ukraine? will any action be taken? i think there is to have to be more action? what is it going to have to be. furse economic sanctions again the russian country. did you hear what the you said said on friday? i ll put more sanctions on russia and i m paraphrasing it somewhat so the rest of the world doesn t feel it so much? if president putin knows you ll only go so far? that won t wore. there has to be pain inflicted here. that includes western europe biting the bullet. for instance, i think the dutch will be more willing to see us do something. the problem is germany. they re getting 40% of the energy from putin. he can turn off the spigot, and they re freezing next winter. did we say something about this five months ago? yes, you did.
those were russian troops. so it may be a matter of waiting until they eventually come around to acknowledging what the rest of the world has concluded which is that some of these people are russian soldiers in some fashion, working in tandem with local russian speakers in eastern ukraine. and the pictures do present a very compelling thing, the face its and bushy beards look familiar from 2008. so do the adornments on the uniforms. and so do the weaponry which is often things only russian military has issued to it. so, putin says what he said, but the truth is the rest of the world doesn t believe him. anne, we started this segment talked about the pivot to asia. and that s obviously going to come under much focus later on in the week when the president is actually in asia. philip ewing in politico sort of suggested that the pivot to asia that we ve been discussing for years now is sort of already
coordination is always going to be difficult. the malaysians have kept things very close to the vest. even though they have partners in this like australia and the united states. but they have kept things close to the vest for whatever reason. but we have to remember that here in the united states, we expect everybody to investigate accidents like we do as far as the ntsb. the rest of the world doesn t work like that. you have to remember that they re very reluctant to release information because that s the way their protocols and procedures have been established. so you have to take things a little bit with a grain of salt. but when it comes to these activities, there has to be a good level of coordination. i think the australians have stepped up and tried to take that lead just to relieve the malaysians of that burden. absolutely. you re talking about that difficulty of cooperation, of coordination. as luke said, today australia has deployed a flying air traffic controller. it soun
giving a lot of information, the rest of the world doesn t do that, in this case, i know at the beginning of the investigation, they were cautious, they were really matching their words to make sure they were doing the right things, now, i think that because the eyes of the world are on them, every time they say something, they ve been scrutinized. they have multinational people participating. the chinese are upset about the process now as are others. we don t know this fundamental question. can we show the radius? that is what s heart sinking about this situation. it s just a massive amount of area to be covered for this flight at this point. if they don t know anything about its trajectory at the time it possibly went down, it seems like that s a hopeless amount of space to search. it is. it is a daunting process. and now with the chinese providing this image, all of a sudden they have to make a decision, do they take the assets they were going to use to move to the new search ar
we were giving press conferences, the ntsb was, giving a lot of information, the rest of the world doesn t do that, in this case, i know at the beginning of the investigation, they were cautious, they were really matching their words to make sure they were doing the right things, now, i think that because the eyes of the world are on them, every time they say something, they ve been scrutinized. they have multinational people participating. the chinese are upset about the process now as are others. we don t know this fundamental question. can we show the radius? that is what s heart sinking about this situation. it s just a massive amount of area to be covered for this flight at this point. if they don t know anything about its trajectory at the time it possibly went down, it seems like that s a hopeless amount of space to search. it is. it is a daunting process. and now with the chinese providing this image, all of a sudden they have to make a decision, do they take the assets the