid...

Condemnation of what putin and russia has have done in crimea and ukraine. and this may be one of the costs of this. >> thats a pretty serious cost if that effort to destroy syrias chemical weapons stockpile, which was so important obviously to the region and the world, all of a sudden thats been put on hold because the u.s. and russia are no longer going to cooperate militarily? >> i think ultimately we can get back to that. russia has a lot at stake in that agreement in terms of destroying the...

You auto craukrainian to end an international tug of war. on the streets of kiev, americas top diplomat was greeted like a hero. >> dont give up ukraine. >> reporter: a symbol of u.s. solidarity in the face of cold war style russian intimidation. secretary of state john kerry paid tribute to ukrainian activists killed in last months revolution. then met with leaders of the new pro-western government. from moscow russian president vladimir putin called the new ukrainian regime illegitimate and li...

By an scestry, hitler kept sayi, i have to go and protect my people. another person who was an editor of a small group of newspapers who happened to be at this event said she was very quickly to say, followed that up by saying that there is obviously an attempt by the obama administration for a peaceful resolution. she tried to clean up her remarks at the end. you invoke hitler and nazi germany, you know, john, it is sort of the third rail of rhetoric. you are going to get a ton of intention for...