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Tonight, sir. >> thank you. while washington scrambles to counter president putin, a number of experienced russia watchers are wondering why anyone is surprised by these events. many feel they have been laid out quite clearly for many years. simon marks is a former bureau chief. simon welcome. you just heard the back and forth i had with congressman engle, and john mccain and president obama. they're talking about international law. who -- does putin care about any of that? >> i think that's the real question, martha. if anything good comes out of all this. it may be a fundamental misconcept...

Their luxury cars. these people who have been feeding at the trough essentially stealing part of the corruption in this country. >> temeshenko is loaded and the dentist son of yanukovych is loaded. they're all billionaires. >> he was on the "forbes list." this country has been plundered since it became independent. >> it takes so long to create a working democracy, democratic culture in a country. i ukraine, the communists, czars, all that hell and the oligarchs now. they have nothing good in their past to look to, do they? >> also remember in their past they do have the crimian war which russ...

Going to the parliament today pulling up in their bmws and their luxury cars. these people who have been feeding at the trough essentially stealing part of the corruption in this country. >> tymoshenko is loaded and the dentist son of yanukovych is loaded. they're all billionaires. >> he was on the "forbes list." this country has been plundered since it became independent. >> it takes so long to create a working democracy, democratic culture in a country. i feel for them. ukraine, the communists, czars, all that hell and the oligarchs now. they have nothing good in their past to look to, do th...

Seen as sharing equivalents with the united states, both in terms of refusing to accept that will american democracy is a superior political system to the way in which democracy is carried out at home. >> is that a bad thing for the world or for us? >> it's certainly a bad thing for the united states. no question about that because you see a united states that is embarrassed on the global stage after the events of the past ten days. a united states whose government appears substantially weaker on the world stage than it was before. >> we were weak before the russians came along. we were weak b...

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