all this, i'm sure you have an app on your phone. >> reporter: not bad, katy, you made the weather bearable. jeanne moss, cnn, new york. >> that's my favorite part, that koala bear, he's sitting there going -- anderson cooper starts now. good evening, everyone, we are live from kiev, ukraine today, dramatic developments on the ground and also fast moving diplomatic developments here in kiev, also in europe and the united states. we want to get to all of that in the hour ahead. this is one of the main roads going down into independence square. as you can see, there are barricades still all in place. this is very much still an active site of protest. there are still protesters here who are camped out. you can see some of them down there huddled around a fire, trying to stay warm.

but this is also very much a shrine, a memorial to those who died here. more than 80 people died here, a little bit more than a week and a half ago. i want to show you just one of many shrines all throughout this square, five people died right here on this spot and they are memorialized here. you can see their photographs pasted here, their names, some of the personal information. people have placed rosaries. and if you're wondering what these are, these are actually shields, riot police shields and some of them are makeshift shields that the protesters used to hide behind to try to save themselv themselves from snipers bullets. there's all these images drawn by children of the protests, of the situation here in ukraine. this is very much a shrine to those who have died as well as an active protest site and the protesters, as we talked about last night, say they are going

to say here until real change has come to the new government here in kiev. there are late developments to tell you about tonight, we're getting early indications from inside sources about how spontaneous the russian incursion was, also developments on the diplomatic front, counter threats from moscow, about economic sanctions to moscow, from the u.n. hillary clinton comparing putin's actions to hitler's actions. on a day when talking between all the parties began in ernest, but also today, tempers stayed high. the crisis in crimea spilled over into the states wednesday, and anti-russian protest. the ukrainian police eventually step in to keep the peace.

tense and dangerous movements from the u.n. envoy, his convoy surrounded by pro russian --- >> i'm in the coffee shop waiting for someone somebody to get me out of here. >> the gunmen surrounded the shop with serry inside. he was eventually given safe passage outside and abandon his mission and head to the airport. and at sea near crimea's capital, with patience wearing thin, ukraine's active prime minister channels a cold war president, not from russia, but from the u.s. >> my key demand to russian president and russian government, immediately pull back your military. do not invade ukraine. my message to president putin is as follows.

mr. putin, tear down this wall. >> meanwhile russia's foreign minister continued to post putin's message from yesterday. >> translator: self-defense forces created by the crimeian residents as the military of the black sea fleet, they are on their own bases. >> never mind the fact that only days ago, russian's foreign ministry admitted troops were in crimea. and secretary of state john kerry met with ravlov a and the foreign minister in the hopes he could get them both to the table. russia refused. >> russia made a choice and we have clearly stated that we believe it is the wrong choice to move troops into crimea, russia can now choose to deescalate this situation and we are committed to working with

russia and together with our friends and allies in an effort to provide a way for this entire situation to find the road to deescalation. >> there is breaking news tonight. we're learning exactly how the russian invasion came together. just pieces of information starting to form a clearer picture, whether there was a lot of advanced planning or whether the plan was launched really on the fly by russia, implications for u.s. intelligence agencies which are being slammed in some quarters for being caught offguard, joining us is robert sciuto and bob bayer. so jim, you're learning new information about when vladimir putin decided to move into crimea, what do you know? >> reporter: speaking to intelligence officials as well as other officials who read these reports last week, these intel jenligence assessments oft was going to happen and what was likely to happen, there are indications that there was not a vastly premeditated decision by

vladimir putin to take action on the ground that's why it was hard to predict. he's an unpredictable character, he's done these sort of things before, last minute decisions, and that made it difficult for them to say he was definitely going to act and when was he going to act and indeed he did and caught many offguard. >> over the last days or so, there's been several members of congress who have been very critical of the cia asking why didn't the cia or the united states know that putin was going to responsibility militarily until he had already done it. did this last-minute decision explain why the u.s. didn't know what was going on or as you ski this, was this a failure of intelligence? >> i see a failure of intelligence, putin invaded

