beer. i'm angela rye. scott miller is ready for happy hour. we're on tornado watch. warnings issued for most of the east coast. this is happening in places we were referring to as the polar vortex. what a winter. rick perry unplugged from potato front page politics. we go head-to-head with the lowerful texas governor. i'm abby huntsman. we had another epic match-up with our neighbors to the north on ties today. the u.s. and canada faced off in the semi-finals of men's hockey and more was on the line than just a chance at a gold medal. president obama and canadian

prime minister stephen harper bet a case of beer on both the men's and women's match-up. the president already owes the prime minister a case of the white house's home brew after the women's overtime loss to the canucks yesterday. stakes are high when you got justin bieber on the line, chicago freight company put up this billboard said loser keeps bieber. the game wrapped up not long ago. who is keeping bieber and who is shipping beer. here's your spoiler alert. you have been warned. the canucks had our number. the u.s. came in as highest-scoring team in the games. and failed to find the back of the net. today the men came up short losing 1-0. the u.s. will now face finland tomorrow. canada will play sweden for the gold. mikaila has become the youngest

slalom winner in history. she beat the silver and bronze medalist by less than a second. love that. more medals for the americans. u.s. got the silver in the men's 500 meert short track. russia took the gold. china got the bronze. and julie chu has been selected to carry the flag in sunday's closing ceremonies. here's your current medal count. we're in the lead with 27 medals. usa. russia is on our heels with 26. canada, norway and netherlands round the top five. they are still there. joining us now from sochi to help break down all the news coming into the games, mary burn, "usa today" sports managing editor. all eyes in our office, a lot of eyes around the country, we're tuned on the u.s./canada men's hockey match-up today.

what happened? >> reporter: it wasn't good. canadian goalie kerry price was the difference maker. one moment there the american side they got the goal and that was it. it took one goal to win the game. >> let's talk figure skating my favorite olympic sport. it's far more subjective than a number of olympic sports. a controversy is not uncommon and yesterday a bit of stir. people are very upset about this. russia took the gold. south korea took the silver. and even american skater ashley wagner weighed in. i saw a lot of very nice and decent landings compared to the russians who botched a landing. people don't want to watch a sport where you fall down and score above someone who goes clean. more than 1.5 million people have signed a petition asking for an investigation on this. does this have legs? >> reporter: i think it has a

few legs. people get excited about figure skating. they want to know the right person won. this gets technical. it's a question of who is on the judges panel. how much an element is worth. what a jump does. when you have somebody like ashley wagner saying she's not quite sure the scores were right that's a big deal. she was talking about it earlier on the "today" show. our columnist has been all over that issue. people will talk about it. they want to know it's a fair and square competition and that crowd went crazy last night and the people we're talking to, insider skating officials said that had undue influence and talking about judges on that panel hugging russian federation people and the questions that raises. >> that doesn't sound right. >> let's get to a happy place. when sochi is over, who will team usa have on the wheaties box. >> reporter: you got to get your wheaties. up have the american slopestyle guys on the corn flakes box.

mikaila for sure. there's one moment in the second run when your heart stops. >> not healthy fur heart stops. >> i love you promoting the later programming. the other question we want to ask you, big picture here, there were a lot of cultural and geopolitical goals for russia and putin. we had an olympics where there's been, you know, small drama over thing like the hotel rooms. serious discussion about the rights of gays and other people and their ability to operate freely and live freely in russia. then, of course, the ukraine as well. when you put it all together where does this land in terms of an experience for russia and to some degree for putin's goals? >> reporter: i think that's still to be determined. i think the organizers got some really key things right. transportation works. athletes are happy.

there has not been a major security threat yet. please knock on wood for me. but what really matters is what we'll see in the coming weeks and months as you just mentioned, what happens with environmental activists with human rights activists. are there reprisals. that will have the lasting effects on what putin does or does not do and how the world views these games. >> a lot of us have become enamored with curling. abby started the trend. we got into it. curling is a fantastic interesting sport. hi-tech form of bocci. canada, i believe, took the gold. >> no one knows what that means. >> what do you mean? >> it's obvious. there you go. no one knows? i'm alone? okay. so canada wins the gold in curling? >> reporter: yes. >> what do you think about that?

