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Wheelhouse making trips and coming back and making recommendations to the white house and colleagues and when's inappropriate and wrong in this case is asking for sanctions to be lifted on two individuals. the first one sanctioned for support of russia's illegal an s next crimea. it's a slap in the face of the united states government and american people to lift the sanctions on the two guys and let them come to the states. you can talk to them over the phone. you don't have to bring them here and lift the sanctions. >> what do you make of this request from rand paul? it is interesting, seeing...

This slide zone. to other news. the g-8 is down to seven now. world leaders gathered in the netherlands yesterday minus representatives from the kremlin. meanwhile, ukraine is rebuilding its worn down military, a force that many members of congress say was allowed to languish for years under president yanukovych. "the wall street journal" says the military has 40,000 military personnel but only 6,000 land troops are combat ready. the senate has finally approved aid for ukraine in a lopsided vote guaranteeing $1 billion in loans and 100 million to foster security and independence. but senator...

Depicts kiev on the outside and on its own. this must be deeply disillusioning for ukrainians who in recent months expressed their desire for freedom and a place in europe and whose forces participated in a nato collective defense exercise as recently as november. this red line can only reassure vladimir putin and his military planners whose use of unmarked military personnel and the plausible deniability they provided in crimea reflected at least initial concern about potential responses from the west. >> what is he saying? that nato protects ukraine? if we do, we will absolutely threaten an ...

Reality, if crimea was de facto a russian property, then we should have figured that out before we entered into the agreement with ukraine, right? >> i think the thing that makes this especially dangerous is the links, as i say, with the nuclear issue. there was a guarantee of ukraine's sovereignty in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons. one can't brush this off but i still want to say if we just sit around and tell the american people how evil putin is and he breaks international law and we forget all of the things that the u.s. does, we actually don't understand the global scene properly....

Isolate russia. it is more serious. but my point, mika, is also that we have violated international law so much that both sides actually have so weakened any international norms that russia is acting, yes, in real politics, and one could say, well, that's life. i don't think that is life. i think we have agreements -- >> people are acting like it was afait accompli from the very beginning. we had a couple of weeks ago that can't be the case. you have these international agreements and you have international law. at this point, let's stop looking at what vladimir putin has done. we know what he...