georgia in 2008. he's threatened to protect russians in the near abroad as it's called. it was perfectly logically act for him to take once the ukraine started to go under. i think that should have been predicted. i think there should have been a heads up to the state department as well as the white house. get somebody to moscow, talk him out of this. i think you can only look at this as a failure. you look at the russians are insist tonigent on protecting russians. as it deteriorated, we should have known what he was going to do. >> senator dianne feinstein saying the u.s. has got to deploy its resources better in terms of intelligence. do you agree with that? i mean there are those that say that u.s. intelligence capabilities toward russia have sort of atrophied since so much

focus is now on fighting terror? >> i saw it myself atrophy as the wall came down in the '90s, we were told to lay off russia, it was affect threat, we were going to cooperate with the russians. i was in a station overseas, we unplugged the telephone taps and then comes 9/11 and we take all of our intelligence sources and put them in iraq. atrophy is not the word for it it--with putin clearly intended to re-establish the russian empire in some form, i think we're going to look at this at a mistake as this continues. >> wow, a it's really fascinating. i know the cia released a statement saying they had been updating policymakers with different scenarios, including one similar to one that's going on now in crimea.

what are officials saying? >> keep in mind this is happening as they're taking criticism from mike rogers, -- releasing a fairly impressive amount of detail as to what was in those reports, those assessments coming through last week. i have been told by officials that those reports included multiple tools that putin had at his disposal, including taking kroops out of crimea and deploying them inside sovereign territory and using some of these militias, some of these unofficial, nonuniformed troops. but let me give you a public statement that just came from the director of national intelligence, shawn turner a spokesman there, pushing back saying on february 26, for

example, the ic warned that crimea was a flash point for return shank-ukraine military conflict, it clearly stated that the russian military was likely making preparations for contingency in crimea. they listed a number of these scenarios a and they listed things like what we have seen with the militias and so on. and the question is, could they say when that would happen? and clearly they couldn't tell and could not accurately tell when it would happen. >> right, jim sciuto. stick around, we're going to come back to you shortly. i want to take a look at more of what motivates putin with steven hadley who has sat across the table from him on a number of occasions. former cnn moscow bureau chief jill daulterity.

ben, let me start off with you, in terms of what you saw on the ground today, what happened? >> we were outside, anderson, the headquarters of the ukrainian navy where really there's another one of these standoffs going on but we really saw the personal cost. we spoke to the wives of some of were trying to sneak food into the headquarters. its surrounded by not only these men in green, russian forces, but also these irregulars, what they call themselves a civil defense group, civilians, pro russian civilians and it was really a game of cat and mouse all day long as women would try to sneak up to windows and shove food through it. others we saw one woman with, looked like her 2-year-old daughter who tried to go up to

the front gate and who sort of shouted back, being called a o provocate provocateaur. a tense situation, and for many on a personal level as they try to keep in touch with their loved ones inside these military installations but can't get through. we saw the red cross try to get into the navy headquarters with medicine, with food, with water and they were stopped, anderson. >> and then the newly installed pro russian prime minister of crimea told cnn today that the descriptions on the ground in crimea have been overblown and

the people of crimea controlling the situation themselves. is there truth to that? >> i have to say it's not a situation of chaos or disorder. in fact, outside of those areas around the military bases, it's amazing how normal life appear to be. people are going out, restaurants, bars, life really does appear to be normal, except around these military installations. we were at another navy installation by the sea not far from here, and there were russians right across the street from the main gate of that navy base, but they were sort of hidden away. so if you drove up you wouldn't realize that there was a contingent of men in green, russians, whatever you want to call them, right across the street.

meanwhile, however families were coming up, wives were coming up with food, with cigarettes, with drinks for their loved ones inside. so there are real pockets of tension. >> ben, be careful, thank you for joining us tonight. i want to dig deeper into how these negotiations play out with jill dougherty. also joining us is former u.n. ambassador bill richardson. ambassador, thanks very much for being with us. i'm here on the ground with jill dougherty. in his meeting with foreign ministers around the world, secretary of state john kerry emphasized the importance of resolving this through dialogue. do you believe that dialogue and diplomacy will work in russia? and is that a positive sign or did not much actually get

accomplished today? >> it's a positive sign, the fact that you had all the foreign ministers in one room, especially ukraine and russia, although russia refused to talk directly with a ukrainian. what needs to happen is for the russians to see, for lavrov to see that germany is behind our efforts, that france, especially the members of the security council, france, germany, the united states, that they're united, that this is a real, coordinated effort. but getting people together in a room to diffuse tension is important. so i think it was an important step, especially if the germans were there, because they're the strongest economic country in europe and they're the country with the most natural gas energy ties to russia. so if they start slipping away and not join the sanctions or the pressure, then russia is almost home free when it comes to europe.

