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Crimea hasn't been overturned? >> first of all, i think an important difference now today is that crimea happened very quickly. the president led to russia after protests against his rule and quickly in response vladimir putin moved it to claim russia. so we were responding to an event that didn't happen. i think what the biden's group is doing differently is that there is a clear image that is buildup on the border of ukraine. they're trying to get ahead of it. they're trying to signal their consequences in advance in this window of time that exist before potential invasion. i think when you ...

The course of this trip additional multi lateral sanctions will be addressed pertaining to north korea? and second question i have has to do with china. in your view, general, are they doing enough to apply pressure on the north korean government? >> so, on those questions, what you've seen is a concerted effort to isolate north korea economically. and that's been combined with major diplomatic effort that asks all countries to do more. there is tremendous momentum behind that now. we have seen countries across the indo-pacific region but globally doing more to expel the in effect north korea ...

>> let's talk about that. if you're germany, if you're britain, you're more concerned about putting sanctions on russia as you mentioned because of the economic ties. a lot of gas needs in europe are fulfilled by russia. do you think there's any chance that the british and the germans would sign on to meaningful sanctions against the russians or do you think we would see what we saw in 2008 when it came to georgia? >> sure. the best sanctions are multi lateral sanctions, but of course the russians care much more about their economic reeglation with europe than they do about their economic rela...

And believe me, the united states portion of those sanctions in terms of the impact on the iranian economy is minimal. the reason it's effective is because the president has been able to build a broad multi lateral sanctions regime against iran. if that weakens because our allies say the united states is not interested in a diplomatic solution, then the game is up. then iran both gets relief from sanctions from the international community and can continue its nuclear enrichment capabilities. so again, critics need to say compared to what. and if their answer is that we should use military forc...

Named amano who has what he calls a more balanced view and has major concerns about iran. why am i saying this? i think the real test will be what the un will do. i think it's good news chinese premier hu is coming here in two weeks to a terrorism summit with 45 countries. hopefully that will be a chance for him and president obama to talk about the un where china and russia's support for multi lateral sanctions is key. congress is on board with strong debilitating sanctions on a bipartisan basis. the u.s. will be there. but it has to be multi lateral to be truly debilitating. by the way, yeme...