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Europe and america are united in our support of the ukrainian government and the ukrainian people. we're united in imposing a cost on russia for its actions so far. >> welcome back to "hardball." that's president obama today in the netherlands where he's working to solidify european resolve to punish russia's vladimir putin for seizing crimea. toward that end, the leaders of what is now the g-7 late today said the russia has been suspended from what had been the g-8 because of its activities in ukraine. and in today's "new york times" former ambassador to russia michael mcfaul lays out what we...

♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ europe and america are united in our support of the ukrainian government and the ukrainian people. we're united in imposing a cost on russia for its actions so far. >> welcome back to "hardball." that's president obama today in the netherlands where he's working to solidify european resolve to punish russia's vladimir putin for seizing crimea. toward that end, the leaders of what is now the g-7 late today said the russia has been suspended from what had been the g-8 because of its activities in ukraine. and in today's "new york times" former ambassador to russia m...

There is a possibility that it will get worst in the ukraine. >> your father grew up in ukraine, you were in ukraine yourself in 2004 during the orange revolution. let me ask you this question, i read in a "new york times" letter today, which is putting aside the military action that's gone on this week that's outraged everybody. is there a good common sense argument that crimea and indeed eastern ukraine ought to be part of russia? >> only in the sense that the crimeans and many eastern ukrainians are russian speakers, they're sympathetic to russia, they have a russian background. there is th...

Thuggish in the way he's dealing with it? >> if i was his advisor, i would say, look, vladimir, yes it would be a terrible tragedy if we were to lose ukraine, part of our ancestral origins as russian people a buffer between us and the west, a buffer between us and nato. but if we go ahead and seize crimea, this will be bad for russia, this is bad for our own interests. we will have to be subsidizing crimea forever, we will be repelling ukraine into the arms of the west, just as surely as brezhnev propelled czechoslovakia by invading in 1968. so this is not good for our national reputation, it'...

I'm here with christoph and his thoughts on hillary clinton's -- activities of hitler in the second world war an -- >> in a very narrow sensecy to that led to world war ii and he did it on the grounds that he was protecting ethnic germans, so there is some mild parallel there. but the significant is that it led to the invasion of poland, the invasion of france and led to a world war. i don't think anybody thinks that putin is about to unleash a new world war by seizing crimea,