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Kind of makes no sense at all. despite all its recall issue, gm monthly sales are the best in nearly six years. christine romans is live in new york to explain it all. good morning. >> good morning. the recall headlines, not having effect on the traffic and the purchasing in those dealerships, carol. these numbers show strong demand for gm cars in the month of may, carol. what i can tell you is sales increased 12.6%. there were have 17 vehicle lines that saw double digit sales increases. it was the best month since august 2008 and the best may in seven years. how does that compare with the oth...

Minister spearheaded a campaign. and russian forces invading chechnya. and there was allegations of rape and murder. and now under the watch, the conflict heats in late 2002. and 50 armed chechan. and russian forces killed most of the rebels and 130 of the hostams. four years later russia is at odds with belaerous over a pipeline. and august 2008. russia had a five day war with georgia over the territories. and after months of tension in the region, georgia attacked the south ossetia.

Minister spearheaded a campaign. and russian forces invading chechnya. and there was allegations of rape and murder. and now under the watch, the conflict heats in late 2002. and 50 armed chechan. and russian forces killed most of the rebels and 130 of the hostams. four years later russia is at odds with belaerous over a pipeline. and august 2008. russia had a five war with georgia over the territories. and after months of tension in the region, georgia attacked the south ossetia.

Europeans and next day he flees. he shows up in russia. you have to play catch-up. but the idea that the russians could put pressure on crimea. people have always thought about there were times in the 1990s when it looked as if crimea was going to try and secede. so the principle has always been there, but it's always the timing. you never know if it's going to actually happen. >> if the intelligence community misread it, that's significant. i remember the first gulf war, when the intelligence community didn't appreciate saddam hussein was about to invade kuwait, they misread his deployment of...

All. >> britain would certainly follow us, england would certainly follow us and france i believe would follow us. germany, they are wishy, washy, but i think you can put pressure on them. that's the way to go. now, mr. whiton, you were involved with the georgia thing, all right? where in august 2008 only three months before president bush left office putin tried the same play, all right, in georgia. but the georgians shot at the russian troops there was excuse-maker there and eventually putin pulled out most of his troops there do you think that's what's going to happen in ukraine. >> i don't...