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Whole town, washington, especially those on capitol hill, republicans and democrats, are talking 24 hours a day, it seems, to the press background, on the record, everyone's talking about what's going on inside of this white house. so you may have a meeting where you put phones on the table in the communications office and try to plug the leaks but this is a bigger ship than that. >> thank you, robert costa, simon marks and greg miller. up next, democrats pick their path forward and the bernie sanders wing falls short again. can the new party chairman, tom perez, unite democrats to defeat tr...

Greg miller covers the intelligence community for the "washington post." right on this story. simon marks is a chief correspondent with "feature story news." i want to go to robert, i'm watching poor sean spicer on the nanny cam basically being watched every minute by the president. the president clearly wants spicer and priebus to tell top intelligence officials to squash this. there's no secrets. he's trying to shut down any interests in his russian relations such as they were. >> not only a message to the media, a message to the congressional republicans. nunes from california certainly a m...

With a combination of sanctions and a diplomatic way out of ukraine. but the russians don't seem to be looking for a way out. president putin claims the military action is protecting the minority ethnic russian population. some russian protesters seen here in this video beating up a pro-ukrainian protester. others have been tearing down ukrainian flags and raising the flag of the russian federation. simon, do you agree that this could be the most important foreign policy decision president obama will make thus far in his presidency? >> oh, absolutely, gretchen. i think there's no question this...

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...

Spectrum now, who are saying you've just got to get much tougher. there's a whole range of options out there that stop short of putting military boots on the ground in ukraine. >> i want to get through some of those, simon. the u.s. -- you know, should they attend the g-8? should they say russia can't be a part of the g-8? should they move u.s. and nato forces into poland? should they set up anti-ballistic missiles in poland, which obama scuttled in 2009? these are just some of the options in front of him. >> there are a range of options ut there. i think moving troops into poland would be upp...