>> fantastic. >> reporter: canada has a chokehold on the games. no getting around them. >> you can say an interesting fact about curling. i had a conversation today, you can never die in curling. >> if you drop that 40 pound rock on your foot that could be a rough day. >> i want to ask before we let you go, talk to us about the close ceremonies. what can we expect? >> reporter: they are promising big surprises. closing is always really tricky. we're checking to see how many athletes are sticking around for it. russia promises we'll have a great show. we have to wait and see. they did a nice job with opening. i'm confident close will be worth watching as well. >> absolutely correct. mary burn thank you very much for your time. up next, is it miller time in d.c.? i think it is.

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the house of republicans is broken. a congress. man said jesus himself couldn't be speaker and get 218 republicans behind something. only a ronang dreamer would say yes i want to join that troubled group which our next guest is either brilliant or crazy because he's running to represent california's 33rd district a lovely area that includes beverly mills, santa

monica. his name is matt miller. he put that all aside to run for office. welcome back, matt. >> great to see you. thanks for having me. >> the show us a total ineffef t ineffectual mess. why do you want to be there. >> i've spent a good chunk of my time in the last 15 years trying to think about what the solutions are that are equal to the magnitude of the challenges we face and i think we're not getting that from washington today and when henry waxman decided to step aside in the place that my family and i have lived for the last 20 years i decided this was a moment to step in the arena and try to push the boundaries of debate and see if we can get a real conversation going about,000 solve our biggest challenges. >> you flirted running for office before when you left the

clinton white house you thought about running and you talked about it with your, i think then girlfriend and she said you can do that or you can marry me but you can't do both. so i have to ask, are you still married? >> of course i'm still married. that was the right choice at the time. we built this wonderful life in pacific palisades. our daughter is now 16. this is an interesting civics lesson for her. >> how did you convince her. i come from a political family. she will be out on the campaign trail. your daughter will. how did you convince her? >> look, she believes in public service also. she also worked in the clinton white house. she's an entrepreneur now. so i'm in bed with small business in america every night and she knew the time was right to try and take the ideas and solutions i've been working on to be a fresh voice in the political arena and not just do it from the sidelines as a

commentator or radio host or a pundit. so she's with me in this. you know, abby, exactly how difficult this can be for a family, but we're in this to win. >> yeah. matt, i saw in your "the washington post" op-ed about this, you mentioned carrying on henry waxman's legacy. he didn't have a comment on you or any candidate at this point, which is understandable. i want to ask you specifically about carrying on his legacy of overseeing the government and particularly the national security context. as you may know he was one of the democrats who broke with his party to support the amendment that would limit the nsa's authority under the patriot act to support bulk collection, an issue know well that's been debate ad lot. how would you vote on something like that? >> well, look, there's no question that the privacy issues and constitutional issues

related to the nsa's activities have to be front and center. because i haven't studied the amendment in detail i won't be in the habit how i'll vote on something before i actually looked at it in detail. >> but that's an issue -- >> i'm very concerned -- >> that's an issue you've written a lot about. the amendment got a lot of press what it basically would do is say under section 215 they couldn't do that bulk collection part of which the president has said they want to voluntarily roll back. can you give us an inkling how you would vote. >> without looking at the amendment which i haven't done in detail. i'm worried about the privacy concerns. i don't think edward snowden is a hero. i have friend involved in the intelligence community who makes the case what the nsa does is very important in terms of national security. i would balance those concerns. i'm worried about the privacy. i can't tell you right now how i would vote on that amendment without studying.

>> matt, to switch gears a whole lot. going back to the district you're representing, district 33. voters decided with proposition 13 in 2010 to ensure california would have open primaries, california is not the only state to do this, but it means that all candidates run in the same primary and the top two vote getters advance in the general. what does this mean for your proposed or perhaps maybe your district if you're able to win this election, will it be more costly s-it more moderate, more competitive. what does it mean in this very gerrymandered congress we have. >> an expensive district to run in because los angeles is an expensive media market. the jury is out how the with top two open primaries will work. my district is a very democratic district. it's a strong chance two democrats could emerge on the june 3rd primary and head to the general election like other districts around california if

