ares starts right now. >> fox news alert. vladimar putin completes the annexation of crimea. wow. welcome to hq. how are you? >> very good. happy friday to you. and i am sandra smith. nato flexing its muscle with two weeks of exercises in eastern europe. they are streaming live from ukraine. >> reporter: moscow making the official grim reality and russia for all intents and purposes is in control. in addition to the stroke of the pen, 20,000 russian troops in crimea on the ground backing it up. we are getting 10,000 ukranian troops in place in crimea. government officials said there is an evacuation plan in place and that would be an effective surrender from kiev even though they are not admitting the

annexation is for real. there is indication that ships and bases are holding out and making plans or trying to sail off and the russian ships are ready to block and seize them. ukranian troops are digging in and officials told us they are watching a ominous build up on the other side of the border, president putin claims he is not invading there. >> remember a decision by the former ukranian government to break off on the deal. and now there is new sanctions from european union and the u.s. they are looking for more help in the u.s. the former spy chief reminds me

they got rid of all of the soviet era missiles and some of them were pointing to the united states. >> thank you. >> there is word of russian troops beefing up the presence on the ukranian border. has putin made the final move? kt macfar land. >> has he or not? >> not a chance. he's only getting started. eastern ukraine which is where all of the oil and natural gas deposits are and military bases are from the cold war era and by putting troops on the other side of the ukranian border, putin is sending another message and do what crimea did and come along and join russia. at the same time the other part

of ukraine and kiev just signed a deal with the european union. and the question will be. will the europeans and the international monetary fund pony up with big bucks. the ukraine is 15 million in debt and needs another 15 billion to keep the lights on. >> so far the europeans are not interested in footing that kind of a bill. i think we are just in the beginning of what is going to happen to ukraine. >> what do you make of the intent there? >> here's what putin does. and he did this in georgia in 2008. there is large ethnic russian population in the countries that are in the former soviet union. they think of themselves as russia. and he will give all of those ethnic russians citizenship and

the next thing there are demonstrations and some of them caused by putun's agents and then putin can say i have to go help my people and protect ethnic russians and he has the tanks move in. in the end of the day, other countries are looking at crimea and the speed and oez and they have to say, i am worried about russian tanks comes and frankly russian economics. >> and so the president will go to brussels and what does he try to do there? >> i am not saying he will do. this but he is. the role problem in europe and that region. europe and western europe. they need russian oil and natural gas to keep their lights on. it is the russian energy that supplies the electricity. and so russia can blackmailro

land and germia and all of those countries subject to the blackmail through the oil and natural gas. what president obama should do. go and say let's have an american and european energy and we'll develop american and develop european natural gas so maybe not today but soon you can get free of the russian blackmail. >> with your european partners who is critical. poland or germany and if you are to pick one. >> i am watching anglica americale of germany. if she wants to impose serious sanks on russia that will make a difference to russia. and on the other hand it will come to a great price to the german and russia sells natural gas to germany and both of these

countries have an interest in getting good economic relationed. does she blink? >> and thank you, kt mcfarland. thank you. >> the search for flight throe 70 coming up empty. there was no signs of the missing jet liner in the indian ocean and malaysian authorities facing new questions of what they knew in the first days after the plane vanished. >> it is just about 1 o'clock in the morning australian time. and the search is called off after an unsuccessful hunt where it was sewn in the satellite photographs. >> and searchers found nothing but despite the good weather and high seas and brutal storms. >> he can so the visibility and

it was better visibility. and we had good opportunity and i think to see anything like this. >> and that is raising questions amongst some whether the search is a wasted effort. >> let's say there is a ten percent chance we so something that they identified in the satellite photographs. and a five percent chance that that has something to do with aircraft. we are down in that case to a less than one percent chance if you put those two factors together that we will so anything relevant. we are grasping at strongs because we want to give those families answers. >> the pilot made a mystery bef authorities are trying to determine who received that call. the malaysian government turned

over the hard drive to the fbi in hopes that deleted files will be retrieved. >> earlier today, laze liz officials talked about the angished families of the missing demanding to know where their relatives are. >> one question that they want to know is to the answers which he doesn't have. where are their loved ones? >> and that prime minister said he regrets the actions of the officials who dragged out information about the missing passengers to the relatives. >> a grim milestone. longest search ever for a missing airline. and back in 2007. it took ten days.

