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Welcoming vladimir putin with open arms. >> well, ian, congratulations on that reporting. i love it when i have gotten out there and done that sort of footwork of doing your own polling. it's amazing how much you can get a real sense of confidence about people really are if you go door to door with people. thank you so much. ian williams in kiev. thank you so much for that reporting. coming up, how's putin's land grab playing stateside. defense secretary chuck hagel got an earful on capitol hill earlier today. >> mr. putin denies there are troops in russia. when mr. lavrov says today that th...

The streets jostling cars in crimea, and you know, the wrong kind of spark can really send this thing south in a hurry. so you need that sort of, you know, formality. >> he won't even use contractions when he speaks. he won't say i'm not. he will say i am not. he is very articulate. here's the question. they're trying to, in paris today, what's the diplomatic mission here, to calm down the politicians in the new kiev government? >> right. >> or to encourage them that money is coming, you don't have to give up? >> i think it's both. it's to reassure them, number one, we're with you. we understa...

Like it's primarily about making life uncomfortable, as uncomfortable as possible for the ukrainian government. and gaining more leverage than it does at this stage as a precursor to sending troops in there. so yes, in a sense, it could have been worse. but certainly, in the eyes of the ukrainian government, they have real concern that russia may try to grab parts of russian-speaking eastern ukraine, although i should add, having just been there, that even among those russian speakers, many we spoke to who feel uncomfortable about developments here in kiev, and suspicious of the influence of h...

Anti-sumettic and not fashionest. he's been within ten feet of him. >> there's a history there. they have to make sure that people have that impression. >> there he is on the right. i don't want to -- there's nothing more serious in the last century than that issue of the holocaust, but it is interesting, they don't want to be nailed. >> no, they don't. so smart of kerry, though, to take that walk through -- >> there he is again. >> -- through kiev and demonstrate the lie that putin is telling about how this chaos in the streets of kiev. there is not, in fact. >> peggy nunen gave a great tribu...

The city or some of those eastern cities, i think he might well do it. i think absent such an excuse, i think he would be hard pressed to roll the tanks, you know, up to the deneaper. >> let's talk about john kerry. he ran for president and lost a heart breaker in ohio. one of those states, and that was it. he's had to live with that. he said he's never going to run for office again. i think kerry is looking good. >> yeah, i mean, kerry is really -- i think history will judge him as a strong and effective secretary of state. the man is indefatigable. in the middle of all this, he's also trying...