they are more conservative districts two republicans make it that way. >> indeed an expensive district, california 33. we talked about beverly hills, santa monica, marina delray, a lot of rich people there. look in the last race the losing candidate raised and spent $8 million, henry waxman raised and spent $2 million. you're going to have to raise a lot of money between now and june, now and november. you are an ideas guy. are you ready to sit on the phone all the time and go to nice rich people's houses and ask for money? >> toure', this is my big education. i've written about this for years. once you're in the candidate's chair, on the phone doing this, it is kind of insane, but i'm playing this game as aggressively as anyone because it's the only path to victory in the system we have today and if you want to change it you have to get there to be able to change it. so i've raised extraordinary

amounts of money in the first week. the response has been actually fantastic both in my district, from folks around the country who are interested in a bolder set of ideas, not the same old, same old from many of the career politicians who are my opponents. and i think, you know, i'll do what it takes to raise the money. but i've been writing in kind of a campaign diary to supporters already that it is a -- it's a crazy way to run a democracy but for now if you want to get there that's what you have to do. >> i'm curious to see how you would function if you were able to become a part of the house of representatives. i'm curious to see how this experience affects you as a media person if for some reason it doesn't work out four. eitherway it's a win-win for you and us. >> i'm glad to have "the cycle's" encouragement if not endorsement. i hope you guys keep an eye on this race. it will be a rumble on the west

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weather is once again making news as wepd the week. for a change it's not winter but severe spring like storms. up and down the east coast here with more than 200 storm reports so far. all that weather is moving east followed by another polar out break next week. a fragile peace deal is in place between ukraine opposition leaders and the country's president. after a political crisis that has increased. the deal stops shorts of the protesters demand that the president step down. president obama just spoke with russia's president vladimir

putin on the phone. to a market alert. let's check the end of the week on wall street. stocks are mostly flat today. investors reacting to a down beat economic report. new earnings report. nasdaq is on pace for its third weekly gain. back now to politics. they don't go often but right now the nation's governors are in washington for the annual winter meeting of the national governor's association. it's a four day event. currently republicans have control of 30 of the nation's governors mansions. 36 from both parties are facing re-election this fall while others are eyeing a potential white house run in 2016. amy davidson, senior editor at the "new york." welcome. my question for you is whether scott walker's scandal will ruin his 2016 aspirations. >> i think right now it's not looking great for him in terms of what people have found out, his 27,000 pages of emails. and part of the problem isn't

just that they show his aides involvement in campaign finance problems, campaign finance violations, but also that they show kind of a low grade of thoughtfulness and low grade of the people around him. it's not you look at this guy and look at the emails and say this is a smart team that you want running and do you think you can make that transition to a national campaign but it seems there's going to be investigation after investigation. there's just a lot to look at. >> amy, let's look down south. the south has been red for a long time since about the '60s pretty much. but political magazines cover story today is the potential of the south, senate and governors turning blue. the author says look the crux of the problem for southern democrats comes down this. while voters are moving beyond race they don't trust us, trust democrats with their money. he's saying obviously race has bean big reason why the south has been red all this time but

until democrats are trusted to have fiscal responsibility, they are not going to be able to turn the corner. do you buy that? >> a couple of important things. one we treat it as completely historically given that the south is republican but that's fairly recent. these things do change. this is a point that the politico piece made. another is that, you know, the demographic of the south are changing the way they are for the rest of the country. and the republican party is not really speaking to that. another problem for the republicans and another opening for the democrats, the divisions within the republican party, the way, for example, the senate race in georgia, where michele nunn is running about five republicans running for the nomination, one out tea partying the other and the way the republican party isn't focused and the primaries within the republican party pushes them in a direction gives the democrats in the south an opening.

in a way the very strength of the republicans in the south and the strength of the more conservative wing of the republican party that in a way might give a window for democrats to come in. so, amy, president obama spoke last night to democratic governors at a dinner and he was a bit more critical of republican governors than he's been in the past. he said quote, republican governors are implementing a different agenda. they're pursuing the same top down failed economic policies that don't help americans get ahead. and to the president i would say, eight of the top ten states for job growth have republican governors. that's according to the bureau of labor statistics. so i'm not sure he can make the case they are pursuing failed policies. is this a smart strategy? >> one thing he has a lot on his mind that want he thinks is a

strong economic issue is health care. there's such a difference in the way the affordable care act has been implemented and that's very much on governors and state houses whether they accepted medicaid expansion, whether they set up exchanges, whether they made it successful or educated people about their options. i think that's one of a few national issues like reproductive rights, minimum wage that the governors have a surprisingly strong voice on and there's a surprisingly sort of unified republican position on whether governors, for example, should accept medicaid expansion. that's what he's addressing. >> interesting interplay. abby makes a point about the statistics which are refutable and what the white house always says in many of these states they don't have the cooperation on policies that were always designed to be pro federalist and work with the states. it's an area of frustration. what we have here, i want to ask you something about your reporting on guantanamo which has been a big political issue.

