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The country today, commemorations for that third anniversary of putin signing that order absorbing crimea into the russian territory. replaying, there's a student concert that's going to be happening here in moscow, so this is not something they are willing to discuss and i think there was a certain amount of hope when the trump administration took over in washington that the u.s. might be willing to soften its stance, certainly the reason that candidate trump was so popular in russia was that he said during the campaign that he might be willing to consider recognizing crimea but since his ina...

Permanently, at least in the eyes of putin. so what, if anything, can the united states do to stop that from happening? chris murphy of connecticut joins me now. senator, you were there with the senator in kiev rallying with the protesters. do you think there's any way the administration can stop moscow from absorbing crimea now or is basically the peninsula lost? >> well, there's no doubt that putin has these extra territorial ambitions, that he has a view of russia that is rooted back in the cold war and i think he took this offensive action in part because he calculated that there wasn't go...