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New Day-20140425-11:08:00

explain why the exercises are happening. just another ratchet up of the tension here. michaela? >> nick paton walsh in ukraine. thank you for that. clearly the president has a lot on his plate right now while he is on the second stop of his asia tour. at a news conference this morning in seoul the president said the u.s. and south korea stand shoulder to shoulder in refuses to accept north korea's nuclear program amid reports pyongyang is about to conduct a nucleare nuclear test. the family offered condolences to the families of the ferry. we now know a chicago pediatrician was among the three americans called in a shooting at a charity hospital in afghanistan. dr. jerry umanos moved to afghanistan in 2005 after he practiced in chicago. umanos trained afghan doctors. the guard turned the gun on himself but survived and is

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listen with tougher sanctions. they say arm them but the ukrainians are not quite ready for that? >> everyone is virtually divided. right now the president wants to bring the yup european community on board. they're not sure going the route the president wants to go at this moment. interesting thing here, john, is that remember when the president ran for re-election he really leaned pretty hard on his foreign policy as a reason why he should get re-elected. iraq, afghanistan, getting osama bin laden, now going forward, foreign policy has been a black eye in the second term of his presidency. ukraine being the latest example lu also syria, questions about iran. the mideast peace process. the president is having a tough time on this trip and is clearly showing from this press conference today. >> tough time abroad, tough time at home if president though, let's give him credit here. he acknowledges his relationship with vladimir putin has turned south. you might remember last week in an interesting exchange, i'll call it interesting, with edward

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investigation that have been made. and quite a lot of myths about who said what that never really happened. >> well, one important step in trying to repair any damage to the country's reputation is opening up, really opening up, not just saying they're going to open up and be transparent. sitting down with you and answering questions without restriction is an important step in that process. richard, great interview. we'll continue to talk about it throughout the morning. thank you for coming on. breaking overnight, ukraine's interim prime minister saying flat out russia wants to starred world war iii. moscow is not doing much to convince people otherwise, starting military drills just outside ukraine. president obama says he is ready to level the most aggressive sanctions yet. let's bring in senior international correspondent nick paton walsh in ukraine with the latest. nick? >> chris, we are a ways away from world war iii but it's a sheer amount of political weight around the tension here that's got everybody so worried.

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headlines. ukraine's interim prime minister is sounding the aliving room saying it looks like russia wants to start world war iii. so the question is, is help on the way? the president of the united states is saying hess set to speak with european leaders about a response to the aggression in ukraine but he's indicating any action will take time that it's going to be slow before they can slow down the russians. russia seemingly dismissing all the talk is just that, empty words. now performing military drills on its border with ukraine. what does it all mean? what's going to happen next? we have major general james "spider" marks here on the map to explain. great to see you. glad to hear you had a good easter. >> thank you. >> look, how am i pitching it? i'm pitching it like talk is cheap. that's the response from russia. what is their message? >> totally provocative. we have formations that are appearing outside of ukraine that are us a stensively for

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she's with the president. he just gave comments in south korea. he's continuing the war of words and the question therefore remains, can the u.s. make russia do anything in this situation that it doesn't want to? >> hi, chris, right, throughout this asian trip the world's eyes have been watching the ukraine situation and the u.s. response to it. i think it was interesting that president obama said that tonight he would be talking to european allies about that situation. you know, we've been hearing for many days now that the expanded sanctions against russia are coming soon, they're ready to go. the administration has been using words like watch and wait and coming days or through the wekend which has long since past. the fact that they're going to be talking about that tonight could indeed indicate that those sanctions are coming very, very soon. but today president obama also mentioned the possibility of applying pressure with more bite to north korea. remember, in this part of the world north korea is the biggest

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>> i would say i hope you can stop in indiana but it doesn't look like it's going to reach there and either way i don't want you anywhere near a storm so maybe you should get stuck here. >> my wife doesn't like it either. >> i know. >> have a good weekend to everyone. >> respect chad everett going there to make sure people are going if extreme weather hits and thinking of his buddy with the big nose that doesn't work when the pollen gets in it. that's a problem, too. a lot of rain, usually warms up the ocean, that makes it better for fishermen. got to see the positive. especially on friday. coming up on "new day," the search for flight 370 is getting bigger, much bigger. but is bigger better? ahead, ukraine's prime minister accusing russia of plotting world war iii. the rhetoric kicking up this morning as the u.s. continues to threaten new sanctions and with moscow planning more military drills is the violence about to

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consequences, saying, quote, if the kiev regime has started to use the army against the population inside the country, it is a very serious crime. >> russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the russian federation. >> reporter: russia's response was swift, conducting new military drills for 40,000 troops positioned along the eastern ukrainian border moving tanks into place and testing jet fighters to overcome any missile defense. running out of patience the ukrainian president inviss that russia retreat and end what he calls its blackmail. ukraine remains a country divided with those in the east carrying a strong allegiance to russia. the war of words between the u.s. and russia growing increasingly intense. secretary of state john kerry accusing russia of distraction, deception, and destabilization in the region. >> if russia continues in this direction, it will not just be a grave mistake, it will be an expensive mistake.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140424:18:10:00

the u.s. is in a box here. what can the u.s. do short of ratcheting up our own military response to actually get some movement on peace in the ukraine? >> what obama is saying there is, we are not the global policeman, and every single time something awful happens around the world, it is not incumbent on the united states to fight about it. that's a very common-sense reduction of much of his foreign policy. but it also then immediately begs the question of, okay, well, if you're not going to fight about it, and you're not also going to fight at arm's length by providing arms, which isn't going to happen anytime soon in the ukrainian context, then what other than talking are you really willing to do? and there obama's answer in ukraine, as it has been elsewhere, is economic sanctions. and that's essentially using the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140424:18:08:00

are you hearing any sort of a plan to escalate on the ground to at least get that done? because that i think is when people looking from the outside looking in, makes the government look incredibly weak. >> right. those irregulars who have occupied government buildings in several cities and towns were supposed to be gone by now, under terms of an agreement reached a week ago, and russia said it would help make that happen. it hasn't. now, there's a question about whether russia has full control over those irregulars, but certainly if vladimir putin had gone on television the other day or did so today, and said, come on, everybody, give it up, they would have a whole lot less of a nationalist standing, and mandate to keep occupying those buildings. the fact that it hasn't happened raises questions about the ukrainian government's ability to do any of this on its own. and were they to actually undertake a military operation,

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we, united states, has been ineffective up until this point to include our friends in europe to help them out of this spot. what we need to do is apply pressure in kiev and say, look, you've got to get control of what's happening in eastern ukraine. and at the same time, the russians are saying to the united states, you need to tell kiev to apply pressure to get things controlled in eastern ukraine. this is a kiev issue. this is a ukrainian issue to try and gain control. united states has leverage and has some ability to influence the activities. and i would suggest that the very first thing the united states can do is to go to putin, can go to the foreign minister lavrov and say, look, it's very provocative what's taking place in east ukraine. let's be frank. get rid of your troops that are north of the border of ukraine. that's incredibly provocative right now. whether you think you have all the rights to do that and they do, russia certainly can

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