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American news media. the coverage of russia and ukraine including putin. he's joining me along with christi christiane amanpour and newt gingrich. let's talk about your powerful article. what's wrong with the way that mainstream american media has covered putin? >> well, let's put it like this. what people are witnessing right now, we're watching the descent of a new cold war divide in europe. this time, not in berlin but right on russia's borders in ukraine. that's going to affect adverse ree our kids and our grandkids for decades to come and the american explanation, the american media polit...

It took two to tango and that's absolutely true. i'm pushing back against the american narrative. the long story is -- and i'll give it to you short -- in the 1990s, president clinton decided to expand nato towards russia. russia is now on nato's borders. that's a military alliance. to make the short story in the foreground, in november, when this current crisis in ukraine began, putin said to washington and to brussels, to the european union, why are you forcing ukraine to choose between russia and the west? why don't we do a joint economic aid to ukraine and our answer was no, it's either/or...

Russian forces conduct war games with president putin looking on in the midst of the most dire crisis in europe since the end of the cold war. we're following the breaking news in ukraine. russia's ambassador to the u.n. says ukraine's ousted president has sent a letter to putin askle him to use military force to restore law and order in his country. russian forces are strengthening their grip in the crimea region where ukrainian officials say they've declared war. up to 12 trucks of russian troops just crossed into an eastern crimean city from russia. sources inside ukraine confirm russian fo...

Russian and they talk in german, putin was the head of the kgb in dresden under the old soviet union. he has done things to angela merkel in terms of their dialogue that she just hates. and she feels taken advantage of, her country, by this action, but she doesn't know what to do. >> jim sciutto, you know, this one argument that's being made, especially the russians are making it, is that yanukovych, the ousted president, if you will, of ukraine, he was democratically elected by the people of ukraine. how does this fit? >> it's a difficult policy question for the obama administration. this is ...

Unpredictable. what makes vladimir putin tick? our own brian todd has been taking a closer look. brian? >> wolf, that is such a crucial question right now because we're all trying to figure out what vladimir putin is going to do next. at the moment, putin is setting the pace. the rest of the world is reacting and that seems to be just the way he likes it. he's on the scene as his army rehearses for war. the world is hanging on to scenes like this, wondering what could be next. what's inside vladimir putin's mind. angela merkel offered her own assessment. she said she wasn't sure he was in touc...