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The ukraine continues to dig in today. welcome, even, to a brand new hour of "americas newsroom," im martha maccallum. bill: and im bill hemmer, russias foreign minister saying it will retaliate if new i sanctions are imposed against that country. the white house and european leaders have promised as much. this as new protests break out on both sides of the conflict yet again. martha: shepard smith is live in kiev. >> the announcement of sanctions that came in the late hours yesterday. they are ...

Hostages -- release the hostage, we sent jesse jackson -- >> thats not the issue here or, richard. >> wait a minute now, not to mention the fact that reverend has stood up for civil rights his entire life. hes defended the innocent, the abused -- >> ive got it, richard. you do this when i went to reverend barber -- >> dont mix apples and oranges, david. dont do that. bill: gentlemen, keep it on topic here, all right? hang on one moment. >> okay. my point -- bill: why, again, does this come up? y...

Martha: bradford, anna, thanks so much. bill: jenna lees coming up in a moment here. good morning. jenna: happy friday to you. brand new fox polling to tell you about, this time over obamacare and the midterm elections. also theres new military movements in the ukraine. i know youve been talking quite a bit about that. general scales is here on that. well get you caught up on the oscar pistorius murder trial, and the oldest crown known to man. i tried to let them give it to me for a fit, but the...

A serious charge. and when you do that, it should be something where there is evidence of true racist behavior. but this is jesse jackson who also three hours after he issued that tweet on his twitter stream -- and anyone can look it up -- said that name calling is not acceptable to someone who made a name -- who called him a name on twitter. its the hypocrisy. this is where we are. its not about the dialogue, its about the race baiters -- bill: david, you can call him rude, you can disagree wit...

Well hear from rick santorum who came close to winning the iowa caucasus in 2012. and senator rand paul won the straw poll and it round out the various personality types and approaches to conservativism that will be in play make up the primaries now and in 2. >in -- and in 2016. bill: who is the star? im interested to get your responses on this. talk to us on twitter the next few hours and well see what they say. martha: rand paul coming up so lots more to come there. he hoped to make a differen...

Accepted issas apology. issa may pursue contempt charges against lois lerner. bill: does the story go back to the central character, lois lerner? does this story fade? >> i think the issa controversy will fade because he has apologized. but then what will the house do? i think the focus will be on lerner. issa is in his last year as commute he chairman. he has to get something new out of this to get this going but lerner is not talking. thats why we may see contempt charges. bill: others would d...

Identical vehicles. the one on the left has the defense system and stays on the ground while the one on the rightfullies over. >> reporter: tim cotta is working with the army to further evaluate this new system. martha: interesting stuff, thank you very much, jonathon. bill: new unemployment numbers are out. while that 6.7% number does not tell half the story about our job situation. martha: well take you to the latest on the mounting crisis in ukraine. russia saying it will not accept the sanct...

They should be represented. for example, i believe in public property if there are a group of jewish people who want the menorah, a group of christians who want a cross, absolutely. respect nondiscrimination. but what theyre doing here is trying to wipe name and the voice and the face of god off of our american scene. bill: ive been down there, but it has not opened for the public. >> its a great place. bill: within a couple of months or so and maybe by this summer at the latest, and i think the...

Why does that even come up? >> well, i think the race card is a little far off on this one. what i will say is that the civility in the united states house of representatives has been totally lost, especially when it comes to the government reform committee. this seems to be a witch hunt by darrell issa that i think is just unbecoming of our united states congress totally speaking and not to mention the fact that this committee has already ruled that not only did they inappropriately target cons...

Headlines, well go back to shepard. in the meantime, have we moved to another stage of the standoff despite an hour-long phone call between president obama and vladimir putin late yesterday? lieutenant colonel ralph peters with me now, and good morning to you, colonel. >> good morning, bill. bill: is crimea lost already? >> yes, yes, its gone. vladimir putin does not have a reverse gear. and if you look at his history in office since his prime minister days in the late 90s, he has never backed d...