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The state media are going to be spinning that yarn to russians, you know, for the foreseeable future. >> steve hall, let me follow up on that with you. do you see this speech putin gave today as more for that domestic audience? or what was the message intended for the west? >> yeah, it was definitely for the domestic audience, i think, john. i would characterize it as just silly. it's crazy. i'm sure people are already doing analysis of it, and it's interesting. but it's pure theater. it's trying to win over, you know, those pockets or those parts of the russian population they're still very c...

Head of some of the military components. these are the guys watching to see how bad the war is going and how bad the social structure is fraying inside of russia because if the system starts to come apart too much you have these strong guys inside of russia who are going to think amongst themselves is it time to question whether putin is the best person to lead the country based how things are going. that's what we have to be focused on when we're talking about the problems in the military and people in the streets in moscow and other parts of russia. >> in his speech putin called it a partial...

Everyone in danger, and he may not stop at ukraine. so here is how we got to where we are this morning. yesterday russian president vladimir putin ordered troops into eastern ukraine, drawing condemnation from world leaders and the u.n. security council. the move came after putin signed a decree formally risk nicing two enclaves in ukraine's donbas region as independent, donetsk and luhansk are on the russian border and have been controlled by russian separatists since 2014. in a nationally televised speech putin described ukraine as an historic part of russia illegitimately taken from moscow....

The speech. i'm sure the polish people appreciated it. but we are the ones who have been killed right now, and we believe after the speech putin will continue killing us, and no one will do more than was done before. >> ina, i can hear the heartbreak and the frustration in your voice. i sympathize. it is something that so many of us here in the west as we've been watching this unfold, we've been wanting something to be done to stop all the atrocities there in ukraine. i'm sorry you go through this with your boyfriend, with your son, and their concerns, as well. tell me what you had hoped to he...

Following that speech putin signed a treaty with the trumped up leaders of crimea. that has to be approved by the russian parliament and the russian supreme court but that is considered simply a rubber stamp. martha: what is the reaction from where you are? >> the folks are watching with intense interest. the government declaring the treaty is in their word not recognized by this government. they blasted their russian troop incursion as an invasion. they said the ref even dim is illegal. they say crimea was, is and always will be ukrainian. some of those individual toppling the moscow-leaning ...