The latest development in ukraine as russia now recognizes crimea as a sovereign independent state. Putinscow, president obam will be addressing the parliament. Your reaction to obamas response. Are the sanctions enough . What should the u. S. Do next to th . Phone lines are. Ou can join us on twitter the question is posted on facebook. Or send us an email. The front page of the Washington Post is this headline. Europe hadd russia with sanctions. The International Crisis over ukraine as quitted sharply on monday as the u. S. And europe imposed sanctions on senior russian political and military figures. B boone signing a decree recognizing the ukrainian region of crimea as an independent state. Vladimir putin signing a decree. 97 of voters said they wanted to become a part of russia. In this ration said the vote was rigged and discounted it as a legal. Administration. What has become the most serious u. S. Russia confrontation in decades showed no sign of abating monday. This from the guardian newspaper. The russian reaction to all this. The reaction was derisive writes the guardian newspaper. Sanctions a joke. The deputy Prime Minister who was on that list of sanctions issued by the president we did some sort of prankster wrote the u. S. Presence degree. Putin will address the parliament today. Western Officials Say sanctions will not be adopted against putin because he is the head of state. We will continue to make clear to russia that these provocations will achieve nothing but to diminish its place in the world. The International Community will continue to stand together to oppose any violations of ukrainian sovereignty. Continued military intervention in ukraine will only deepen russias diplomatic isolation. Going forward, we can calibrate our response based on whether russia chooses to escalate or deescalate the situation. I believe there are still a path to resolve the situation diplomatically. In a way that addresses both the interests of russia and ukraine. That includes russia pulling its forces in crimea back to their bases and supporting Additional International monitors in ukraine and engage in dialogue with ukrainian government. Host the president yesterday from the reaping room. The Russian Deputy prime issued a second tweet. This is what is stated comrade barack obama, what should you do for those who neither have accounts nor property abroad . Or you didnt think about it. Unserious sanctions is the editorial. The sanctions are more likely to reconfirm the russian strongmans view that mr. Obama has no stomach for a confrontation. Within hours of the white house action, mr. Putin signed a decree recognizing crimeas independence from ukraine. Maybe a path to formal. Nnexation of the peninsula he said he does not need to invade Eastern Ukraine if he can achieve local control by other means. Sanctions are an imperfect foreignpolicy tool, but russias weak economy and dependence on western Capital Markets give the u. S. And europe to leverage of their serious. The sanctions are worse than ir main because the impact will make america look weak. Lets go to bob from florida. Democrats line. Caller thank you for cspan. You do a nice job. Boycott Russian Companies here in the u. S. Would maybe list some of the Biggest Companies that do business here. I could think of one. Byoil i will never uy another drop from them. You could list the biggest that dos that americans business with better russian owned. I would love for you to give us a big list. Host thanks for the call. Jean has this point on twitter. Keep mouth shut. Oh another editorial from the Washington Post. Park but no bite. Bark but no bite. Exceeds thes or most pessimistic expectations of his belligerence. It Russian Forces extended their invasion from crimea to an adjacent area of ukraine. The u. S. And its allies so far delivering less than a friend or the market expected in retaliation. Unless the west steps up measures, the result will be more aggression. Josh from the Washington Bureau of the daily beast has the story. Russian will sanction u. S. Senators. Putin is set to respond with his own list. Several u. S. Senators and officials will be banned from visiting russia, including dick durbin. They are sure to be on vladimir list. S sanction seven russian officials and for ukrainian officials will be barred from Holding Assets or traveling to the u. S. Putin is expected to release his retaliation as soon as today. It will include a Top Obama Administration officials and highprofile u. S. Senators in an thert to roughly mirror sanctions against russian officials. This is the headline this morning from the financial times. Putin backs the crimea state. His last night recognizing crimea as an independent state in the finds of sanctions imposed just hours earlier on senior russian officials by the u. S. And the eu. Running to escalate the crisis in ukraine over sundays overwhelming referendum vote by cry means to secede and join russia. Vote by crimea to secede and join russia. Good morning. Caller im calling from dayton, ohio. My name is kathleen. The question i have with president obama and many of our president s is that when we the territorial integrity and the international , we applied there but dont apply to israel. You guys had a recent special on cspan called reassessing the. S. Israel relationsh theres a double standard about application of Certain International laws. Flye double standards dont in the rest of the world. Whisper ondly been a msnbc about Obama Meeting with the boss. Host we covered the photo op yesterday. Time is not on our side as the president two weeks ago sat down with the israeli Prime Minister. Stephen writes that the president pushed the Palestinian Authority president on monday for a breakthrough in the Peace Process saying all sides know what sacrifices need to be made as they hurtle down the u. S. Imposed april