On the ground in ukraine. We will open up our phones to you in the first 45 minutes. We want to get your thoughts and your reactions. Thinkt to know what you the u. S. Response should be to that vote. Our phone lines are open, democrats can call republicans you can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages, on twitter, facebook, or. Mail us at journal cspan. Org a very good monday morning to you. I want to take you to the u. S. And around the world. Heres the front page of the New York Times today sanctions on the horizon. Theront page of Washington Post the front page of the hartford current and onto the front page of the pittsburgh postgazette finally the front page of usa today this morning. Stories leading most every u. S. Paper around the country. Bring you the latest according to the wire result on that vote to secede in crimea. The ap noting the chromium election chief says 90 of voters support joining russia in the final vote results. That is the latest according to the wire services. We want to go on the ground in tf. In kiev. Andrew kramer joins us now. Thank you. Guest thank you. Host what is the latest in kiev . What is the reaction to this new government in the vote yesterday . Guest the government had a Cabinet Meeting this morning. They announced additional the military and partial globalization of the army. It is not entirely clear. So there is this sense there is not a whole lot the ukranian government can do. Brusselsare focused on where there is a meeting of ministers about sanctions. There is a lot of guess about what the u. S. Plans to do. Host another headline from one of the papers this morning thoughts in ukraine about the possibility of further efforts in parts of Eastern Ukraine . Guest people are worried. Its a very somber mood. People in Eastern Ukraine, russian speakers, who may embrace russia and follow the crimean scenario. In the capital and certainly in western ukraine there is deep concern about what russia intends to do next. Host what do we know about the russian reaction so far . Hast president putin announced he will give a speech in the Upper Chamber of russian the federation council, tomorrow. That is being interpreted as the likely point of that speech will be the exceptions of crimea into the russian federation, annexation. We dont know exactly what will be said. Russia seems to be moving quickly with the plans to annex the peninsula. T take us to the reu. S. To the u. S. Reaction. What is the latest from john kerry . Havent seen the very latest statements. Think the debate really hinges on how deep the sanctions will go and which personalities will be targeted. From what i understand there are several possible stations to the sanctions. After secondary figures first. I heard from a u. S. Senator there is consideration of sanctioning Russian Chemical companies and banks, which would essentially isolate russia economically. Host you mentioned one of the senators you talked to on the subject, we are reading tweets from members of congress and talking about reactions on their twitter pages. Here is senator Chuck Grassley that is senator grassley on his own twitter page. Andrew kramer, you are in tf. You are in kiev. In the the reaction streets . What is the mood about the new government in the streets of kiev . Guest there is still quite a bit of turmoil here. Here, thee Square Center of the uprising against yanukovych. The socalled defenders of the be dressed in. Uite crazy outfits they are now wearing military uniforms. There is a Recruitment Center for the new National Guard in the square. Air is a militarization and there is a militarization of this movement and of the country in general. It was a very shortlived celebration of victory to a test of how patriotic ukraine can be. Host is there any resolution after this vote yesterday as to what happens to ukrainian troops who are in crimea . Mostlyroops have been surrounded at their bases in crimea. With i was at a briefing the defense minister here, the Ukrainian Defense minister. They said they negotiated a truce until march 21 with the fleet commanders and Russian Ministry of defense. Ukrainians would be allowed to resupply the bases and there would not be further attempts to overrun them. No shots have been fired. They have been occupied by these unidentified soldiers. There is a truce now until the 21st of march. Andrew kramer is a reporter with the New York Times. We appreciate you joining us on the phone from kiev. You very much. If theres one thing i could add any likely u. S. Or european sanctions part of the response of russia will likely be here in ukraine and in russia. The brunt of that response will seen in areas of ukraine that may become targets of military advancement. Host thank you so much for joining us this morning. And we are talking with our viewers. We want to hear your thoughts and your take on what the u. S. Reaction should be on this vote yesterday. Conversation is already happening on our facebook page. If you want to join our conversation there, facebook. Com cspan. We are taking your thoughts and comments all morning. Our phone lines are open. We will start with top coming in calling in from florida bob calling in from florida. Ive known a lot of ukrainians for 30 or 40 years. Ofse people are very proud their country. That would be like somebody coming into america saying, hey dont you want to become a part of russia . Give me a break. Far as the World Population we lost him. 97 in favor of leaving ukraine. A little more on voter reactions , this is from the Washington Post story we want to hear your thoughts and comments. We will go to georgia and North Carolina on our line for independents. Caller its just really hard to that arethe voices coming out of this world. Hypocritical