wednesdaych russia continues its bold defiance by reenforcing its troops in crimea and ignoring u.s. warnings about potential sanctions. a fox news contributor has said the president need to get tougher. obama s whole theory of international relations was, if i m nice to iran, if i offer them all kind of goodies, if i m nice to the north koreans, if i m nice to any adversaries anywhere, i ll give them an open hand, remember? open hand, more respect for the muslims. he wanted to show the russians he was willing to bury the hatchet on all the past and then he wanted cooperation in other areas. putin looks at this guy and says i m dealing with an ad less sent. this is a community organizer. he doesn t understand how the world works. what s next, could moscow s reach expand to south ukraine and other former soviet union states, if so, how do we stop
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this crisis, that can put an end to this crisis. they re saying the government in kiev are not willing to let crimea go. that that will not happen. but whether or not they could stop that is very much an open question. while they re hoping for diplomacy and looking to the west for some sort of diplomatic solution, they re also calling up their reserves, reserve forces. i was out in the square behind me today, earlier, it s now covered in fog so you can t really see it as darkness has come, a lot of people there giving their names to authorities, saying they willing to fight. young men, old men, well beyond military age saying they are willing to do whatever is necessary in order to keep ukraine unified. that s the message here that many people have. whether or not that can happen, though, a lot is going to depend on what vladimir putin decides to do next, wolf. as you said, they are all over crimea. the big concern many people have here is whether or not russian forces might actually g
president obama spent the weekend working the phones. he spoke with putin for 90 minutes on saturday. on sunday, he spent the day reaching out to u.s. allies for support on ukraine. let s bring in our senior white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, the white house says it won t be sending a presidential delegation to the paralympic games in sochi, russia that, are about to begin. is this more boy costs? it looks like the g-8 summit in june the u.s. was planning on participating in, that may be gone, as well. reporter: that s right. and you heard secretary of state john kerry say, wolf, it may become the g-7. that russia may be expelled. want to pick up on something you were talking about with anderson cooper about that alleged ultimatum from russia to ukrainian forces about crimea. there is a state department conference call going on right now, wolf, and a state department spokeswoman, jen psaki, said they don t have any independent confirmation that
installations to surrender, and gave a specific time of before dawn tomorrow morning, or else, quote, those bases would be stormed. now that did create a storm of criticism, certainly on social media, certainly in the press on cable networks and 24-hour networks. and in the last couple hours, the russians or the people who are head of the black sea fleet, and apparently also the russian defense ministry, has said actually that s not true. there s no ultimatum. so a little bit of breathing room there. and they called it utter rubbish. let s hope that s the occasion. christiane, thanks very much. we re going to walk you through a map of the region around russia and ukraine. and show you why crimea is so critical and how it matters to the united states. i m beth. and i m michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it s a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online