and it took five days to find air force flight 117 and after a crash in a indonesian volcano it took 20 hours to reach the wreckage. >> we are in it for the long haul is what the malaysian officials are saying. >> we'll so whether or not tomorrow or later today, top leader and how the black box is certainly, running out time there as well. >> nancy pelosi putting her money on obama care. >> affordable is a reason. affordable. >> affordable. affordable. affordable. and the reason they changed the name of it. they wanted to get away from the word affordable. >> what does the rest of the party see it as a winning issue

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>> searching for answers in the deadly helicopter crash in seattle. both men were killed on boofrmentd officials have surveillance footage from nearby businesses. including the chopper crashing

in the street and bursting in flames and setting throw cars on fire. >> it is called the affordable care act. affordable care act. i know you didn't intend compliment. the affordable care act. when people see what it means to them. and that's the case we have to make. we are grown ups. >> that's the case they are still making. obama care will be a winning issue for democrats, and so is the rest of the party on the same page? >> guy and julie, both are fox news contributors. >> happy friday. >> we have waited a week to get you back. >> we missed you. >> guy, is it a winner or not? >> it is a loser.

i strongly urged the democrats to heed the advice of nancy pelosi. and because it is not going to work well for them and i would be curious if julie disagrees with that analysis. >> and the latest pugh research poll, 41 percent approve of it and they are harsh numbers there. your response? >> and if you nuance it a bit and do i have in the poll, people that disapprove 30 percent want the loss fixed and nine repolled and so the problem for republicans is this. if they run on repealing obama care, preexisting conditions to deny you health care or pay for things that right now you don't have to pay for.

including well visits for children. and the democrats are saying it is a flaw and we saw that the law could be emproved but let's get together and try to fix it. >> julie, a win or loser. >> if they say what i am saying on the stump and makes effectively it is not a loser. >> you agree with nancy pelosi. >> i don't know how she intends to message it. >> she said affordable. 17 times. >> she calls it obama care or affordable care act. and campaigns i am involved in that's what i will do. >> guy, talk about the fact that even in the congressional budget office. many companies say that obama care will slow hiring and a major problem for the economy.

is it the democrats want to stick with this message? >> i hope they do. and just to respond to what julie just said. alex sippingh ran the don't repeal and fix the obama care play bock and she lost in a district that she had been governor and carried twice by barak obama. and look being at repeal and fix and keep it as is, biggest group of people who want to improve the law, one of the most popular changes that the american people want delaying or repoling the individual man date tax which is the centerpiece of the entire law. one of the big changes americans want is getting obama care. there is no dancing around that. >> julie, let me break in.

the republicans, what message are they going to own in this? that has been a problem in the past, right? >> they had ammunition and didn't stick to a message. how do they hope in on this? >> they won a historic landslide election. i understand there is important points where you have to put a positive alattorneyative and take care of people with preexisting conditions and overall focus on what the democrats promised would happen in the law. people would beably to keep their existing scenario and costs would go down for the government and terms of premiums and fam familiar cost. none of that is accurate. and let the me point to. this >> he mentioned the race in florida. nancy pelosi said we are ready for the next putt because final results are close. i think she mixed the petta

fores. >> they were close. >> and so it is not democrats seats that they loss. talk about 2012 when the election run on obama care. romney wanted to repeal and he lost. virginia, the gubnatorial ran on obama care and lost. and the district controlled by republicans and talk about that as a microca sym. >> for the record, julie, are you okay with obama care? >> i am fine with it. i am good with the policy and i am fine with the name. >> in the meantime we'll pitch and put. nmore than 20,000 americans ripped off to the tune of taxpayer dollars. the now scam to know about here.

