be paid, especially if it goes beyond the crimea. you really need cooperation for that out of europe to get from everything i ve heard from angela merkel she has softened but they have so many ties with energy and money, and then the britts, we know they don t want to mess up the london stock exchange. i don t know how you get everybody together on this. well, the first part of that i think leadership. they haven t really had the united states pushing that hard, and i think if we were, we would get a lot of support from the czechs and the pols and others in europe. probably the french. so i think that you re right, it s going to be a struggle, but we re going to lose unless we re really out front. there s no substitute for american leadership here. did he have this all planned out, putin? well, you know, used to work for senator jackson, and he used used to si the russians were like a hotel burglar. the go down the hall and try all the doors until they find one open. i don t
united nations security council is meeting here in new york right now to discuss the crisis in ukraine as moscow continues to tighten its grip on crimea. a ukrainian television station reports a group of ten unidentified gunmen fired into the air while storming a ukrainian navy post in southern crimea. nobody got hurt and the gunmen demanded trucks from the base. a russian news agency reports pro russian troops took over a hospital and a military hospital and an army missile base in crimea. this was the scene earlier outside the headquarters of the crimean television station. protesters on whether crimea should plate ukraine split from ukraine and join russia. the white house says ukraine s prime minister will meet with
bring georgia and moldova, into nato and do it quickly. all eyes will be on sunday residents referendum in crimea whether to breck away frommian jane and join russia officially. let s bring in elliott abrams, a deputy national security advice you re are in former george w. bush. nice to see you, sir. crimea lost. anything anybody can do? not in the short run. the question i think is, what price does russia pay? i think people in crimea may come back to ukraine. that and that vote on sunday is meaningless. it s not a free vote. nobody is allowed to speak up against the russians and say, vote no. but what we really need to concentrate on is making putin pay a real price for this. the concern now i was there last week.