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I don't think. again, i couldn't care less. i'm accepting. >> what that about? >> it's ridiculous. he thinks he's talking to like a montana audience maybe but this is -- i mean this is ridiculous. he's on a national stage and he's -- this is a liberal democrat? i mean, come on. does he understand the base of his own party and where his party is? >> again, it's not something you joke about. i don't make insinuations about people's sexuality. any good politician knows this. first rule of holes, stop digging >> absurd. >> john, gloria, peter, thank you to all of you. now, next, it's the tea party...

All right, we have more breaking news this morning. this morning the west preparing sanctions now that crimea has voted overwhelmingly to split from ukraine and join russia. the preliminary result, 96% of voters saying they want to become part of russian territory, but president obama, he had a message for vladimir putin, calling the russian president to warn him that the u.s. thinks that vote is illegal. the president continues to insist there will be consequences if russia accepts these results. >> the stakes are really high, and joining us right now, cnn political commentator and contributi...

And disturbed by the disappearance, not knowing what's happened to them. i've been speaking to friends, family, next of kin of all the passengers here at various hotels that they've been put up in here in kuala lumpur, and you can just imagine the psychological trauma they are going through. some of them describe it as an emotional roller coaster. what we do know about the families is that captain zaharie was married to his wife, fisa. they had three children, two sons and a daughter in her 20s who still lived at home. the sons lived away from home. one of them was married and he had a grandch...

Peter godwin is a former human rights lawyer in his native zimbab zimbabwe. he became an author. mandela wrote the forward his book. peter binart is at the university of new york. you pointed out that mandela was always different, even in prison you say everybody else wore rumpled clothes. he took pains to iron his clothes. he stood ramrod straight. he had the kind of imperial bearing. your foundation tried to train leaders in mandela's wake. do you think that the drop-off was inevitable ors had south africa taken a particularly bad spiral downward after nelson mandela? >> look, i think as a c...

That was former secretary of state colin powell dancing with forle williams and jamie foxx at a hamptons benefit this weekend. the document airing on "national geographic" last night, we saw powell, who supported the invasion of iraq as secretary of state, vealing how vice president dick cheney undercut internal discussions with the u.s. to lead the u.s. into war. >> in his speech he effectively shut down the proposal, shot down what we were getting ready to do. the u.n. couldn't do this. it was probably a waste of time. everything that you shouldn't have said in my humble judgment with respec...