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president biden has arrived in the republic of ireland. we are going to show you some pictures of his visit now. this was him visiting dundalk, in county louth, the home county of his ancestors. thousands of people came out to greet him, and he paid tribute to his irish heritage and met distant relatives. he's back in dulblin now, and tomorrow he'll go to county mayo. earlier, he was in northern ireland, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement, the deal that brought an end to decades of violence in the region. this trip though, comes at a time of political dead...

The united states are medling in his backyard and this is his area and that it would be like russia trying to go to cuba or go someplace in our hemisphere. the united states is pointing to treaties and the basic reason itself for the naval base in crimea. all of these documents, various organizations, osce, a lot of alphabets but they are basically organizations that russia is part of. not nato but part of the other organizations and that he is a signatory and he, representing russia is a signatuorsignatory. >> have theyish issued what we're going to do to vladimir putin because of this action...

Would vote against the russian influence. how does he grab a country against its will in 2014? >> well, i don't think at the end of the day they makes the cal cue husband for going for all of ukraine. he's in crimea. the next question is does he look to go into eastern ukraine that has russian sympathies there and may find it more governable as well as desirable in terms of not taking all of ukraine, all of its economic consequences and all of unrest that you clearly state would happen if he would try to do it. at the end of the day he's looking to see what the world is going to respond. this ...

He sees a return of the demise of what was the soviet union and wants to extend its influence territorial and otherwise. crimea important because of the base there and the access it gives the russians to the entire region and to the sea. and but at the end of the day, i think we have to remind president putin of his own remarks six months ago in an op i have ed in the new york times speaking about syria, we have to stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political sentiment. that's appropriate now. his own language has been to be reminded. >> how cou...

And those in ukraine is it's more of him trying to mislead the world and deny reality because there's no question those are russian troops. so what the u.s. is trying to do is prevent putin from turning this operational control of crimea into a permanent state of division in ukraine. they are very concerned that unless putin is pushed back, not militarily but pushed back by economic pressure, that this will end up being putin keeping crimea, be russian speaking and russian supporting part of ukraine and ukraine will be divided. this is clearly not working the way the u.s. and allies had hoped ...