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>> governor jeb bush mentioned as a possible contender for the white house. and today a reporter asked him

if he made a decision to run. >> no. i am going to make a decision later in the year. >> the former florida governor making the comment following a speech to business leaders. >> the watch dog for the irs, calling it the beggest phone scam. con man fleecing thousands of americans. what happened? >> you get a call. and the caller knows information about him and where you work. and the caller said you owe back taxes and if you don't pay over the phone with a prepaid debit card or wire transfer, you will be arrested or you will lose your driver's license or business license or they threaten immigrants with deportation. the irs is getting the

information about this scam and because it unfortunately has been working. the irs said criminals targeted 20,000 people nationwide and able to steal $1 million. and jay russell george put out a statement and said the people receiving unsolicited calls. is alarming and if someone unexpectedly calls and claiming to be from the irs and if you don't pay immediately that is a sign that the irs is not calling. real agents contact you by mail and do not demand debit card or wire transfer. >> they may be able to tell us

what happen to flight 370. the jet's black boxes could beb on the ocean floor. the race to find them before batteries run out. >> and the u.s. threatening to step up sanctions on vladimar putin. and will they follow-through and will sanctions even work? >> we needed specific measures with the respect of what happened in crimea. and i said it was important to send a clear message if this is further destabilization in ukraine more measures should be taken. first, choose unlimited soup or salad. then create your own pasta with one of five homemade sauces. and finish with dessert. three courses, $9.99. at olive garden.

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>> quick check of the headlines. fich upgrading the usof a to triple a and removing it from a down grade watch. and u.s. attorney's office underway and police officers are stationed outside of house speaker gordon fox's office. his office and fbi and state police are engaged in a law enforcement action. >> that's intriguing. >> one boyin a full meltdown mode to get a foul ball.

>> and the security guard gave it to a wrong guy. he went for it. no, it is mine, it is mine. and eventually. he you don't so it right there. he got it. we were looking at it earlier today. how do you get your way? send me a tweet at bill hemmer. >> and sandra smith fpn. the crisis in ukraine stays on the boil, vladimar putin shrugged off the sanctions and said they would not impact the annexation of crimea. and the west trying to turn up the pressure and british prime minister david cameron. >> a sham and illegal referundum took place. and russia sought to annex

crimea. this is a flagrant breach of international law. >> will putin listen? >> and how are you, matt. >> welcome home. what dow think of the sanctions? >> i think the american sanctions were a good step forward. much better than the obama sanctions. he finally hit vladimar putin where it hurts a bit. he went after his cronies and billionaires that run energy companies in russia and sanctioned one of the biggest banks that deals with the kremlin. and he added people in the puttin inner circle and security guys that organize the crimea invasion. but it is not enough. >> more to come? >> i am not sure. obama didn't say he would bring

more and europeans did not follow the u.s. in going after those guys and did not do it. and obama willing to sanction entire sectors of the russian economy. the europeans don't want to feel the pain. they trade a lot with russia and president obama, i think he still thinks that putin can be brought back in line by saying if you stop at crimea, we'll not do sanctions. that will only encourage putin to do more. he will move against eastern ukraine and southern ukraine and that's the way he operates. >> that's the argument that kt mcfarland made. if you want sanctions to work, you have to put them in place like they were in iran. we are a long way from that. >> there are other things that obama could do. he could announce approve all

permit ands liquidify natural gas export terminals and energy is the leverage that russia has over europe. and we can dimippish that leverage. and band all exports of frac being technology. and the penes should symptom all arms exports to russia russia is a small economy and the size of holapd and italy. and certainly not going and push russia in a resession and he would feel the pain of this. >> dow think our president wants to do that? do you think that the leaders of europe and germany want to do that? >> i think merkle is realizing how serious it & president obama is realizing how serious it is. i commend them for the steps taken yesterday. but they are treating putin as

an adolescent who is brought back with a wrist slap. putin is trying to redo cold war era and willing to protect all ethnic russians and reclaim territory as he has in ukraine. until we take the economic and security steps to meet that challenge, i fear he will see it as an invitation to move ahead. >> he is not going for ka isstan and you don't unite the entire soviet union but you go after little pockets with deep russian history? >> not only that and ethnic russians. there are 25 million ethnic russians left outside of the borders after the collapse of the soviet. and ka sistan is in play.

