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Professionals. people who serve on the armed services committee for example in the senate or the senate foreign relations committee. republicans who stood by this president at some point they have to say . >> my thanks to former ambassador powers. she is the author of this new book "the education of an idealist." he's legendary. known for playing tough guys on tv and has some tough words for president trump.
Sovereignty of a nation. we don't want to make enemies of the russians, but if we listen to our ambassador powers at the u.n., she was very clear and succinct about what our responsibilities are and what russia should take responsibility for and not simply walk away. they are hiding in the shadows, as you just heard. >> as you heard from jim maceda, who was reporting from ukraine about a month or two ago and was going through process. i remember speaking to him on camera. on post-election, they thought things might get better. we are now post-election. do you think things are going to get bett...
And i want to bring in david road, investigative reporter to reuters and david crane who is an ambassador to ukraine. and ambassador, samantha powers calls this very tense. are they on the brink of civil war? >> no, it is not civil war of ukrainians against ukrainians, but it is russian aggression that the ukrainian military and the security services is obligated to counter. and so this is not civil war, but it is aggression by the russians. >> and the question is, what does the west do about it? i want to look at a couple of things. talk about the possible escalation of sanctions that ambassa...
To what we've witnessed in the last 24 hours? in essence, the beginning of the annexation of the crimean forces? i don't know anyone who believes that is an appropriate response. >> others came out, said we support the president and stand ready in a bipartisan way to come together on sanctions or any other way we can to try to intervene in the situation and back russia off. would a move from capitol hill be anymore proportional in your estimation? >> look, i certainly things that should and can be done in terms of putting together some kind of military maneuvers, aimed at sending a very clear ...
Numbers, though the percentages -- i mean one state flipped, his numbers went up. so overwhelmingly the referendum favored the president and the affordable care act. we ought to recognize that. we ought to respect that and move forward. >> thank you very much, congressman james clyburn. always good to have you on the program. >> thank you so much for having me. we are waiting for the president to arrive at the u.n. we are told that he has left. we've already seen ambassador powers coming in. so as we wait, i want to bring in our company, joel ruben, director of policy and government affairs ...