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Of people, really shaking up things in congress in the republican party, in the republican leadership. a lot of people thought eric cantor would be boehner's successor. and soon, by the way. and now people are saying this is a sign of the tea party resurrection. >> landmark victory, really, for the conservative movement. calling it a political earthquake. i know john berman last night was sending me furious e-mails. >> we were looking at it. i'm like, i can't go to sleep and mark preston, i know you have not been asleep. cnn's executive editor political executive editor. mark, what on earth ha...

The osc lost touch with the team last night. they still don't know their whereabouts. you may remember last month another team disappeared and ended up being held for more than a week. this happens as the new government here in kiev fresh off successful elections on sunday greatly escalated its assaults on the militants. an official telling me that it is, quote, now or never for this government to fight this insurgency. ukraine's new government is only two days old but it is already riveted with gunfire and drenched in blood. a newly aggressive ukrainian military assault on pro-russian militan...

I think he'll get a pretty strong united front in favor of what ambassador taylor was just talking about, which is an escalating set of sanctions against this act of aggression. >> well, let's still denying those are russian troops that he might have to order back to their bar racks. so it seems like we're a few steps away from that. former ambassador william taylor and charles kupchan. thank you very much for your time on this important story. >> thank you. coming up, what are the russian people thinking about the situation in ukraine? and how do we find out what the russian people are real...

We could do that in the ukraine. that is not going to start a war but tell putin we are serious. >> why do we do that? >> we are doing it because there should be a military option on the table. every one i have seen on the news media this whole last few days talks about the first thing we are going to do is take the military option off the table. oh, really? that's our greatest advantage right now. putin doesn't care about economic sanctions. he doesn't care about what the eu thinks. the only thing he respects is power and he knows that america still is more powerful than he is. >> ambassador ...

We could do that in the ukraine. that is not going to start a war but tell putin we are serious. >> why do we do that? >> we are doing it because there should be a military option on the table. every one i have seen on the news media this whole last few days talks about the first thing we are going to do is take the military option off the table. oh, really? that's our greatest advantage right now. putin doesn't care about economic sanctions. he doesn't care about what the eu thinks. the only thing he respects is power and he knows that america still is more powerful than he is. >> ambassador ...