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Measures there. cnns barbara starr is standing by at the pentagon and anderson cooper is in kiev. lets bring in with our national security correspondent jim sciutto. jim? >> wolf, officials are attempting to de-escalate the crisis and avoiding any moves that may further inflame the situation. does russia expand its military intervention or does it pull back? on the ground in ukraine, theres a volatile mix of armed forces and emotions, which we saw flair up today. today in crimea, russian and ukr...

>> im taller than you, dana. >> i told people that this weekend. kimberly, youre next. >> thanks so much. a lot of people on twitter were saying poor leo because hes been nominated, he hasnt won. >> leo who? >> dicaprio. >> best performance of his lifetime in wolf of wall street. lost out to matthew mcconaughey. was the critics favorite for this year, but leo also lost out, he got nominated for blood diamond, and you remember the last king of scotland, forest whittaker got it for that one, and h...

President. >> what makes me even more suspect of the criticism of president obama is there doesnt seem to be any real difference here between what republicans want the president to do and what he is actually doing. its easy to just say its obamas fault but history tells us otherwise and these political attacks mask the fortunate fact that today there is pretty solid bipartisan agreement on what to do next. >> you know, i think senator murphy is right here. you can argue for the next year over wh...

Here. we have to be the more mature party. the nato countries looking at the reckless aggressive behavior of putin and weve got to be smarter in using our economic and political leverage against them. so thats what the response is going to be, wolf, its not going to be military. but the key here is that we have to be unified particularly between chancellor merkel of germany and president obama and it does look like washington and berlin are on different wave lengths and weve got to narrow those ...

A pain now? mitt romney did. >> a few months ago when you were asked the biggest political threat, you said russia, not al qaeda, in the 1980s, now calling for the foreign policy, because the cold war has been over for 20 years. >> i have clear eyes on this. im not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to russia or mr. putin. >> reporter: today mr. obama was careful not to attack putin personally, instead he used a legal argument for the behavior, saying putin seems to have a differen...

Therefore, you know, just dont pay any attention. he does have people in crimea, there are people in the eastern parts of ukraine who share some of these beliefs. not to mention, people in russia itself. so although the west and people in the states right now may say that this is bogus, et cetera, there are some people who share his beliefs. so i think to our peril we just write him off as crazy. >> has putin changed much over the years? >> i think he has. i think hes more conservative. i think ...

But not all of the troops have gone back to their bases. so there is plenty of russian troops out and about with their equipment, with their weapons. before they all go back to base, will putin order them to cross the border. thats why the next two days are so important. thats why we are told, you are seeing this heavy international, diplomatic push, led by the united states, trying to give vladimir putin that diplomatic off-ramp from this crisis in the next two to three days, wolf. >> lets see ...

They all want some version of these sanctions and the problem that the president has, ironically, and i cant believe im saying this, is not the united states congress but the problem hes got is in europe. europe is turning to the president. the injugerm mans are saying, wa minute, you dont get your natural gas from russia the way we do. so weve got the problem. the fight that could come in congress is that what some republicans are now saying, wolf, if lift all of the restrictions on sending tha...

Lumping all the pro ukrainians -- d at least we got that straight. because wolf, were in "the situation room," man. >> put it on the air and call it the war room. ♪ [ male announcer ] she wont remember this, being carried in your arms. but after a day spent in the caribbean exploring mayan ruins and playing pirates with you in secret coves, she wont exactly be short on memories.

Pistorius has pleaded not guilty to murder. he said he mistook steenkamp for a burglar. more than 2800 flights have been canceled today because of a light winter storm dumping snow on the mid-atlantic area including right here in washington, d.c. as well as in baltimore and philadelphia. the federal government was closed for business today here in washington as heavy snow fell overnight and through much of the day throughout the d.c. area creating dangerous roads and power outages. remember, y...