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At the exxonmobil website, the official bio for rex tillerson lists proudly he's been ordered the medal of friendship by vladimir putin, president of the russian federation. today the european union announced individual targeted sanctions against 21 people in russia and in crimea who the eu says were instrumental in trying to break crimea off from the nation of ukraine and make it part of russia instead. those 21 individuals will be banned from travel to any european union country and any assets they have in any european union country as of today are frozen. that list is the product of negotia...

Negotiating in the best soviet era fashion. he puts his boot on ukraine's neck and then says let's negotiate. people should understand, ukraine is not a 90/10 country. if you look between ukrainian nationalists, pro russian political forces, it's much closer to 50/50. if putin slices crimea off, he diminishes the chance for the pro russian forces in ukraine ever to win an election again. i don't understand why he would want to do that. the momentum is still in russia's direction. i think putin believes he can get a government in kiev that will do what russia wants on issues critical to are you...

Tough. >> i want to bring in bob beckal. i want your announcement on what we should do. here is ukraine, russia, this is crimea and that is the area in question. the thing that is so valuable to putin. they have a russian base in crimea -- well, here is the base, back it up to the larger map, the reason why putin is critical about this area is this gives him a water route out to the mediterranean. you said we have to show putin we are serious, how do we do that in >> we need to write crimea off. paint them red. they have been reintegrating