>> ambassador richardson, you've done a lot of negotiating, obviously. as you look at this situation, do you feel that there's a planned strategic aprooich proas there an impression of an ad hoc nature on the decision making by putin? >> i think, jill, because putin is so unpredictable, because the russians are so all over the place on their intentions, it has to almost be ad hoc. one of the bad sides of today is the u.n. envoy literally being expelled, pushed out of crimea, if a solution is going to involve human rights monitors and observers, that's not a good sign and it sort of throws away the argument that the rush a sha -- russian military there is

self-defense forces. somebody must have told them to go hard on that u.n. envoy, i don't think it was high officials like putin, but that's not a good sign. so it has to be ad hoc. i think the goals have to be clear, deescalate the conflict. get ukraine and russia to talk to each other. find ways to put summon fors and human rights observers there. but most importantly, put the pressure on putin that the sanctions are going to happen, that there's going to be diplomatic isolation. otherwise he's going to call our bluff and be more aggressive. >> secretary kerry today said that he had had no intentions that lavrov the russian foreign minister would meet with the ukrainie iaian foreign minister. there must have been some hope that they would actually meet. >> but they're still not.

they're saying that they will not talk to them and that's one of the key problems because they still say that this is an illegitimate regime and therefore they can't do anything, so you have to find a way of breaking through. kerry and lavrov i believe are going to meet again tomorrow. lavrov goes back, he has to talk to pugh tictiputin. it has to come from putin. >> is that how it works, ambassador? what do you anticipate the next step being? >> the next step is, yes, i think jill is right, he has to get an okay from putin. but lavr ov -- by the way, his english is impeccable. he a's detail oriented, he's

tough, he knows america well, he knows when we're serious and i think the fact that there is a very strong reaction in the american government lavrov knows and hopefully he will tell putin, we have to deescalate. i think it's a very tense situation and we have to keep the pressure on and i think in europe, germany is the key, france and britain following with germany, taking a stronger lead i think is really very important. >> tense indeed, bill richardson, glad to have you on the program. next on our russian control network, the tv network, one

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welcome back to our coverage of the crisis in ukraine. her name is liz wall, she's an american who works in the russian today america's washington bureau. she accused her employer of glossing over the actions of vladimir putin in crimea and she quit on the air. >> i cannot be part of a network funded by the russian government that whitewashes the actions of

putin. i'm proud to be an american and believe in disseminating the truth and that is why after this newscast, i'm resigning. >> liz wall joins us now in her first interview after quittiquitting. obviously your announcement stunned a lot of people. you've been working there for 2 1/2 years, clearly you're familiar with the perspective of r.t. america, and the kind of stories they put on the air. so why today? >> why today? i think a that's a good question. i think the coverage, as we're in this diplomatic standoff and during the escalation of this crisis in crimea, i think the propaganda nature of r.t. came out in full force. today, for example, i had an interview with ron paul. the only question that i asked,

i asked many questions, i asked about the russian intervention, you know, he has a very anti-intervention approach. i asked him in the wake of escalation by the russian military how long, you know, how should we respond to this, how should the u.s. respond to this? and that question was cut out of the interview. there was another segment today, it was a news package from one of our correspondents that painted the opposition over there in the ukraine as having neonazi elements. i think that's dangerous when you have a new government instability over there and i'm sure there are in fact neo nazi elements, but to portray the entire opposition as being part of this right wing extremist group is going along with the