determine their own fate. We did the same thing in coso though. We did the same thing in south sudan. Just think about it. What if the shoe was on the other foot . What at the same thing happened in mexico . He moved in and a bunch of we moved in and a bunch of countries the only people that are going to profit from this are the bankers. With instability they get to play with money. Prices thatfuel have gone up in the last two weeks. Three months ago when they started jacking up the fuel prices it was because of syria. When was the last time we heard anything about syria on the news . Now it is the ukraine. Here is senator john mccain, who was on cnn cost state of the union on cnn state of the union. [video clip] term you cant say there is anything but a that does not mean we somehow you can have a major part of a country that you yourself signed off in an agreement. They guarantee the integrity guarantee the territorial integrity of it. Have a wonderful ambassador representing the United States in the ukraine. Russia,he vote to join he is saying 80 . It is a done deal. Totalshose vote announced this morning. Officials in crimea putting it upwards to 97 came out to vote in favor of seceding from ukraine. John mccain talking about some of the military issues involved. Here is a story from the wall street journal that story also has a map above it. Showing some of the areas near Eastern Ukraine where Russian Troops are conducting maneuvers in several of the states nearby. About the thousand Russian Troops in crimea. Troopst 20,000 russian in crimea. We go back to the phone lines, what is your response to what happened in the past 24 hours . A shamei think it is and our president really screwed up. He doesnt care. A i wonder what the remarks are i wonder what the remarks are off mike. Are offmic thatnk it is a disgrace the president of the United States is letting this happen. What should he be doing here . How would you like to see him respond . Going with the military. Not with boots on the ground but with missiles. Us thatd explain to there will be a boomerang effect. I think it is terrible. Spine. As no he should not be the president. I think we lost marianne there. Editorial inead todays the wall street journal the wall street journal on what happened in the ukraine the Editorial Board of the wall street journal. On ouro to john waiting line for republicans in alexandria, virginia. Caller i would like to comment on why ukraine is important for u. S. Interest and why it is important we do something regarding this issue. Oil resources the that exist, namely in turkmenistan and kaz extend, on the western side of the caspian. There are pipelines that go through there. This pipeline goes down to turkey and out into the mediterranean. It is very much in u. S. And russian interest to get that pipeline to cut straight to west street west through georgia. Straight west through georgia. That is important because what it allows us to do is die ersify and weekend and we get the russian monopoly. And weaken the russian monopoly. Host do you think the Obama Administration is doing enough to explain a what you are talking about to explain what you are talking about . Caller i dont blame the administration. I more so blamed the media. I think the administration should have that conversation that i dont know of that message would be very well accepted. Have that conversation but i dont know if that conversation would be very well accepted. The i would like to make i would like to make another point. Nato is dead. Of that is a discussion that has been going on over the past seven years. Behink our policy should now to extend nato eastward and take efforts to get the ukraine into nato. Once we are able to do that we can reignite this transit lan take relationship this transatlantic relationship. Now we really have found a reason to do that. Alexandria,rom virginia this morning with his thoughts. On our twitter page ons go to frederick waiting our line for democrats in pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller i agree with the last tweeter. America has no right to talk the ukraine in because look at what the republicans are doing with the Voter Suppression here in america. These are the worst hypocrites in the world. That is my comments. Host that is frederick calling in from pennsylvania. We talked to a New York Times reporter earlier in the show. Is on obamas policy being put to the test in ukraine. He writes that story goes on to the jump sge, quoting one of mr. Obama former Senior National security aides. An analysis piece in todays New York Times. We want to show you a bit from white house Senior Adviser dan sundays he was on meet the press. He gave a bit of his reaction before the vote happened yesterday. [video clip] if crimea votes to become part of russia, air is still a concern that there may be an attempt to move into Eastern Ukraine, a be militarily move into the ukraine further. Do you think that will happen . This referendum is in violation of international law. The United States is not going to recognize it. We are working with our partners around the world to marshal forces against the russians and put pressure on that in the form of sanctions. The president is signing an executive order to give the authority to do this. You can expect sanctions in the coming days. Host the senior white house adviser going on one of the sunday shows yesterday, talking about what the u. S. Is doing. We want to hear your thoughts and what you think about some of the issues that he brought up. Randy is waiting in fort worth, texas. The morning to you. Good morning to you. Caller nobody is talking about the treaty. During the Clinton Administration there was a treaty with the ukraine. The treaty was to dismantle