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That in russian terms is about 500 soldiers. of course, and that's the other thing why there's some disbelief amongst this group of soldiers up here right close to the border because the ukrainians and the russians have for years trained together. they feel still that they're in many ways brothers in arms and they feel a sense of disbelief now that they're staring at one another down the barrel of a gun, wolf. >> karl penhaul on the border between ukrainian ayuukraine an. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is joining us right now. as you know a lot of talk about diplomacy, pulling back t...

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Truly foreign effect we had was under george w. bush in part because they really could coordinate means. there was a cost for saying no to the united states. right now there is no cost. and for the great power, that's incredibly important. jenna: our conversations could go a lot longer but appreciate the time as always. thank you very much. >> thank you, jenna. jon: perhaps because of a lack of street cred, russia is standing its ground refusing to pull back troops. we'll look next at the media coverage of the crisis and the president's administration handling of the situation. how prosecutors...

It's the same song over and over again. >> thank you, greg, for that musical intro. back in 2010 the obama administration made this prediction about the future of iraq. >> i am very optimistic about iraq. i think it's going to be one of the great achievements of this administration. you're going to see a stable government in iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government. >> nearly four years later al qaeda is in control of key parts of the country. nearly all of fallujah, ramadi. our troops worked in the anbar province. 1300 americans gave their life. john kerry said the u....

Keep the cards to yourself. and one of the problems that we have politically is whether it's making deals or talking about china, everybody exposes everything. i don't think you can necessarily do that, eric. you have to go out, you have to let iran know, however in the strongest of terms, that they are not going to have a nuclear weapon. >> can i just follow up with you, donald, though? i mean, he talks in one sense, it's getting more dangerous in the middle east. yet, we're pulling back troops. maybe it's not the time to be pulling back troops. >> well, i will tell you this -- the middle eas...