narrative. that vladimir putin wants to go along with. >> was this something you had always felt pressure? i mean how does it work in r.t.? i mean where do directions come from? >> the direction comes from management and i think -- there a's a lot of young people that work there, some people inexperienced and i think they're eager to please management. there's a form of self-censorship that you learn, eventually you learn what management likes, what management dislikes. today, especially with the heightened situation in crimea, overtly questions are being written, very, very loaded questions, questions basically to paint the picture and to present the putin perspective in all of this. and i just think, i mean i would hope as a reporter and in life,

you should always seek the truth, spread the truth, disseminate the truth and what's clear is what's happening right now amid this crisis is that r.t. is not about the truth. it's about promoting a putinist agenda a and i can tell you firsthand, it's also about bashing america and i kind of cited some of my back ground, where i came from and why i am proud to be an american. in recent days, i have been suffering from a lot of cognitive disdense and felt that i could no longer work here and go on television and tell the american people that this is what's happening and how to pose as news. >> i want to bring in jill who's at harvard-kennedy school of government. >> i just wanted to ask u what is happening right now with you?

have there been repercussions and how is r.t. going to explain this? because there was a previous woman who said some things about the conflict, abby martin and r.t. said, all anchors can express their views freely, have you had any reaction from the management? >> well, it's all happening very quickly. this happened just a couple of hours ago, i haven't seen the official response, i kind of saw on twitter before i went on today that they said that i'm doing this as a -- for personal gain, which couldn't be farther from the south. i actually didn't speak on this for a while for fear of repercussion. i don't know how they intend to retalla retaliate against me.

i have gotten, on social media j a really supportive response. that's been comforting for me. in terms of how they're going to deal with this, i don't know. >> i'm sorry, there's a delay, so i don't mean to be talking over you. you talk about management and pressure from management and even self-censorship. i know there are a lot of young americans who work there and r.t. bills itself as questioning authority, which is clearly their markets strategy, are they russian? >> management is russian, yes. middle management, they are american and their role is to make sure -- it's kind of part of that censorship role to make sure we're in line, to make sure ultimately the narrative that the russian, you know, the guy calling the shots ultimately, we're base in the moscow, funded by the russian government. they kind of make sure that the

narrative is delivered. in one way or another. >> right. well, liz, i appreciate you speaking on the program tonight. thank you very much. i know it's probably been a surreal and a fast moving day for you. i appreciate your time. as jill mentioned, her former colleague abby martin also spoke out on the air, she is on piers morgan live at the top of the hour. where does crimea fit into vladimir putin's long-term view of russia? we'll look at that ahead. designed for women's health concerns as we age. with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day women's 50+. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. lots of tablets... one pill. you decide.

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earlier in the program you heard two gusts discussing whether putin has a long-term game plan or whether he's more instinctual in the way he plans for events. >> translator: first of all and it should be acknowledged and i have spoken of this before, that the collapse of the soviet union was the greatest geo political catastrophe of the century. >> that was nearly nine years ago, the question is what are his ambitions now geographica y geographically. steven hadley saw from the white house saw mr. putin bring a piece of the soef -- there's this belief among some, yourself included that what's happening in ukraine is part of a larger attempt by president vladimir putin to dig in against the west. tell us exactly what you're talking about and why.

how do you see it? >> he's trying to build a series of institutions that in some sense mirror the institutions in the west. he's got a thing called the eurasian union. he's got a security organization sort of based on nato. he wants to rebuild not a soviet empire, but a russian empire. and you can see how far he's gone so far. >> you have three countries, kazakhstan, russia and -- we were talking earlier about how he's pulling armenia here, and kirgustan closer, they're not in it yet, but they're coming closer. >> they're putting a lot of pressure on it. armenia had an association agreement with the eu. after three and a half hours in

moscow, putin said we're going to go with the eu. >> there's diplomatic pressure, there's financial pressure. >> but the key to making this work is ukraine, with ukraine because of its historical ties to russia, because of its industry, because of its population, with ukraine, this begins to look like a condensing empire. without it, it's still a bit player, it's never going to rival the west. >> i heard ukraine means buffer in the language that the general told me earlier. it is a buffer, literally and figuratively, this gives them a buffer against all these nato allies here? >> he would like to have ukraine join this union. there's no question about it. he's misplayed it. his man in ukraine did not

