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Support, certainly from journalists, glen greenwald. he is the journalist that broke the story on edward snowden and the nsa spying claims. i want to read a quote that he put up, which is, abbey martin, remarkably demonstrated what journalist independence means by ending her program with a clever and unapologetic denunciation of the russian action in ukraine. i can tell you that the people here certainly would not agree with what abbey martin said. i'm outside the government building. the russian flag is flying next to the crimean flag. there is a small rally happening behind us. these people ...

At war for the last 13 years. as we end our second war, our sec w second war of the last decade, our longest ever. this budget adapts to new realities and physical restraints while preparing for the future. >> the defense secretary, chuck hagel, now outlining the president's new budget for the department of defense. his own budget was released last week. he is making the case and also speaking out about the crisis in ukraine. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. the strong statement from chuck hagel. you just heard him outline...

Between nato and the russian alliance and it's the first public contact between the two groups since russian forces moved into the crimean peninsula last week. we go to brussels for the site of today's meeting. who called for this meeting, specifically? >> reporter: hi, jake. the meeting was called for by nato secretary-general. it's a good sign russia has agreed to sit down with all 28 nato ambassadors. meeting happening in a couple of hours from now. very much a part of nato's three track approach towards dealing with this crisis. the first being declaring solidarity, reaffirming solidarity ...

That the u.s. and other countries are trying to give to russia to address their concerns that they acknowledge are legitimate in ukraine, they acknowledge russia has a lot of interests particularly in the crimea. what they want is for russia to encourage international monday fors into crimea, into eastern ukraine to check out what's going on and that could be the basis for talks. the french, the uk, u.s. hoping to get sergei lavrov the russian foreign minister and ukrainian foreign minister in the same room this afternoon, twin hour to see if they could start to talk about a diplomatic process...

Clinton would make that comparison but what are you getting? what kind of reaction? >> reporter: right now, i'm trying to get some reaction from her camp. specifically, there is none. they are not commenting. if you invoke nazi germany and adolf hitler, it is like the third rail of rhetoric. it gets so much attention. whatever hillary clinton's opinions are, about putin, this sort of increases the volume, if you will. we heard her last week, in florida, not on camera but talking about putin. this was before the invasion of the crimean peninsula. she likened him to czars. she likened him to com...