The summit 11 00 a. M. Eastern time. Well begin with your thoughts on u. S. Russian relations. Are we in a new cold war . President obama was asked that question. He said no. But where do you think this is all headed . Join the conversation on twitter or facebook. Com cspan. You can email us also. A reporter last week after president barack obama made the announcement of another round of sanctions against russia had the question whether or not this is a new cold war. Heres what the president had to say. No, its not a new cold war. It is a very specific issue related to russias unwillingness to recognize that ukraine can chart its own path. And i think that if you listen to petro poroschenko, they have said they seek good relations with russia. What they cant accept is russia arming separatists who are carrying out terribly destructive activities inside of ukraine, thereby undermining the ability of ukraine to govern itself peacefully. Thats something that no country should have to accept. And the sooner that russians recognize that the best chance for them to have influence inside of ukraine is by being Good Neighbors and maintaining trade and commerce rather than trying to dictate what the ukrainian people can aspire to, rendering ukraine a baffle state to russia, the sooner that president putin recognizes, the sooner we can solve this crisis. President barack obama asked if this is a new cold war between the United States and russia. We want you to weigh in on that. Start calling in now. Heres a for bs article. Obama disagreed. But a politician said the u. S. Was fermenting a new cold war with the latest round of sanctions. A cold war has been declared which is today expressed by devicing sanctions. The Treasury Department sanctioned a number of russian companies, including the large v t b group, second only to stateowned burr bank. In addition, washington banned export of technologies for fracking. The sanctions, part of a series of economic punishment that is began in march after the annexation of crimea continue to pose a threat to the russians economy. Beyond the pain, a political standoff is in the works. One not seen since the days of the soviet union. What are your thought . Is it a new cold war between the United States and russia . Well go to the independent caller. Caller hello. Absolute not. I think that everyone should just allow the president in chief to do his job. War is just the first that comes to mind for mostly conservatives and some democrats. I think sanctions are doing well. They have always done well. We need to stop thinking war war war the first time any disagreement comes to play. Because we have wars that are People Killed over senseless wars. I love what the president is doing and how he is being cautious, especially Something Like going to war. Look at the oped pages on the New York Times. The risk of a new cold war. This being written by the they write that russian prospectives are bound to diverge. But the tragedy of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 should bring us together. The incident is a harbinger of the wider danger we are in. A profound concern is the possibility of an unintended escalation of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine to a direct natorussia military confrontation. To avoid such a development, policy makers need to relearn some important Crisis Management lessons from history. They say i just considered that even before the flight 17 disaster, we had seen a huge deterioration in trust between russia and the west. In addition, there is little contact or exchange of information on what our respective militaries are doing and the existing Crisis Management arrangements between nato and russia and the European Union and russia are inadequate. There are large numbers of Nuclear Weapons on both sides on high states of alert. Many potentially useful mechanisms for dialogue are also closed down. Todd, what are your thoughts . Caller it is what it is. These actions were started by the putin regime. He cant act with impunity. There have to be negative consequences to his actions. If it becomes a cold war, thats what its going to be until the price of oil goes down sufficiently to harm the russian economy to cause a regime change. Host do you think the sanctions the sanctions started in march and he has slowlied aed to them. Do you think that this slowly doing that has been a good strategy or should there be more forceful, the administration be more forceful on this in helping ukraine to show our strength . Caller ukrainians arent a perfect entity. The president has basically said territorial integrity is important for all countries. Theres a lot of business between the europeans and the russians, like the french selling them military equipment and natural gas being sold to europe. So the president is doing wheek to talk what he can to unify the European Union in sanctions. I think he is doing it the right way, going step by step saying these are your consequences. Were going to keep going. They could have missiles in all of the former eastern block countries. Putin is not stupid. I think the people around him that are rich are not stupid. I think they are looking at whats going on and saying we have to reevaluate this. I think its appropriate. Host todd, heres from cnn. Com. Things to know about russia and sanctions. This was put together on july 24th. Look at that number. 34 of the e us gas comes from russia. You can see on this map they show you how much goes to germany. 40 . 18 to france, 20 to italy. That from cnn. Com. You also talked about the military relationships between European Countries and russia. Here is a story in the world news section of the Financial Times this morning. Germany is canceling combat training deal with russia. They report that in russia the decision by germany yesterday to withdraw authorization for the threeyear contract is expected to accelerate moves to cut dependens on imported military technology which has been boosted by sectorwide sanctions. This could raise questions about frances 1. 