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Our allies, strengthen our military. >> john mccain wants a number of russian officials, presumably anybody part of the action, barred from the country which bars people who commit human rights abuses from entering the u.s. a law mr. obama signed into law in 2012. >> john buss is with us here on the deck. executive businessed it for of "the wall street journal" warm. i suppose there are options for president obama. none seem good. >> you don't hear the republican leadership or the democratic leadership talking about any kind of military intervention by the united states. that's also reflecting...

21 minutes past the hour. more on the ongoing crisis near ukraine, where energy is playing a major role in this standoff with russia. according to unu.s. state department official there are now discussions at high levels on how to use american national gas -- i should say natural gas to gain some leverage. researchers say russia's supply is 30% of europe's natural gas and half of it flows through pipelines right under ukraine in washington lawmakers are pushing for the united states to start exporting natural gas to europe. they say that could convince european nations to toughen their stances...

Because there's likely to be fighting and bloodshed. at the end of the day some of this is going to speak to macro considerations, longer term. does europe want to be as dependent upon russian energy? that gas pipeline going through ukraine, providing a huge amount of the heating fuel for western europe. is the united states going to think differently about exporting oil, about exporting more gas in the future to supply our allies abroad. >> john buss, live with us. thank you very much. >> eninvestors reacting reactina big way. causes chaos. early trading dow was down a couple hundred points. ...