actual concern for russian nationals or russian speakers inside of ukraine but is based on russia seeking through force to exert influence on a neighboring country. that is not how international law is supposed to operate. >> meantime, the ukrainian army is seeking new recruits in kiev. washington is preparing economic sanctions against russia and putting all military ties on hold. this after the national security team met for two hours last night at the white house. secretary kerry said the white house is not seeking confrontation with russia, but demands that moscow deescalate this crises. >> if you were jlegitimately worried about your citizens, go to the government and talk to them about it. go to the u.n. there's a better way to pursue

their interests in ukraine. if russia does not choose to deescalate, then our partners will have absolutely no choice but to join us to continue to expand upon steps we have taken in recent days in order to isolate russia politically, dependenticly and economically. >> ian williams is in kiev. what's the latest there? >> hi, krystal. we saw the first shots fired in this crises outside an air base in crimea during an intense standoff. the air base has been sealed off by armed russian soldiers but ukrainian soldiers who work in the base marched up towards the gate, demanding they be allowed in to get on with their jobs. the russians responded by firing warning shots above their heads and threatening to shoot them in their legs.

luckily it was diffused. earlier today vladimir putin, the russian president, had denied there are russian troops occupying crimea. that was met with disdain by secretary of state john kerry who of course was visiting ukraine today. he came as a gesture of support for the government, saying the u.s. would provide $1 billion of loan guarantees as well as providing expertise to the central bank and to help crack down on corruption. he visited the barricades here which have become a shrine to those who were killed during the clashes, many of them shot by snipers. he was very well received and of course as have been his promises of economic aid. the economy here desperately needs stabilizing and he's hopeful that together with the imf and the eu they can come up

with a package to at least see the ukrainian economy through until the new elections which are due to may. back to you guys. >> ian williams. thank you. we return to tony schaefer who ran black ops for the military and is a senior fellow with the london research and harold fineman from the "huffington post." what do we know about what's going on inside the country and from a u.s. perspective what do you think would be necessary on black ops, something you know a lot about? >> well, the first thing i would do is try to get folks close to get situational awareness. no offense to the press, you can't always tell what's on the ground so you got to be careful of that. secondly -- not us, them. i think the idea is we have to ideas who's saying what and why

they're trying to say it. i think talked about this last time i was on. vladimir putin is all about posturing. there are troops there, of course they are. he has the right to be there. the bases they have, for the naval bases the treaty they have, he has that right. he's going to take it up to the edge as far as he can legally to make the point that if he wants these military forces but i don't think he will because it's not in his economic interests to do so. he's out to create money and going to war in any form would go against his ability to do that. >> howard, as tony referenced, the president spoke about this today, let's take a listen to that. >> everybody recognizes that although russia has legitimate interests in what happens in the neighboring state, that does not give it the right to use force as a means of exerting influence inside of that state. >> so, howard, what are we going

to do? senator mccain and others are screaming that we have to do something as if something, anything will forestall the apocalypse but you don't have to listen to the do-something crowd. they're the same folks who brought you the wars in iraq and afghanistan. these are the arm chair experts convinced that every international problem is a vital interest to the united states, that the maintenance of so called credibility and strength is essential and any demonstration of weakness is a slippery slope. i agree with that and this idea that the president is almost being baited into action by this crowd and what credibility do we really have to say that russia should not be attacking this smaller country that did not aguess against it when we did the same thing with iraq? well, i think you saw the president of the united states trying to be careful there,

trying to be cautious but firm. i've spoken to people in his administration and at the white house about this. they think that vladimir putin has overstepped in some ways, if not many ways. they don't want to corner him. they don't want to create more of a confrontation than is necessary. they will deal with things incrementally minute by minute. that's what they're trying to do. this is a big chess match going on here. putin has made his first moves in crimea. there probably will be others. i think it's going to be difficult to have those troops, whether they're labeled as such or not, withdrawn from crimea any time soon. it's possible that the leader in exile of ukraine could have supporters setting up some kind of counter force to the rest of the country. there are all kinds of diplomatic and strategic moves here that are way short of unleashing the furies in the way

that many conservatives and republicans want to do. after all, they've been after president obama to try to paint him as weak. you hear the same words over and over again, he's weak, effectless, leading from behind. in fact, in some ways, on some issues like drones for example or other things that might be considered acts of war, the president has been pretty far to the right. they're desperate to take down what is really in certain respects the first credible chief in political terms in quite some time. they tried benghazi, it didn't work and they're going to try this. >> tony, putin is a central figure in all of this. we're trying to figure out how he thinks and it seems he's good

job of improving his image. he's found a balance between being a tough guy and also someone willing to engage on the world's stage but the moment he invades ukraine all of that changes. he will be basically asking the international community to unify against him. you say that invading ukraine would be like a 21st century version of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. it seems like it would be irrational on his part to invade. >> 70% of the ukrainians are russian. that 70% can't take care of everything else. it would be worse than afghanistan. i'm a conservative but a lot of conservatives are actually calling for and trying to put into the budget a return to a large ground force which really is kind of like the french calling for the line to be built right before world war ii. putin is a 21st century russian.

