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As in the reports, no shots fired, no violence as of yet, but there are no guarantees. you now have escalated language of surrender or action will be taken and that coming down in the last few hours, directed at troops in crimea on those bases. >> exactly. and this is a classic putin and it's classic picktorial behavior. push forward until they meet steel. they have met efforts by not only the ukraine government, but his goal is to ensure that not just crimea, but the entire ukraine remains in his spear of influence, if not, next to the russia of tomorrow. that is what's in play here. >> all r...

By russia is already being discussed heavily. >> that's a good question. putin knows that we're upset. he knows we're worried, knows that we'll do, what i would call, pin prick sanctions and other things people we ask identify won't be able to have accounts in the united states, but none of that is going to impress him. what would impress him is long-term american actions to change the equation of how we deal with the world for the last 20 years, which has been based upon the assumption that if we try hard enough, russia can be an important positive actor in the u.n. and around the world and i...

Kerry, who's on his way to the region, saying this is 19th century behavior from russia. what are you anticipating or looking to as the next critical move here? is it kerry on the ground there? >> well, unfortunately, i'm not sure how much kerry on the ground will accomplish. i think it's a show of support for ukraine, but what i'm really looking at now is, do we see violence? it's a disturbing report the ukrainian troops have been ordered to surrender and we now have a real threat of force in the air. thus far, we sort of have military presence, but there has not been shooting and that could ...

Days, and the latest developments are that russian fighter jets have been flying over the black sea. ukraine says that violates its air space, and russia is probing, testing ukraine, and testing the west's response, as well. and one foot note, russia has just decided to bring crimea and the mainland closer together, literally, it's planning a huge bridge between crimea and the russian mainland. crimea, pulling away from ukraine fast. tamron? >> thank you very much. now let me bring in james jeffrey, who served as deputy national security adviser under george w. bush. at the time, he served as ...