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State rex tillerson or the doing good cop, bad cop routine? >> well, i think they're doing a good cop, bad cop routine. look, the president and secretary matus, secretary tillerson are all aware of the ground reality in south korea. we have 33000 troops there on alert. we have 230,000 civilians and i was there a couple of months ago we were actually practicing the extrication, evacuation of american civilians there. no one wants shooting more in the peninsula. china does not want it. russia does not want to. the united states does not want it but here is where i think the opening and the poten...

Often how these things are. there's a washington reality and on the ground reality. which is why it's important to talk to voters and party officials. but that doesn't mean people aren't nervous about this because the unknown power of bannon is sort of a -- an uncertainty and mish mcconnell is radioactive. he could also be gaming the refs early on getting barrasso and deb fisher to think how close do i want to get to mcconnell here. it's something to keep an eye on but it's important to keep the entire scenario in mind. mitch mcconnell has won many more of these than the outside. >> to your po...

Me. usually with its regional partner it is chinese are fairly diplomatic in their language. but we actually have state-owned media saying that -- you know, withholding information from the public can be dangerous, even lethal. these are very strong statements coming from the chinese. >> and, patrick, in the statement from the representative for the 154 chinese nationals who were on board this flight, the wording is incredibly strong. at one point they say "if our 154 family members lost their lives in malaysian air, the malaysian government and the malaysian military killed our relatives. the...

Annexation of crimea. russian troops building up along the ukrainian border raising questions about putin's intentions. >> reporter: moscow confirming what for all intents and purposes is the ground reality in crimea. russia have much in control, backed up by something like 20,000 troops that moved into crimea. a couple weeks ago this area was ukraine. no word on the bases of the ukraine military being overrun. there are 10,000 or more ukrainian troops on that peninsula. they are telling me an evacuation plan is underway. that would be a surrender from the ukrainian government. they do have co...

Annex crimea from ukraine. president vladmir putin signing bills maisching the peninsula part of russia now. at nearly the same time ukraine's interim prime minister signing an historic deal, strengthening political ties with the european union, moving ukraine further away from moscow's influence. greg palkot live from kiev, ukraine with more. greg? >> reporter: hey, jenna. moscow making official what is the grim reality in crimea for now. for all intents and purposes russia in control of a place a short time was through and through ukraine. now they are backed up by some 20,000 russian troops...