2 billion euro billion euro contract with russia, the first helicopter delivery due in all the of 2015. Look at these contracts, the numbers. In euros, 1. 2 billion is the value of the deal between france and russia. 120 million euro is the value of this military deal between germany and russia, the one that was canceled yesterday. We feed your thoughts on whether or not its a new cold war between the u. S. And russia. That was todd in florida. In other news out of russia, here is the New York Times front page this morning. Buildup makes russia battleready for ukraine. Russia has roughly doubled the number of its ba tallions near the ukrainian border. They have 17 ba tallions. In a battle ready force of infantry, armor within a few miles of the border. It has increased fire power, deploying more than 30 artillery batteries. The kremlins intentions is in increasing its military abilities remain unclear. Vladimir putin and could be prer insures the ukraine and the United States to political settlement to increase eastern provinces of ukraine the prorussian separatists in ukraine on the verge of defeat. That is the latest out of ukraine and russia. Russian forces builting up forces along the border. Kirk, are we in a cold war . Caller i dont think so. Were just living in a complicated world. I think americans need to recognize this and realize that president , rather than using the army or getting involved in some kind of a military intervention, being strategic and making decisions with russia or any countries around the world is better off than getting into another war, losing thousands of american lives, spending money and then hated by people around the world. Its crazy for us to be impulsive and resorting to war every time something happens in a country. We are living in a complicated world and america is not able to solve every single problem everywhere. Its ludicrous. Host let me bounce off some tweets from republican members of the senate who have ideas of their own of what this administration should be doing. Heres the first one saying should designate prorussian groups as terrorist organizations to make putin pay a heavier price for violence. Caller i mean, this prorussian forces these guys are empowered by putin and action are being supported by him. However, america cant respond to the small group. These guys are thugs. We cant have an entire Foreign Policy designed around responding to these small groups of people. We have to think about the impact on all the surrounding countries. Europe is watching us. We have to be strategic and deliberate in what we do. We cant respond with war every time. Host this is from senator out of oklahoma. Hes the ranking republican on the Senate Armed Services committee. Senator john mccain saying putin continues escalate tensions in ukraine and the Obama Administration still refuses to provide ukrainians with defense weapons and intelligence. Should we help the ukraine government militarily . Caller i mean, i think there are consequences to all of these actions. The president and his advisers are aware of this. These countries, their own cultures every time we secure the comfort for who are in American Society where we have fullflejed democracy and make decisions thinking people will respond as we respond as a democratic society, i think we are being naive. Host independent caller, jay, what do you think . I think that russia, putin arent our enemy. Our enemies are liberal americans, the media, and the european alle guard. Host why do you think that . Because Vladimir Putin has never called me a tea bagger and ive only been disrespected by liberals. Host well go to thomas next, independent caller. Caller i dont think putin is that much of a danger to us. I think hes too smart of a man to really push anything that will start any kind of military confrontation over there. Im more concerned about israel and what they are doing to the palestinians, the brutality towards those people. They are causing every in the world to hate america for supporting israel. Host on that front page of the niels, u. S. Ties strained over diplomacy on gaza. A Public Opinion in both israel and the United States solidly behind the israeli militarys campaign against hamas, no outcry from israels arab neighbors and unstinting support on capitol, president obama has had few obvious levers to force mr. Netanyahu to stop targets on gaza until he was ready to do so. On monday, the israeli Prime Minister signalled that moment has come, amid signs it was prepared to wind down the conflict, israel announced it would accept a 72hour ceasefire effective tuesday and send a delegation to cairo to negotiate for a lasting end to the violence. It started at 8 00 a. M. Israel time. The Washington Post, the israelhamas agree to hold fire for 72 hours while negotiations happen in cairo. And the latest deal is being praised by david, who is a Foreign Policy writer for the Washington Post. In his clum he was very critical of secretary of state john kerry in his first attempt for a ceasefire. Now hes saying its time for netanyahu to make peace. Part of this deal, he says the thrust of kerrys new plan is the lefrnl sma hamass plan with as a first step to Palestinian Authority in its u. S. Trained Security Service would assume responsibility for policing from gaza into egypt, and into israel. Thats a big deal to give Abbas Security chief control over the most strategic ground in gaza. So david saying that the regions best hope is for israel to embrace moderate palestinian leaders under this latest ceasefire negotiated in cairo. Our topic this morning is u. S. Russia relations are we at a new