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Definitely coming back and that would be a step so dramatic and bring us into a much closer possibility of u.s.-russian direct military conflict. we would have a proxy conflict in ukraine, but we havent seen anything like that in decades so that would be the exclamation point that our history is returned. >> steve clemens, ann gearen, thanks to both of you. we are awaiting for the news conference to begin in geneva, secretary of state kerry and john ashton will get a sense of where the talks hav...

We want to head out to the white house. jim, what do you know so far? >> so far all we can tell is you that the press secretary said about an hour ago during the press briefing. that call was going to occur during ta time period. we believe the two presidents had spoken. i had a chance to ask about this comment that the president made earlier this week. he is not involved in an international chess game with vladimir putin over the ukraine. he said that is not the case and its not a tug of war an...

It was clear from the beginning in afghanistan, in iraq, that these were potential violent sectarian civil wars, on top of which you had stakeholders in the region willing to engage in proxy conflict. we knew that syria would be a rubiks cube problem. and those senators this week continue to advocate for simple binary responses in a cauldron of horrible problems that just defy simple explanation. i think that the way kim described it, and the early warnings on what would happen, because i do dis...

Vladimir putin in meetings tomorrow. and thats going to be a potential game-changer. but its unlikely, according to most of the arab sources i have, that putin is going to do anything different. >> youre absolutely right. you can almost draw a straight line from the paralysis of the international community to what is happening on the ground. the fact that both russia and china have consistently blocked measures at the united nations for stronger international measures against the syrian presiden...

Region if the international community doesnt work together. listen. >> we will likely be getting in a situation where syria is experiencing sectarian civil war that could spill beyond its borders and destabilize the region and could involve other countries in the kind of proxy conflict that can be damaging not just to the region but to the world. >>jonathan: there is no doubt on that. the proxy conflict is playing out in this verbal cold war style battle between the united states and russia. >>s...

president obama telephones mitt romney, congratulates him for going over the top in the republican delegate count and over the top comments with supporter donald trump has created a distraction. youve heard trump question the birthplace in "the situation room," now romney is trying to move on. heres our national political correspondent, jim acosta. >> wolf, mitt romney has left las vegas, but donald trump is refusing to leave the campaign stage. >> americans are tired of being tired. >...

Destabilized the governments, we might have a little room to do what they feel they need to do for their security as unpleasant it is. >> the lesson they are drawing is if you are a friend to the united states as in egypt or tunisia, you fall. if you are an enemy of the united states such as iran or libya, you survive as long as you are ruthless enough in putting down unrest. >> i think it is exactly right. th is an disiement of the -- an indictment of the leadership. the other important issue i...

Islamic state forced into what looks like full scale retreat another longer term conflict is intensifying with this man saudi arabias ambassador young crown prince mohammed bin sound man confronting the other big power in the region that is of course in the two countries are already locked in a proxy conflict thats impacting lebanon and is devastatingly yemen but now the fear is that the two strands of islam they represent sunni and shia could be drawn into a greater conflagration so our questio...

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