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Terms of its pretext. the president is currently considering all options. theyre all on the table. >> republicans, meanwhile, wasted no time in using the crisis to take pot shots at the president. >> we have a weakened, indecisive president. president obama needs had to something. >> the international community struggled over how to respond. >> they have been meeting at the brussels headquarters but with no credible military response available, there were just warnings. >> angela merkel spoke to...

Actions that putin will understand and you know, just as he did in georgia, which of course was a whole different set of circumstances the ukrainians have given no real challenge to him as with georgia. but he used the same pretext and ended up with -- and i can see that playing out here again unless the west has a very decisive set of actions. >> great having you on. senator bob menendez, thank you so much. >> coming up, were going to talk about netanyahus line in the sand with jeffrey goldberg...

Tried to get a couple of city councils to actually pass something asking for russians to come in. lo and behold, those councils did the opposite. they said, we dont want russia to come in. we want our independence. i think it is clear that russia has been working hard to create a pretext for being able to invade further. russia has talked about russian-speaking minority that are under siege. they are not. this government has acted remarkably responsibly by urging total calm and not wanting any p...

Also, its really the sequence of events of the russian government perceiving a threat to russian speakers, to russian citizens on the ground, seeing a pretext there in terms of georgian action against people who were basically threatening georgian interests and then the russians moving in, in defense of their interests and of their compatriots or citizens on the ground. so were in a very similar situation here. the one big difference is that they were part of the republic of georgia and were alw...

Troops. and blamed the crisis on the united states. >> he denied there were troops in crimea? >> yes, he did. >> he blamed this on the president the united states. >> kerry paying tribute to the the victims gunned down by snipers and said the only threat here is russia invading ukraine further and accuses the russians of creating a pretext to do that. as a billion dollar loan package for ukraine and lots of talk in the united states and europe about what sanctions might be drawn up in order to p...

Story of how the bush administration sold the war to the american people based on a pretext, based on evidence that in many cases was known inside the government to be false. that documentary, hubris, answered the question of how, how that war was sold to the american people. but there remains the question of why. what was behind that public case for war? if what they were telling us was false, why did they really think we needed to go to war? if the case made to the public was a false case, wha...

>> you just dont in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion boy invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext. >> absolutely true and something on which the united states has absolutely no leg to stand on after we did exactly that same thing famously and on a much larger scale. russia has in fact invaded a part of ukraine on the completely trumped-up false pretext that theres some threat to russian speakers there, and russia is only protecting them. its total bull pucky, tota...

In kharkov, ukraines second city. ive been watching russian troops here today and they are stationed outside ukrainian bases trying to take those bases. theres a standoff. no shots have been fired. no sign of confrontation but at the moment it doesnt look like the russian troops are approaching beyond crimea and into eastern ukraine. that would take this to a whole different plain. the ambassador talking about check slow vak yan, and vladimir putin achieved all of this without a shot being fired...

A pretext to step up its military intervention as it is right now. when i asked her, so if that is happening and she also said were trying not to give russia any more pretext but russia is continuing in this regard, i said to her what about this order thats gone out calling all able bodied men in ukraine to report for military training and its starting today. she said look if they take crimea and this becomes a military confrontation then she said ukrainians will die to preserve the sanctity and...

Stage. there could even be ultimately asset freezes, visa bans, there could be certainly disruption of any of the normal trade routine. and there could be business drawback on investment in the country. the oyfruble is already feeline impact of this and going down. the reason for this, david, is because you just dont invade another country on phony pretexts in order to assert your interests. there are ways -- there are ways to deal with this, and president putin knows that. president obama yest...