big news out this week there's a guantanamo detainee who has made a deal to offer testimony which some people think is positive yet i want to put up on the screen some of the points from your piece, slow justice at guantanamo. when you look at these numbers, more than a decade at guantanamo you point out only seven convictions. guantanamo cases actually take five times as long as doing the same prosecution in federal courts. you point to human rights watch on that. finally you write half of the remaining prisoners have been cleared for release, people sitting in that jail have been cleared but not being let out because they have nowhere to go. talk through us the politics and implications here. >> you know, where i started from. over the weekend there was some interesting hearings down at guantanamo, some developments in the case of one man who is accused in the cole bombing and it got almost no attention. americans like courtroom dramas and they like to follow this and

so i wonder why they don't pay attention. these aren't working the way trials are supposed to. the military commissions that we set up at guantanamo are very artificial and very flawed. you watch the proceedings and hear what's going on and they are kind of making it up as they go along. there's only six out of the 155 prisoners who are down there who have charges pending against them, have this in process. it's almost like we have the people who we've accused of committing these terrible crimes and we haven't managed to really put them on trial. and the tragic thing is that we have a pretty decent court system, a pretty decent real criminal court system. one wonders why the 9/11 mastermind isn't on trial in the southern district of new york, why he isn't facing a jury in lower manhattan where people were murdered. and, you know, you look at guantanamo and you just see a real failure to do this basic

thing, put people on trial. and it's one of the many frustrating tragedies really having to do with our judicial response to 9/11. >> amy, we started talking about governors, maybe we can go back there a little bit because a few months ago republicans who have said our governors are our most important, our shining jewel in our whole crowd, our whole universe and now it seems governors are just thumping out of the 2016 race, looks very difficult. scott walker looks difficult for chris christie. i would imagine very difficult for ted cruz somebody who would like to be in that conversation. let's do the thing that we don't need to do right now. let's look ahead to 2016. if you had to put $5 down on who will down on the 2016 gop nominee who would you bet on? >> i don't know. chris christie, i know is going to try. whether he's going to make it, i

don't know. what's interesting, though, is that conversation is at least taking place in the republican party. some of the interest about this weekend is which of the republican governors will make a point. i don't see the same conversation going on the democratic side. that seems question is hilary get in and if she is or isn't, it's all waiting. there's not that same sort of cataloging of who are the interesting governors, who are the interesting senators. >> there's a lack of ideas i would say one that scene. >> so it's interesting. it's exciting to talk about republicans. that conversation isn't going on, it seems. >> amy i got one republican name. in all sorts of contexts and that's rick perry. and our own abby huntsman sat down with him. >> he might be the last man standing. >> up next it is rick perry

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listen i didn't know anything about this i trust he's correct in that knowledge and he's being frult with the people. there are things folks in government do that you don't know about. it happens. >> so you don't think he needs to step down. >> oh, no. the idea that -- no. >> governor perry, a member of the rga's executive committee and christie it's current chairman are two in a chorus of republican voices vying for the mic. >> the voice of 2014 is all of us and not being shy washington you are not the answer. >> perry is willing to put money on that. texas is one of 23 states that turned down federal funds to expand insurance for the poor under obamacare. not participating in the medicaid expansion could cost perry's state $90 billion often years. >> what do you say people say governor perry dislikes washington, dislikes president

obama so much he's willing to sacrifice the 1.5 million people that rely on this. >> if you want to have access to health care, let the states implement that. not the federal government. because we know what's going to happen. we're seeing study after study, cbo report after cbo report that the cost of this is going to be prohibitive. so if we put one size fits all obamacare as it's written into law today it's going to cost the states billions and billions of dollars out of their current budgets. so where do you want to take it from? do you want to take it from the education budget >> another option is raising taxes. that's not an option for perry. per person taxes are less in texas than in most states. something he says is a draw for business and key to job creation. texas has led the nation in job growth for the past four years. and perry wants the world to know it. >> if it hadn't been for texas the united states for those mid-wage jobs in particular