cold war after rounds of sanctions levied on russia from the United States and from the European Union. Lin, youre up. Caller thank you for taking my call. I think that president obama has drawn the line in the sand and not backed up his world so many times, be it with syria, back in israel, backing the ukraine, that russia is just walking all over us. He told putins representative that after hes elected he will have more flexibility. For what . He never answered that question. Hes never been asked that question by the media, and we need that answer. Host okay. Youre referring to the man who was the president and now the Prime Minister during that conversation. Their mics were hot and president obama made the comments she is referencing. Janice, what do you think . Caller i dont think russia should be taking sides, nor do i think we should be taking sides in afghanistan and we need to get out of the middle east and russia needs to get out too. Thank you. Host michelle in minnesota, republican caller. Hi. Caller hi. My comment would be, i wonder how mitt romney feels today after he was mocked by obama during the debates when they asked him what country should we be worrying about and romney mentioned russia being a geopolitical power we should be concerned about. And obama and the talking heads mocked him. Guess what . Obama says, what do you do . Talking about the cold war . Are you crazy . Today we are talking about the cold war. People need to take a primer on what happened in world war ii. Hitler went to see what would happen and the europe excuse me france and britain were actually had tanks in the rye land and hitler just walked in and nothing happened. Thats what putin is doing. Hes putting his toes into all of the countries again to see what the world is going to do. Thank you. Host bob in nevada, independent caller. Caller that last comment was ridiculous. They lost the russians and the soviet union lost 28 million fighting nazis. They are antifascists since world war ii. The Monroe Doctrine goes back to president monroe. We had the fear in the western hemisphere. We told them they have no right to interfere in the western hemisphere. We have the government does not want us there. We are occupying it because we could. So, you know, theres a lot more to this. Host given what you said, are we in a cold war . Caller no. Of course not. The crimea they lost hundreds of thousands of people, russians and other soviet republic people to get the nazis out of crimea. A lot of these people in the the ukrainians can take their politics back to the people who support the nazis who da you shall the final solution actually really got under way in the ukraine with the help of fascist ukrainians. Host all right. Well keep taking your thoughts on whether or not this is a new cold war between the u. S. And russia. Other news on the front page of the Washington Post, this headline. Gun control advocate james brady died yesterday at the age of 73. It says james brady the irreverent president secretary to president Ronald Reagan who was shot in the head in 1981 and became an enduring symbol of the unfettered fight against guns died yesterday in his home. Remained an influential fight on gun control. He and his wife described as the first family of gun control. He did background checks for handguns bought from federally license dealers. The president said she a legends at the white house for the strength he brought to bear in recovering from the shooting that nearly killed him 33 years ago and for turning the events of that afternoon into a remarkable journey of service. Since 19 9d 32 law that bears his name has kept guns out of the hands of individuals. That was president obama yesterday on the passing of mr. Brady. Here is mr. Brady in 2011 when he was asked for his reaction on the assassination attempt on the former congresswoman gabby give fords. There are similarities to mine that it hurt a lot. The similarities . Yes. Jim, i think, suffered through that period because both of us realized how hard it is to go through a traumatic brain injury time yes it is. The first three days and then the long hours afterwards of recuperation. Host james and sarah bra di in 2011 reacting to the assassination attempt on gabby give ford. Here is the statement put out by the former first lady nancy reagan. She said in the short time, jim brought integrity. What a shame he was not able to serve longer than we hoped for. Were getting your thoughts on whether or not we are in a new cold war with russia. John. Caller we stood same the guys we still have nato. Nato should be a balance. We should get rid of nato, get rid we dont have that anymore. So we need to stop the cold war mentality in the west. Thank you. Host gilbert, independent caller, what do you think . Caller this socalled cold war is nothing but a camouflage to show that the most powerful country in the world controls the strongest country in the world. We are facing kerry is jumping up and down in front of the face of putin. Putin has more right to crimea than england does to canada. But more importantly, israel the s the most pourless country in the world. It is dictating what the rest of the world is doing. We ought to be ashamed. Host larry, democratic caller. I dont believe theres a cold war, but i think the president should put sanctions on this donothing congress. Host all right, well keep getting your thoughts on this. In other news, the front page of the Atlanta Journal constitution. Second ebola case on way to georgia. The Ebola Outbreak touched american shores on monday as atlanta waited for the arrival of a second ebola patient. A hospital announced it had isolated a man with possible symptoms who walked into the emergency room. And then this front page of the boston globe this morning. Their piece, few preparations in event of ebola in the United Sta