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Support, certainly from journalists, glen greenwald. he is the journalist that broke the story on edward snowden and the nsa spying claims. i want to read a quote that he put up, which is, abbey martin, remarkably demonstrated what journalist independence means by ending her program with a clever and unapologetic denunciation of the russian action in ukraine. i can tell you that the people here certainly would not agree with what abbey martin said. im outside the government building. the russian...

At war for the last 13 years. as we end our second war, our sec w second war of the last decade, our longest ever. this budget adapts to new realities and physical restraints while preparing for the future. >> the defense secretary, chuck hagel, now outlining the presidents new budget for the department of defense. his own budget was released last week. he is making the case and also speaking out about the crisis in ukraine. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world...

Between nato and the russian alliance and its the first public contact between the two groups since russian forces moved into the crimean peninsula last week. we go to brussels for the site of todays meeting. who called for this meeting, specifically? >> reporter: hi, jake. the meeting was called for by nato secretary-general. its a good sign russia has agreed to sit down with all 28 nato ambassadors. meeting happening in a couple of hours from now. very much a part of natos three track approach...

That the u.s. and other countries are trying to give to russia to address their concerns that they acknowledge are legitimate in ukraine, they acknowledge russia has a lot of interests particularly in the crimea. what they want is for russia to encourage international monday fors into crimea, into eastern ukraine to check out whats going on and that could be the basis for talks. the french, the uk, u.s. hoping to get sergei lavrov the russian foreign minister and ukrainian foreign minister in th...

Clinton would make that comparison but what are you getting? what kind of reaction? >> reporter: right now, im trying to get some reaction from her camp. specifically, there is none. they are not commenting. if you invoke nazi germany and adolf hitler, it is like the third rail of rhetoric. it gets so much attention. whatever hillary clintons opinions are, about putin, this sort of increases the volume, if you will. we heard her last week, in florida, not on camera but talking about putin. this ...

They will see theres no justification for military action. but so far theres no sign russia is looking to take a hard turn on to this off-ramp. we heard from vladimir putin wred who said he has experts looking at the idea. the russian foreign minister propped up another obstacle saying this is not an issue or question that russia can answer because were talking about ukrainian territory, ukrainian people must decide. the authorities must decide if they want to invite foreign powers on to their t...

Situati ways the situation is already out of control with what putin has done in crimea. this is what strategists and people in the pentagon are planning against to make sure if it does happen that way, we are prepared for it but i dont think it is likely. >> general, i want you to stand by. barbara. jim sciutto. i want to go to elise labbott. she is joining us from paris. there is a lot of diplomacy underway when we know the secretary of state has been in contact, at least, on the phone and pre...

For todays meeting the topic will be ukraine. on sunday nato issued a sharply worded statement condemning russias military aggression in the crimea. that was followed by another emergency meeting on tuesday. that time called for by poland which was feeling threatened by this ongoing situation out of that meeting, nato saying it was amping up its efforts to assess the situation. that sort of lays the scene or sets the scene for the meeting again happening in the next couple of hours. were expecti...

How much do you think that is real and accurate? >> reporter: well, i pressed the white house on this yesterday. i said what is the substance of this? what led the president to believe and white house officials to believe that the president was pausing? and the white house directed me to particular comments from putin yesterday where he said that the use of military force in the ukraine would be a very last resort. the fact is hes already used military force there. but speaking to other official...

Outright conflict in crimea you got a focus going back to the job situation on friday. we get that jobs report. 150,000 jobs expected to be added. it will be difficult to read it because of all this crazy weather weve had. so for the time being at least the path of least resistance is slightly higher now slightly lower. youll see a little bit of jockeying today as people try to find their footing. remember monday the dow was down 154 points. tuesday it rallied 228 points. thats an amazing two da...