i think beyond ukraine and ukraine is where the actions right now, but it is going to be maldova. and yesterday, the russian diplomats raised worries about ethic russians in estoppia maltreated and la fia. they are in nato and we are oblijed unlike ukraine to defend them by treaty. and the people in nato who are thinking. woar. we are not sure we can defend the baltics or poland if it came it that. >> it is very interesting. thank you for coming on today. the point of merkel is something to keep a watch on, too. >> and meeting in brussels next week. >> and the search for flight 370

will start today. and the battery life of the recorder only lasts 30 days. and chris mark and former are navy sole and founder of seal team consults. chris, how much time is left to find this? >> 390 hours. it has a life of 30 days which is 720 hours and half of that is gone. and 390 hours roughly. >> we look back at history. and oftentimes, the black box, even if it is found months after the plane went missing, it is in a different place than the wreckage of that plane. is that in play? >> that is certainly almost all of the case. and now the black box. there is a underwater locater beak an and that sebds out

a signal. when that goes away, the box can be found but can take longer, but the data is never going to be gone. it is just a matter of when do we find it? >> chris, when we are looking at that picture, what is the search crew need to do to listen or to find that beacon? >> the black box, the underwater locator beacon has a range of 3.7 miles. and we know parts of the indian ocean are 5.1kilommeters like throe.1miles. the magic number is 4.2 and once it is outside of that range or doper than that it is hard to hear from the surface. they are dropping active listening. and so what has to happen right

now. countries that have the latest submarines, we need to send subs to that area. >> and speaking of rogering up. the united states spent 2.5 million on the search and rescue mission and allotted $4 million. doesn't sound like a lot when we are looking at days and months and years on this search. do you think that there is wiggle room and up the antias far as spending? >> everyone locks to the u.s. to be the beggest outlayer of cash and resources and we are almost expected to do. that i am surprised we haven't uped the ante. there is a last known position with respect to ma 370. we know there is two a rc. >> what is an lkp?

>> that is last known position. >> and how would they find that? >> that is based on radar pinging and even passively radars can detect a signal from an aircraft. >> even if there is a horrible collision on impact? >> yes. we don't have a die- hard accurate position. two arcs of travel. indian ocean where they are looking now and the other is ka siskstan. there is dozens of hangers there that could house a triple seven. and i think if it is not in the indian ocean, it could be sitting in a hanger in ka sistan. >> got you. this story continues three hour left to find the black box which is crucial to the investigation.

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>> coming up on the real story. miniature satellites in space could have found the missing airline. and high stake chess game over ukraine. irs calls it the biggest phone

scam it has seen. and starbucks plan to sell beer and wine. >> are you okay with them putting the bar in barista? >> that's all in the real story. >> flaunting your fitness, not allowed in one gym. this woman was told to cover up because she was too toned and intimidated the other patrins. for more on this johna i throw it to you first. was it okay for her to get thrown out. >> if i could get kicked out of the gym for looking to good, you would know where to find me. they have a strick business model and they have a policy you

cannot huff and puff and look too good. it is in keeper with the business model. >> and looking at the pictures. what she is wearing here. the broke policy. she signed a contract? >> and absolutely. they told her to cover up and when that was notoc. they gave her the money back. >> is she a victim? >> it is a victim. but in a constitutional sense. like race and gender. body type is a protected class you go to a jim. >> and okay. you throw awe potato sack over yourself and not just that. a woman is not just motivational and unspirational she is a role

model for the pudgy who are looking to get in shape. we clar by. that and we are committed to providing a comfortable and welcome environment. they have a dress cord policy. and in this instance they received complaints about her attire. and a staff member informed her of the dress code and offered a fro t- shirt to complete her work out. the policy is based on a tire and not physic. and dave, there is no lawsuit pending here or legal action taken place. i am convinced as a member she signed off on this and was not the supposed to dress like that