would be under water. that's how much texas has made a difference to the entire nation. i keep waiting for president obama to call me and say hey thanks for saving my life. >> let us know when he does that. there's a debate around the country, around raising the minimum wage. where are you on that? do you support raising it? >> i think you ought to leave it up to every company to passaic that decision. when government starts mandating wages is when you get in trouble. we know now by the cbo report that at least, at least a half a million jobs would be lost by 2016. >> there's a trade off because over 16.5 million get a boost, right? >> but at a time -- listen, governors are about creating the environment where people can have a job. and washington gets in the way all too often. >> perry's job ends this year after 14 years in office. >> this is actually the history that i want to share with you. that's davy crockett holding old

betsy. >> the former lieutenant governor moved in when george w. bush became president in 2000. perry was elected 20i7b 02 and re-elected in 2006 and 2010. >> george was sitting in that chair. i was sitting in that chair the day he called me over and said okay perry it looks like you're the governor. >> can you see wendy davis living here? >> you can see anybody living here. the issue is will they win an election. texas is a conservative state. senator davis is a very liberal senator. that's like, you know, asking if the university of texas is going to be changing their colors to maroon and white. i mean it's a good theoretical question but it won't ever happen. >> how much will you pay me if wendy wins. >> i don't bet. remember? >> that's a reference to one of the most memorable debate

moments from perry's presidential run. >> $20,000 bet. >> i'm not in the betting business. >> as for the other one? >> i can't. the third one i can't. oops. >> i have to ask, under a perry administration, what would be the three departments that you would fund? >> more than three. the more i think about it, the more we really -- if you believe in the tenth amendment, why do you need a department of education? you know, why do you need a department of commerce? why do you need a department of energy. i know that's the butt of a lot of jokes that, you know, i couldn't remember that third one. but the fact is there's more than three. i don't worry about whether or not someone is going to look at what occurred two years ago and define me. what's being defined right now is the future of america. >> your going to run again? >> obviously not for governor. >> your going to run in 2016 for the presidency? >> again, people that are

focused on 2016 are way off the mark. i'm focused on the next ten plus months of being governor of this state and continue to compete against the other governors out there. >> could you do it again? >> oh, absolutely can you do it again and it's on the radar screen. >> really? >> it's not my intention to be focused on that. >> that looks pretty great. >> we went to perry's favorite barbecue place. and one final topic. perry was asked to choose between legalization and decriminalization. >> i don't get hung up on playing word games. you need to be smart in how you penalize people for breaking the law when it comes to small amount of drugs. >> have you ever smoked pot? >> no. never. it's bad for your body. it's bad for your health. so, the legalization issue is

not ever going to happen in texas. how you deal with small amounts is where i think you can make the biggest and the best impact on young people's lives. >> i'm sure this is not the last time we'll be seeing governor perry. he heads to the all-important primary state of iowa next week. our thanks to the governor and his team for having us in austin. you can see more of our tour of the mansion and hear what rick perry has to say about his current relationship with president bush. that's at our website thecycle.msnbc.com. >> that was great. really good job. >> abby, abby -- >> we're on tv. you're not to be here until monday. >> i'm coming on monday. >> what time? >> i expect a similar little bit of back rub action. >> i don't know if we can do

that. got to talk to hr about that. >> we're launching. i'm excited. pre-show jitters. i've looked up to cable role models. >> i thought you would say us. >> you look calm. >> we'll do cool investigative stuff. a lot of participation. we'll go big. try to get a weekly call to action where people actually move tissue forward. good stuff. >> congratulations. >> yeah. >> always great. >> is your show only on twitter or is it also -- >> main event is our tweet street shelter but we're going on tv, 1:00 p.m. >> watch him daily. >> thank you ma'am. >> starting 1:00 p.m. eastern on monday. >> look at that picture. oh, my god. >> and a dirty old secret about keeping secrets. >> look at those eyes. >> i try. >> great.