deliver and the ukrainians have made ill clet clear they want t west. take crimea, what does that do? it creates a territorial dispute between ukraine and russia. because of that territorial dispute, the european countries will be reluctant to take into the eu, to take into a nato, a country that has a territorial dispute with russia. so it freezes these countries between east and west, buys him time so over the long-term, he can continue his persuasion and his blackmail to try to bring them east rather than west. >> i'm glad you brought countries with territorial disputes. so here's another one, georgia, bring up the map there, so you can see that, georgia, the last country he invaded in 2008. you have these two provinces which are now under russian control. it makes it harder for georgia

to become a nato-eu member? >> exactly. >> do you think vladimir putin sees this as a zero sum game? >> he does see it as a zero sum game and that is part of the problem. we not headed, i don't think for a new cold war. but we also do not want to be headed for a redivision of europe. you're either on one side or the other. the trick in ukraine is one, we need to help the ukraine new government succeed, stabilize it economically, have it be able to bring a secure, positive future for their people. we have got to take steps to deter putin from trying to run this play again. but what would be the optimal outcome is that the ukrainian people are free to choose to come into eu, free to come into nato, but not in a way that severs the economic and

historical ties to russia. try to turn it into a game that ukraine can move west without having to sever its sighs to ti east. >> and that's certainly something that secretary of state kerry when he was here in ukraine kept trying to emphasize, the relationship between the ukraine and russia, the historic ties there, ties that according to kerry will continue, to kind of mollify russia on that front. up next, hillary clinton clarifying her comments comparing what vladimir putin has done to hilt. 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. t. l. e. r. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage.

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vladimir putin's actions to hitlers in the run up to world war ii. hillary clinton said putin is using the same type of justification for invading neighboring counties. >> today putin basically said in a long press conference is that all i want to do is protect the rights of the minority, and he's been on a campaign to give everybody who has any russian connection, there are a lot of retired russian military in crimea, he's given them all russian passports. now if this sounds familiar, this is what hitler did back in the 30s. >> clinton calarified and said that she's not necessarily making a comparison between the two. but putin's actions are reminiscent of hitler's actions

in that he's trying to protect the minorities. marsha, hillary clinton's comparison of actions taken by vladimir putin are like hitler, is that an apt comparison? >> i don't know if those comparisons are particularly useful. then we get into a conversation about what the important distinctions are between putin and hitler. i think it's more useful to look at what putin has done. what putin has done is he's built an authoritarian regime. he's in the midst of executing a huge political crackdown on his country and now he's encroached on another country, violating it's sovereignty. those are pretty hideous things on their own. we can point to other awful

things he has done,sca scap systematically violating international law. i think that's enough. >> she also said that he was a tough guy with thin skin, those were her words, that's a direct quote. i know you said that he's a playground bully. what do you mean? >> what i mean is that's the way he acts. he dominates, his goal is to dominate. when he's confronted, he obscures and that's exactly what he was doing yesterday at his press conference in moscow, he didn't step away for a second from what he is doing in crimea. what he did was what everybody expected him to sort of step up and create a great mobilization effort and call in the russians to invade ukraine. instead he acted like a playground bully who said that wasn't me, i didn't break that glass and he's not my friend anyway, while doing exactly what

he's been doing and we know what he's been doing. >> you've met with putin more than ten times with various groups, you said his training as an intelligence officer, plays into how he looks at everyone around him, he takes stock of the people he's playing against, explain that. >> putin among other things was a recruiter. he was trained to deal with human assets. when you're dealing with a human asset, you assess the person who's in front of you, you predict his or her behavior. and he took a look at the team who's playing against him who he considers russian enemies. he decides i'm bigger, i'm tougher, i'm strong ever. >> do you think vladimir putin is planning long-term, that he has a long-term view of the horizon or his actions are more

instinctual? >> i think his planned who rise son is not instinct wall. he acts on instincts. he's actually fairly consistent. but he have seen he has no ability to plan for the future. >> i disagree. >> aerial, explain that. >> marsha, you wrote a book on putin, you know that he said in 2005 that the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century was the collapse of the soviet union. his lifetime project now is the eurasian union for the 21st century where he will rectify this alleged historic injustice to russia. and in order to do that, he needs to go and take territory that he considers as historic russian territory. such as crimea. it is a ukrainian territory.