he didn't sign off on being discriminated against. what she is wearing is conservative. she is in a protected case. it is it a she can't change it. that is outramous and i suggest they make her a free member. a company could get in trouble? >> not here. if that were true we wont need gyms. that is not the case. a body type is not a protected class. it is the equivalent of joining a club. they can do that when you sign up. you agree to the terms and that's what she did and when she didn't grooe agree, they let her

leave and gave her ten bucks back. >> we'll have to leave it at that. if anything. you see a guy like bill in the gym. it inspires me to work out more every day. see you guys. >> mandatory federal sentences are coming under fire. eric holder pushing to change penalties. >> and why a piece of wrestling history belonging to hulk hogan and worth thousands of dollars. look at that fella. se asked pe a simple question: can you keep your lifestyle in retirement? i don't want to think about the alternative. i don't even know how to answer that. i mean, no one knows how long their money is going to last.

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stolen wrestling shoe signed by hulk hogan back where it belongs. surveillance video capturing the thief swiping them. the pair worth money. the thief turned herself in and said she had, quote, done a stupid thing. so far no charges being filed. >> dying to get a piece of the hulk. >> i guess so. >> that's a big shoe, big guy. >> urging shorter sentences in federal drug cases by cutting mandatory minimum sentences for some crimes. that's got some prosecutors worried. claudia live in san francisco with more on this. what's the deal, claudia? >> mandatory minimum sentences were enacted as part of a war on drugs in the 80s, someone busted with 1,000 marijuana plants, for example, or large amounts of markets could face five, ten, 20 years behind bars.

as a result prosecutors say drug crimes have gone down. now mandatory minimums under fire and leading the charge is the nation's top cop. amid exploding incarceration rates and allegations that long prison sentences have unfairly hurt low income and minority commune calling on eric holder to pass so-called sentencing act. cut sentences in half for many drug crimes and giving judges more leeway sentencing offenders. >> could save billions in prison costs while keeping us safe. >> many federal prosecutors disagree saying the leverage of sentences helps bring down king pins and crime rate. >> mandatory works very well when you have drug offender who can cooperate against a big, big player or organization or cartel and turn around and charge 20 years of mandatory time. a defense attorney knows the only way out of that is

cooperation. >> in a letter, national association of u.s. assistant attorneys wrote, quote, we consider the current federal mandatory minimum sentence framework as well constructed and well worth preserving. one federal prosecutor told me if the smarter sentencing act passes incarceration rates may go down but drug crime will skyrocket. he told me drug dealers won't feel compelled to cooperate. the bill passed out of the judiciary committee and heads members to the full senate floor. >> thank you. claudia from san francisco on that. a boy throws a temper tantrum at a baseball game to get a foul ball. so we are wondering -- >> how do you get your way. your way. how do you do it? >> everybody has their way. >> try to talk somebody into doing something. you must have. what's your tactic. >> i know i have mine. tweet us what you do.

>> good music choices. >> how do you get your way, america? >> jeff says i usually don't get my way. i'm married. >> tim says the big brown eyed puppy dog look works. work it, tim. >> sunday in bed, pretending to be mad gets me my way with my hubby. happy wife, happy life. >> i get my way by letting my boyfriend think he's right even when he's not. >> that works. how do i get my way, i'm married with children. i don't. >> your parents have been married how many year? >> 48 years. >> mine have been married 52. they seem to be making it work. >> congratulations to them.

>> and yours. >> thanks for letting me join you. >> you got it. >> see you next week. >> week after that. three days. i look forward to it. it's really fun. >> i'll call the mayor and make sure he's awake. >> please do. i'm sandra smith. >> i'm bill hemmer, have a great weekend jenna lee in for gretchen. see you on monday. >> youthank you, sandra and bil week two drawing to a close and what happened to flight 370 and the 239 people on board is still very much a mystery. hello, welcome to "the real story" i'm jenna lee in for gretchen carlson. the search continues to intensify in the australian island off the coast. this week a photograph, appears to be two objects floating in the area. we still don't know if they are pieces of the missing jet because no one seems to be able to find them. now word a british satellite company had indications as early as 10 or 11