their military. Nobody is talking about that. During the Obama Administration in 2009 president obama signed a treaty to protect the ukraine. Host which treaty are you talking about . And what do you think about the ukrainian troops that are on the russian bases in and is supportively surrounded by Russian Troops he . Have the military in ukraine, they cannot fly aircrafts, they cannot take the navy out to protect their ports. Russia has them surrounded. They dont have the military. President obama signed that treaty in 2009 saying he would protect them. They have a small military, not enough to defend the russians. Line from is on the washington. Caller i just wanted to talk about the first thing that came out of the republicans mouths, this isand others the reason we have to open the Keystone Pipeline as fast as we can. All the Keystone Pipeline is for is export and they cant get the natural gas out of the ground and exported enough export it fast enough. Building the Keystone Pipeline is obviously a process that would take a while if they finished the full pipeline. Do you think that would help the situation right now or do you mean sending a message with approving the pipeline . Is the corporations that find another reason to get that oil out of canada and ship wont have any effect in lowering our field prices here our fuel prices here. They can get the natural gas out of our ground and sell it overseas as fast as they can. The canadians dont want the pipeline going through. An article in National Geographic in august of 2010. Approach was taking the pipeline from alberta to bc and the canadians would not let them run their own oil through their own pipeline. They have the trains running it. They are taking to heart out of sand and trying to ship it they are digging tar out of sand and trying to ship it. They have to mix the tar with something and it looks like they are making it into napalm and shipping it. Calling in from washington. A few more comments from our facebook page. You can follow the conversation there on our twitter page as well. Later in the show we are going to be talking about one of the upcoming deadlines for enrollment for coverage of this year under the Affordable Care act. A story on that subject from the hill newspaper a story that was out yesterday evening. Each day the bracket will be up did it based on votes from online users. It is part of an ongoing attempt to reach young consumers where they are. We are going to be talking about that deadline with a reporter from politico newspaper later in the show today. Also noting it is primary season. From the newy york times on that topic we will give you a preview of not just the governors race but some of the other races as well. We have 15 minutes left to discuss this vote on crimea yesterday. Lets go to diana waiting in longview, texas. Good morning. We want to hear your take on that vote in crimea. I have been watching this since the beginning when the soldiers invaded. There were a few soldiers at first and we did not know who they were. Ukrainians understand i am not sure this is true. They do not have weapons. Everybody was confused who it was. All of a sudden we had this plane crash. So we dont hear anything about what was happening to russia, which is a little more porton. Although a plane crash is very tragic. Little more important. Although a plane crash is very tragic. It reminded me of vietnam. We want to know if russians are invading hasnto you think there been enough Media Attention on this . That it has been leading a lot of the vote yesterday. It has been leading a lot of the papers since yesterday. Caller [laughter] host i think we lost her there. We will go to bill. Caller they are a nation and they have their own way of deciding things. Therea r are treaties. To getcannot afford into a military conflict iwtwith russia. We are trying to get out of the middle east, we have Economic Issues we are trying to deal with. For those of you who think we if youover there put the foot in the door and keep the door open somebody will pull away. We cannot let things escalate. Leave thingsould alone for now and see how it turns out. We need to make sure things dont escalate. Dont let russians advance any further in europe. We showed you republican senator john mccain on cnn and toss state on cnns state of the union. Chris murphy was on abcs this week. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] putin moves further in the Eastern Ukraine, is there anything we can really do to prevent that . I dont think there is anything we can do militarily. Tos is a longerterm effort build up the ukrainian the military. On monday we announced with the European Union a crippling set going after russian business entities. I think that sends a strong message to putin. Think anyone believes i dont think he believed the u. S. Would take a chunk out of his economy. That gives us a chance to change the calculus in moscow. Will sanctions be enough . Luxe we have to wait for european friends to tell us they are willing to move forward. There is no doubt that if you cut off russian gas it will hurt. Theres no doubt that if you freeze russian assets in places like germany and great rich and it will hurt them. This is a threat and Great Britain it will hurt them. This is a threat to the territorial integrity of europe. Host if you want to follow on our twitter page it is cspanwj. Pablo waiting in fort lauderdale, florida on our line for independents. Caller thank you for taking my call. Explain something we may not be very aware of. Kremlin has been an extension is force for years an extensionist force for years. Teheare clearly geopolitical enemy of us. Allowing them to incorporate ukraine is giving them a country of 150 Million People, which will