>> you're quite right. he sees it as his historic mission to collect the lands back together that he sees as russian. that mission predates his 2005 statement about the greatest -- it doesn't mean he has a stat strategy, but he has a mission that he acts day to day. up next, republican senator lindsay gram who links what's happening in crimea. dana bash caught up with senator graham on that. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ]

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welcome back, live from kiev, senator lindsay graham lit up twitter with a series of tweets in which he wrote, benghazi, when you kill americans and nobody pays a price, you invite this type of investigation. this comment and others he made have some crying foul. dana bash asked senator graham about his remarks. dana, you talked to senator graham what, did he have to say? >> lindsay graham is a democratic senator who has actually worked -- he told me he has gone way too long without

criticizing the president's foreign policy. senator, one of the tweets that you sent that's getting a lot of eyebrows is about benghazi, about the situation in the ukraine, it really in many ways started in benghazi when our first ambassador was killed. how on earth is what's happenings in the ukraine a result of what happened in benghazi? >> it's not just about ukraine, it's about our standing in the world. wow you agree with snowden is a hero or a traitor when our president tells them don't give him asylum, that hurts us. when you tell the egyptian military, don't put morsi and his crowd in jail, you challenge them to turn control back over to civilians, and nothing happens, that hurts us. when you draw a red line and you tell assad, when you use chemical weapons on your own people, that will be a red line, and you flinch, you tell the

world, we're going to find the people that killed our four americans in libya including the ambassador and you do nothing about it, wouhether you u agree with this policy in syria or egypt, whether you agree with his policies, when he tells people there are going to be consequences and there are none, it sets in motion exactly what you see. >> it just seems like a stretch to talk about the u.s., a u.s. ambassador and three other americans killed, to take that to vladimir putin. >> i didn't say that putin basically ignored obama because of benghazi alone. >> i printed out a series of tweets and it was sort of rapid fire mean tweeting at the president. really personal. >> it is personal. >> calling him weak and indecisive, new fewer than three times. >> i think he is. >> but by saying these things, aren't you making him weaker in the eyes of putin by someone

like you with your stature calling him weak and indecisive. >> during the iraq war, did senator obama criticize bush's policies? did people go on the floor and say that bush lied to us about weapons of mass destruction. didn't harry reid go on the was lost? say that the iraq war- the point i'm trying to make is that there's been too many times in the last six months where the president has told people, if you don't do what i say, there will be consequences and nothing's happened. >> you are in the middle of a republican primary, back in your state? >> exactly. >> you say the word benghazi, it is red meat for the republican base. you know that. >> republicans and independents want it no more. >> this isn't about primary politics back home? >> everything i have done has been about what i think is best for the country. i think it's best to find the truth about benghazi. when my primary is over and i'm

going to win, i'm going to still be on benghazi. >> what is fascinating is that despite the partisan divide you just heart there which is very deep over the reasons for the crisis in the ukraine, there's surprising similarity among republicans and democrats about what is absolutely not an option and that is military action. >> i spoke to senator marco rubio last night on the program who actually was in favor of much of what the obama white house has done thus far which was certainly interesting to hear from senator rubio. dana, i appreciate the reporting, thanks. >> thanks. and we'll be right back. mine was earned in korea in 1953.

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welcome back. a few quick notes, an exclusive about my first interview with liz wall, the network has issued a response, r.t. america has

issued a response. tomorrow night, my interview with vitaly clutch coe, we'll see you in one hour for another edition of 360, that's friday ukraine time and kiev. pierce morgan live starts now. good evening, this is piers morgan live, there's a new cold war between russia and the rest of the world. but it seems like there's no easy way out of the situation between russia and ukraine. >> russia's violation of ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity has actually united the world in support of the ukrainian people. >> at the same time u.s. intelligence officials deny they were caught off guard while russ russi