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Facts on the table, because they say for doctors without borders, it's very simple. if they are going to operate in a war environment, they need to understand everyone's rules of engagement. currently they do. they say it took two years of sort of talking to set up these hospitals in afghanistan. so they say if the rules of engagement have changed on the u.s. or afghan side, they need to know about it. it needs to be on the table. then they can decide how to operate. really there is a very strong diplomatic coordinated as they call eight professional pushback from what they're hearing from gen...

How can anyone view this as anything other than the lowest moment between united states and russia in the post-cold war environment? >> david, you can get into these grand proclamations about where things are and where they aren't. the fact is we live in an extremely complicated world right now where everybody is working on ten different things simultaneously. russia is working with us in a cooperative way on the p5 plus 1. we just had important meetings in vienna. >> this is about iran's nuclear program. >> in order to try to deal with iran's nuclear program. russia was constructive and helpf...

Shooting at and thought they were shooting at one thing and it ended up being a tragic, criminal mistake. >> absolutely. a key thing in a war environment is everybody is on a hair trigger. the adrenaline is pumping. they are looking at how to score another kill. that's the mind set that you are dealing with. because you are dealing with that kind of mind set, the mistakes are going to happen. we had a similar incident involving the u.s. navy when we shot down the iran air jet in 1988 from tehran and dubai. the misidentified them as an f-14 fighter. a lot of differences. that should not have ha...

The two big takeaways that i think i want to answer that with, the first and foremost is that this is really about russia trying to flex its muscle in this post-cold war environment. now, if russia is able to do this and to support crimea, really this is just going to expand their foothold in the region as they look to expand. you know, but also, i think that folks have to remember, there is a natural gas pipeline running through ukraine. if russia has that influence, a lot of europe, a lot of our allies really rely on the ukraine to get their natural gas from the region. so a lot of old cold ...

international norm that we believe in and for us to provide strong support to continue to talk to the russians, the chinese, and others about why it is that they need to stand up on behalf of people who are being shelled mercilessly and why it is important for them to join us in a coalition, that's the most important thing that we can do right now. there may be immediate steps to discuss to make sure that humanitarian aid is being provided in a robust way and to make sure that an opposition unifies along principles that ultimately would provide a clear platform for the syrian people ...