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Through any independent media outlet that is trying to be balanced, not pro russian is being shut down or harassed. it's happening all over the place. we can't just sit back and allow this to happen. if you want to buy in to president obama's philosophy that either we go to war or we ignore a crisis, which i don't, i think there's a lot that you can do in the middle. that information parity, we can win this argument. this is an argument we should be relishing. it's about capitalism, about human rights, about greater freedom. this is what the people are hungry for and we should be going in and ...

Ward and her administration is shutting down the radio program in eastern europe. we should be surging the funding right now and she just is sitting back and talking on the upper east side of new york about information parity. somebody needs to tell the ambassador when you're speaking in washington or upper east side of new york, ukrainians are not hearing you. we need to speak in their language right in the region. gregg: what's behind that? >> well, there's been this long debate, like david was saying, who runs voice of america, that they want to switch to the internet and that's all they wa...

Of the budget cuts, why do you think it's important still today? >> well, i think we just have seen president vladmir putin cutting the free media throughout crimea and it's clear he's on the offense. eastern europeans are very nervous. we've seen reports that those in the balkans are extremely nervous about the growing threat from russia and from others. we need to have information parity. there needs to be a way we can ensure that the debate is really saturating the public so that the publics within eastern europe are getting both sides of the argument. we need to have a debate about free ma...

Need to have this pro free market capitalism human rights debate anymore and i think that's really a tragedy. we're going to see the balkans slip away. we really have to engage in this debate and it's very important for congress to go forward and say, you know what, we don't think the fight is over in eastern europe, let's pour more money into having this debate. we can win this debate. this is ours to win. >> do you think what congress and the president has worked on so far, sanctions, talking about restricting travel, financial transactions of key folks involved in the dispute, will it work ...