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After the state's high court ruled men had a legal right to take pictures, photos and video, up women's skirts. pretty much any time, and anywhere, they saw fit. hello, everyone. good to have you with us. it's friday, march 7th. welcome to "legal view" i'm ashleigh banfield. let's start here, watching some of the real dramatic comings and goings in the ukraine crisis and a new threat that is quite literally chilling. the russian natural gas company is warning that it may cut off the supplies to its once-friendly neighbor if ukraine's new pro western government cannot pay almost $2 billion in...

I think putin may have grabbed a poison talice here. if he annexes crimea, then ukraine will have a million fewer pro russian voters in its elections. it will be more pro western. meanwhile, it will have antagonized so many ukrainians with what has happened. he will have to subsidize crimea as he's already subsidized bits of muldova and georgia that he grabbed. ukraines look over the border saying i want that. you're going to have russians i hope looking west into ukraine saying that's what i want. >> i wish we had more time tonight on this. thank you both for joining me tonight. coming up, ch...

But we got an interesting statement from putin's spokesman this morning. in it, the spokesman says despite trying to explain russia's position, quote, we have hit a wall of no understanding. the spokesman added, it is rather sad and what is worse is that it is very bad from the point of view of possible repercussions. nbc's jim maceda has more on what this spokesman was trying to say from moscow. >> reporter: hi, chuck. well, kremlin watchers tell us putin is genuinely frustrated by the apparent gulf between his position on ukraine and obama's. putin wouldn't understand why after so much talki...

Corruption, and they -- and kind of thuggish. and naturally they want to look west sds ward. a i think putin may have grabbed a poison talice here. if he annexes crimea, then ukraine will have a million fewer pro russian voters in its elections. it will be more pro western. meanwhile, it will have antagonized so many ukrainians with what has happened. he will have to subsidize crimea as he's already subsidized bits of muldova and georgia that he grabbed. ukraines look over the border saying i want that. you're going to have russians i hope looking west into ukraine saying that's what i want. >...

At this point. but one other thing. republicans are also arguing that putin's actions are tied to an appearance of weakness from the white house. take a listen. >> the permissive environment that we have created through this reset thinking that someone like putin reacts to warmth and charm and reach out when what he really reacts to is weakness and i think he has seen that in our foreign policy efforts over the course of this last year. >> that is the ranking republican on the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker. he listed action mis des in dea with syria. i wanted to give you an op...