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a secret" is in this month's atlantic magazine. here to let all the secrets out of the bag is sara yager. now sara, are you really going to tell me you have to spill all the beens from getting a cold? >> i think the only thing you need to do to understand this research is to think about the way that we talk about secrecy. we talk about keeping a secret. we talk about carrying secrets around. baked in to that language is the idea that there's maintenance and that there's effort associated with being secretive. what these studies are showing is that, indeed, keeping secrets is really hard work and that seems to be taking a toll on the body both cognitive and physical. >> is there a difference in the type of secret that you keep? let's say like keeping an engagement from someone versus keeping the fact you have cancer or having an affair from a person. >> yes. so researchers have found that

meaningful secrets what they call meaningful secrets like having an adealterous affair versus trivial secrets like maybe telling a white lie have different effects. in one study situation they had people think about either meaningful or trivial secret and write it down on a piece of paper and judge distance and the steepness of hills and they found people with meaningful secrets judged the hills to be steeper and distances to be longer than the other group. what that told them is that the effect of keeping a secret was very similar to the effect of carrying around a physical burden like a heavy backpack. >> i hate when people reduce scientific studies to the an tedotal. sometimes keeping secrets makes you feel superior when you're

not tell them the secrets you know. i do know when you tell people your secrets it feels good. that inverse part is absolutely real. >> right. there real. >> right. there seems to be something about secrets as social currency. kids who tell secrets to other kids tend to have better interpersonal relationships. there's something about being able to relate a secret to another person that might bring you closer together. >> keeping all that inside and not telling anybody about it, what about writing it in your diary? can that give you the relief you're looking for? >> it can. multiple studies have found there are marked health benefits to writing about a secret. in particular, researchers have looked at disclosure of a traumatic experience.

you can write about the experience and it seems to have some beneficial impacts on the immune system. the main researcher who has done this kind of work did a control study where he asked people to express their secrets sort of through movement. i don't know whether that was interpretive dance. >> what would that look like? >> right. but he found that didn't have the same sort of significant impact on health. it seems to be something about translating something you're holding inside into language. >> angela, you can't dance your way out of this. >> i tried that earlier. one other question for you. if alicia keys had it wrong, she should blurt out all the secr . secrets. do you have a secret you want to share with us?

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did you'd think i had forgotten you? perhaps you hoped i had. don't waste a breath. every kitten grows up to be a cat. they seem so harmless at first. small, quiet, lapping at their saucer of milk. once their claws get long enough, they draw blood. sometimes from the hand that feeds them. for those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. there is but one rule. hunt or be hunted. welcome back. >> you can tell a lot about people by how they treat animals, the people of house of cards talk about how to slaughter pigs and snap off birds heads and almost smoosh to

death that dog. season two of "house of cards" is vicious. so much more vicious than season one if those seasons became people, season 2 would strangle season 1 with its bare hands. no one is safe. no lovers from lovers. not bosses from underlings. anyone who is in the way will be removed. it's like everyone has a knife in their hand and not a smidgen of conscious in their heart. if you haven't finished season 2 by now, you deserve no more mercy than you'd get from frank if you were in his way. no show about d.c. has ever shown the capitol looking this heartless. everyone is always ready to dash off to a funeral. the soullessness of the visual landscape says this is a soulless world.

this is a group of politicians who don't care about principal and ideology is one of the most obvious observations possible, but what sort of an amateur would sign his name to an essay like that? having principals requires a love of people. this show wastes no time on love. does any major player on this show love anything besides power? they don't seem to like sex this much aside from a gay kiss here. it seems they would rather skip sex and rip each figu figuretively. the media does have a role in

this world. it was fun seeing my friends rachel and chris and chris and joe and ashley doing celebrity cameos as themselves. "the cycle" does not do celebrity cameos because we haven't been asked. we are open to foreign films and prime time nbc. "house of cards" is filled with soulless people and i can't wait to spend more time with them. season 3 is coming. i wonder who will play the president of russia. a truce is signed in ukraine, but will it hold and if it doesn't what will president obama do about it? it's friday, february 21st, and this is "now." >> the ukraine absolutely exploding. >> the state department is warning all americans to defer

all nonessential traveling to the ukraine. >> efforts are underway to try to find a peaceful resolution to this conflict. >> for the u.s. and europe, this has got to be seen as a positive already. >> whether or not this will really end the bloodshed and lead to change really is up to the influence of putin. >> the government's main ally, russia, is standing firm. >> what happens when the olympics conclude and the spotlight is removed? >> what does putin do next week? >> the fact is we don't have a lot of influence over putin. >> you're not hearing a lot from the white house what the stakes are in the ukraine. >> he is about to out maneuver us, some fear, in iran. >> what's the common denominator? vladimir