deadline for concrete progress. The prospects remained grim. Even mr. Abbas striking a gloomy note saying the window for getting a deal is slipping way. The latest flareup is over the a jewishtatus of state. Has balked. We want to get your reaction to the u. S. Sanctions on russia. Is it enough . We heard from the president yesterday. We will hear from russian president putin as he addressed the parliament in moscow. The phone lines are this is the headline as putin and u. S. Up the ante after the vote. U. S. Needs to mind its own business. U. S. Needs to mind their own business. You go back to 1917, a lot people dont know the true history of what happened during that revolution. The u. S. Did not help russia. Betrayed the royals and told the communists exactly where the royals were so they could be assassinated. There we go. To during the chinese olympics, the u. S. Try to take over georgia. Through democracy, which was false. Take andare trying to andltrate into the ukraine try to create some kind of animosity during these olympics. If to prove a point you takeoof up saying over georgia and then turn around and make a problem now airing the love fix during when the ukraine has always been a part of russia. Host this from tom on our twitter page saying, rowing rush into a recession would be the best way to throw putin out of office. We cant risk a war with a nuclear power. More of your calls in just a moment. A related story on all this in the u. S. And world report website with this question is obama right to impose sanctions on russian individuals . Front page of the. A. Times the pittsburgh postgazette, iant putin declares crimea independent. This headline from the hartford current is the west moves to punish russia. Joining us from randallstown, maryland. Caller good morning. I think this country should be patient. Russia does not have the economy to go forward. Someone told me a long time ago thans better to be quiet to open your mouth and remove all doubt. I think patience is clear. We have the military strength to do it. We must do this along with the eu. As long as we do that, we wont get into a situation like we did where we had the king, dick say thato come and they served with him. We dont need this kind of action anymore. We can handle it. We just need to be patient. We should do it with the eu. Thank you. Host things for the call. This headline from the globe in canada. The kremlin embraces an independent crimea and mocks sanctions issued by the u. S. And western governments. One of our viewers saying that the u. S. Sanctions are meaningless to russia. They only understand force, but we should not bother to go there. This response from connecticut senator chris murphy in response to the vote on sunday. 95. 5 , seriously . 100 . T just make it ard on ourall is rich republican line. . S this enough t ,aller i guess the question is i have not read anywhere on an actual list of what they want to do. Or does anybody know what they want to do. So what we are going to do is enforce the russians she was going to tell the crimeans that everything is off after the jubilation on television that they will have to go back to the ukraine. . Wewill tell them that have all these press reports and eul these dignitaries in th what do they want him to do at this point echo we are backing this key of government that Everybody Knows is iev this ke government. This dictatorship they think that will happen in moldova. Ive been there. Moldova asked russia to help them out and they refused. The poorest nation in the world because of the european on how many them tomatoes they can grow. Before people have a comment, they should actually googled some of these countries and read up on them instead of having a blanket comment that everything we do in america is right. And everybody that doesnt follow us is wrong. Host vivian has this point on our twitter page. President bush workssion to invade iraq . Kirk has this tweet mark kirk has this tweet. Will the u. S. Dropped its bid to share classified Missile Defense data with russia . Mondays New York Times as the celebration took place in crimea. We will listen to just need from maryland. Good morning. Is this isment an election year. This is the best politics ive seen in my life. Its about politics. Thats my comment. Host thanks for the call. We will go to richard in fredericksburg, virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thea comment ukrainian people have stood up for the freedom and we need to not lose sight of that. They have stood up for themselves. The ukrainians have stood up and we need to support them. Host thanks for the call. Another viewer saying between our debt, the war, the unemployment rate, why should we care about rush at all . The london telegraph is reporting on the situation on tanks set in ukraine. To defend russia from ukraine. Additional funds to construct trenches and other defenses to show russia that any and persian any incursion would be resisted. Dana milbank reporting on a call with officials yesterday on these latest sanctions. Obama aims to hit putin where it hurts. There are no fewer than seven mentions of cronies on the Conference Call. White house word of the day, cronies used so much in this sanctions Conference Call it poll testedhey proteste reaction to it. There was little in the sanctions that would impair putin or his government. Our next call is david from vancouver, washington. Good morning. Caller hello. I will ask reviewers, what would they expect president obama to gb stood up ink b canada in order to put russian missiles on the u. S. Border . Putin is defending russia against a project for a new American Century plan to put nato at russias front door. He has to respond the way he has. Its ironic that the vote count has been overwhelming in favor of crimea rejoining russia. Jews arest neocon behind all this. Host