in place. i don t think anybody in america is yet talking about troops in there. nobody s talking about military. the point is that we re trying to do this in a thoughtful way with a maximum amount of diplomatic energy and pressure. joining me now is heather conneley. heather, with a welcome to you, doing things in a sensitive way there as the secretary indicates, increased sanctions would be one way to deal with the diplomacy effect. does that have an effect on president putin? would he pull back as a result of those kinds of sanctions? american and european sanctions have certainly begun to have an effect on the russian economy but it has not seemed to deter vladimir putin for continuing to provide assistance to the separatists. although president obama announced just on wednesday enhanced sanctions, i think the
administration, working with congress is going to have to go back at this again and to see if there are other areas where we can continue to impose a financial difficulty on the russian economy. but the real key here is europe. we know that european foreign ministers are meeting on tuesday. so far, and obviously with over 200 european citizens whose lives were lost on mh-17, the moral outrage is incredible. but we have yet to see where europe is really willing to put in some very tough sanctions. the other thing we could do is enhance our support to the ukrainian military. so far the united states has provided nonlethal assistance. we could and we d have to be very careful about this, think about ways of enhancing ukrainian military s ability to push back these separatists. heather, has anyone, in either the administration or intelligence committee, been able to get inside putin s mind?