All, swrjulia, putin is beginni to blink a little bit, maybe he overreached in ukraine? i don t think he is. i thing he s stepping back and giving the appearance of blinking, but really the violence, the chaos, uncertainty in eastern ukraine continues. the flow of soldiers, be they officially employed by russia or just renegades and war junkies, is continuing over the border with ukraine. that s what he h wawants and wa to use this as leverage so that the eu and nato don t accept ukraine in there. i ll leave you guys a little clip. jimmy kimmel having some fun last night on tv about these two leaders. watch this. fitness experts have been criticizing the president s form. true. he s even taking it on the chin for foreign leaders. tired of wimpy workouts that leave you scrawny like little trig that s crushed beneath paws of the great bear? it s time to putin-cise.
His colleagues and friends, one of his friends, cnn s pet peter bergen paid tribute to him last night. tim was a very empathetic person. he was interested in showing war as it is, like a lot of great war photographers. unfortunately, to show war as it is, you have to take considerable risks. there are sort of war junkies who will tell you about all the places they ve been. right. tim was not of that ilk. he didn t rejoice in war. he was a very modest individual, humble. and we also had a chance in the last hour to speak to the best friend of chris hondros. he s the american photographer of getty images who also died of severe brain trauma hours after the same attack. he covered the hot spots going to places like kosovo, iran and afghanistan. getty remembered him this way. chris never shied away from the front line and having covered the world s major conflicts
First, i want to extend to you our condolences. you wrote beautifully about him, and we know he covered some of the places he s lived where liberia, afghanistan, in darfur and then libya. what drove him to spend time in the most dangerous places on earth? i think tim is a very empathetic person. he was interested in showing war as it is, like a lot of great war photographers. unfortunately, to show war as it is, you have to take considerable risks which is what tim had done repeatedly when he was in afghanistan, for instance, in the korengal valley, obviously the most dang place in afghanistan, when he was shooting there, he was caught in a firefight, broke his leg, had to be medevaced out, but continued to work on the film which then of course was nominated for the oscar. sounded pretty brave also. yeah, but also very modest guy. this was not a guy. there were sort of war junkies who will tell you about the places they have gone. tim was not of that ilk.