we will go to bill in waynesville, North Carolina. Caller good morning. We all might be missing the big picture in this whole thing. Crimea as russias main access to ships and summer rains in the submarines in the black sea. Our next world war could be in the making right now. Take aica would stop and serious look and realize the great danger russia has more Nuclear Weapons than we do. Nuclearmost powerful weapon on earth. They destroyed a whole island next to alaska one time. Putin is not week like our president. Weak like our president. Americathink most of o trusts this president to leave this country. Wake up and start taking a serious look at whats going on. Host bill from North Carolina. If you are just tuning in or are you are listening on cspan radio, we are getting your reaction to the announcement yesterday by president obama on a limited number of sanctions aimed at russian individuals involved in the incursion. By crimea. On vote addressing the Russian Parliament, saying that crimea cannot be separated from russia. We will get more reaction from president putin and your calls and comments. This theas price of failed leadership. He takes a larger look at the president s role in Foreign Policy over the last six years. Hands so tidy echo our leaders terrible timing. Foreign affairs crisis we have faced over the past five years, there was a point where america had good choices and good options. There was a juncture when america had the potential to influence events. But we failed to act. Obama and secretary of state clinton have traveled the world and trying to rebuild the promise to meet relationships and build friendships across the globe. Their failure has been painfully evident. It is hard to name even a single country that has more respect and admiration for America Today than when president obama took office. Now russia is in ukraine. Part of their failure is due to their failure to act within action was possible when action was possible. Kerry must succeed. Timing is of the essence. Carol is joining us from st. Louis, missouri. Good morning. Caller good morning. I was calling to say i see a big problem with the news media and how certain papers like the ones you been reading all morning have down our president. How do you expect the rest of the world to respect him . Our Congress Gets up and down with our president. How could they possible respect target who is a constant of us saying he is no good . When they made such a point that we are so broke, now they want wheres the money coming from . I dont get it. Host thank you for making your point. We will hear from all of you and different points of view. Daniel agrees with you. Emperor putin has no clothes. Another headline on this tuesday. Russians ridicule obama sanctions. The president slapping russia with the kinds of economic sanctions not seen since the cold war. The administrations supposed hardline was met with mockery and a collective shrug in moscow. Next kathy from daytona beach, for the. Good morning. Independent line. Romney i dont believe or mccain have gotten over losing the election. I really think they are sore losers. Something people have forgotten before the olympics, russia was being threatened with serious terrorist threats. Putin had to beef up security. Their something called fear of influence. Every country abides by that. Anything that happens new york border or close to you, you do take an interest in. Anything that happens new york border. You can have a void there when it is rebellion. Didnt what george w. Bush did not. Bush did not secure our borders after 9 11. He failed. Richard has this point. The gop and the cowboys without an exit strategy have yet to pay for their past adventures. Another editorial from the financial times. Prepare for putins next move. Believet putin may crimea should not exist as a state at all if it does not align with russia. Caller good morning. I think this may have something more to do with the imf and the baskets of assets each country is said to have. Its a fight over the assets of ukraine. Thats exactly whats going on. This is more to do with the american dollar. If russia and china allowed, things could go downstream real fast. Theres a lot more to this than what we are hearing. Host thanks for the call. Next up is thomas from North Carolina. Good morning. Caller one thing i would like to do hear someone answer, what about the astronauts we have on the space they should yucca we relied on russia to get on the space station . We relied on russia to get us up there. Host things for the call. President putin is addressing the Russian Parliament in moscow. We want to listen in. You will hear Vladimir Putin through translator. They use force against sovereign states whenever they want to. Game. Lay some states toure other gather resolutions the way it needs. If they cant do it, they ignore s. E Security Council that was the case in 1999 in yugoslavia. At the end of the 20th century, one of the european capitals was bombed for several weeks. Place. Rvention took putthere any resolution forth by the u. S. . They distorted the resolution on libya. They did not issue a nofly zone. Libya through a series of resolutions. People in these countries are tired of tyranny, poverty that these interests exploit. These people host the comments from letter Vladimir Putin. It woulddent said result and further sanctions. Jan has thisnough . Point on her twitter page. Putin does not care what the rest of the world thinks. Sue has this email we have to be smart here. What can we really do . President bush couldnt do anything to stop russia from invading georgia. Dont blame to his hand. Thats all. Forts joining us from lauderdale, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think the republicans are as politicalis calculation. Its going to make president obama look weak on international affairs. Wh