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Tough, he knows america well, he knows when we're serious and i think the fact that there is a very strong reaction in the american government lavrov knows and hopefully he will tell putin, we have to deescalate. i think it's a very tense situation and we have to keep the pressure on and i think in europe, germany is the key, france and britain following with germany, taking a stronger lead i think is really very important. >> tense indeed, bill richardson, glad to have you on the program. next on our russian control network, the tv network, one

The front gate and who sort of shouted back, being called a o provocate provocateaur. a tense situation, and for many on a personal level as they try to keep in touch with their loved ones inside these military installations but can't get through. we saw the red cross try to get into the navy headquarters with medicine, with food, with water and they were stopped, anderson. >> and then the newly installed pro russian prime minister of crimea told cnn today that the descriptions on the ground in crimea have been overblown and

>> ambassador richardson, you've done a lot of negotiating, obviously. as you look at this situation, do you feel that there's a planned strategic aprooich proas there an impression of an ad hoc nature on the decision making by putin? >> i think, jill, because putin is so unpredictable, because the russians are so all over the place on their intentions, it has to almost be ad hoc. one of the bad sides of today is the u.n. envoy literally being expelled, pushed out of crimea, if a solution is going to involve human rights monitors and observers, that's not a good sign and it sort of throws away...

Russia and together with our friends and allies in an effort to provide a way for this entire situation to find the road to deescalation. >> there is breaking news tonight. we're learning exactly how the russian invasion came together. just pieces of information starting to form a clearer picture, whether there was a lot of advanced planning or whether the plan was launched really on the fly by russia, implications for u.s. intelligence agencies which are being slammed in some quarters for being caught offguard, joining us is robert sciuto and bob bayer. so jim, you're learning new information...

But this is also very much a shrine, a memorial to those who died here. more than 80 people died here, a little bit more than a week and a half ago. i want to show you just one of many shrines all throughout this square, five people died right here on this spot and they are memorialized here. you can see their photographs pasted here, their names, some of the personal information. people have placed rosaries. and if you're wondering what these are, these are actually shields, riot police shields and some of them are makeshift shields that the protesters used to hide behind to try to save thems...