the old guard who ran the cold war were basically victims of the great war we call world war ii. they were paranoid. putin is not paranoid. he's aggressive. he wants to create an economic war pact. i think he's got to look at his options before he moves forward. >> howard, back to the u.s. politics of this, you were saying that republicans' attacks on the president are an attempt to sort of take down the first credible democratic commander in chief in a while. they also potentially have blow back on hillary clinton. as secretary of state hillary clinton was really the face of the so-called russian reset. so it seems to me that republicans are sort of going after her ability to have clear-eyed strong leadership. back in 2008 her strongest ad was that memorable what are you going to do at 3:00 a.m.

who do you want picking up the phone when there's an international crises. it seems like there's also an attempt to pin some of the problems with russia on her and make that less of an appealing selling point for her in 2016. >> not just russia and the infamous mislabelled reset button but the notion of the obama administration. conservatives i'm sure would find it ridiculous to the point of insane for me to say that the president has been a pretty successful in the role of commander in chief, but really he has been. the biggest block that he's got in terms of the global chess match i think is what happened last year with syria, the drawing of the red line and the fact that it really took putin in a way to save the president on that situation in terms of chemical weapons in syria. that's going to be the line attack. they'll go after the president and go after hillary and try to lump the two of them together on foreign policy. that may be a mistake, but i

think that's exactly where they're headed. >> lieutenant colonel tony schaefer and howard fineman, thanks as always. we will continue to monitor the situation and we'll keep you posted with any. up next, the budget, the president's plan rolls off the presses and we dig into it as the cycle rolls on. cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice

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our budget is about choices. it's about our values. as a country we've got to make a decision if we're going to

protect tax breaks for the wealthiest americans or if we're going to make smart investments necessary to create jobs and grow our economy and expand opportunities for every american. at a time when our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years we have to decide if we're going to keep squeezing the middle class or reduce deficits responsibly while taking steps to grow the middle class. >> that was president obama outlining his $4 trillion budget for 2015 setting the stage for another budget fight. it calls for growing are the tax expansion. the president says he's paying for all of this by closing loopholes, one of which is wall street's favorite loophole which allows hedge fund managers to count their investments as

income instead of capital gains. many think it faces a long road because of republicans in the house. to walk us through the budget battle, jimmy williams, an opinion writer for u.s. news.com and an msnbc contributor. how are you? >> how are you, hello. >> i want to start with one of the more important things which is that child care tax credit. this is big for people. when you look at the numbers from the white house, you're talking about well over 1.5 million people effected, $600 for a lot of folks with children under five years old. my view, tell me if you agree, a lot of these folks, that's $600 they can use for child care and other things and goes right back to the economy. what do you think of that proposal for families in this budget? >> it's very smart. it's middle and lower class families. it's targeted to people with families. how much more pro family values

can you possibly get? what the president's proposing it would expand to something like 15 million families. that's a big number. you can offset that with revenue raisers which are in the budget. i think he's got $500 billion of revenue raisers. for something like this you're asking the wealthiest to pay for middle and low income families to be able to go and work so that their kids can be in daycare so they can go to work. that's not a bad idea. that's progressive taxism. >> jimmy, i know we can be a bit of a cynical group. >> you four? >> something shocked me though. there are some similarities and some overlap between the president's proposal and republican dave camp who released a tax reform proposal last week, a few of those similar items as ari was pointing out, the carried interest loophole going away,

similarities on child tax care credits. both want to lower corporate rates. they almost get to the same place with that. both have some form of a bank tax. both look to invest in infrastructure. i know our immediate instinct is to say none of this is going to happen so it's nice to talk about. is there actual some common ground that we could potentially work from? >> i would say yes if i didn't think that the representatives in the building behind me -- they just don't want anything. the chair man of house ways and means put an albatross around the neck of the republican caucus in the next congresses. the reason being because he's been working and building support for this for years. now they have to own it. >>courageous in my view.

>> i disagree with very little of it from a fiscal perspective, not from a social policy perspective. what camp has done is, everyone is saying that it's dead. that's fine but it's a dead thing that's walking around with future republican congresses. they have to own this now. by the way, don't think for a second the democrats aren't going to beat the living hell out of them every budget season and every tax bill and every single amendment on the floor of the house and the senate that the democrats offer and say this is the camp proposal. it's the obama proposal one. >> the one thing that continues to not be addressed are the programs that make up most of our spending. we're talking social security and medicare. we're unwilling to address the unsustainable growth. if the president wants to put forward a budget that wants to be taken seriously he needs to

be willing to touch these things. it included the cpi that was obviously taken out. we have something that's basically dead in the water, something republicans are not even going to look at. >> two things. he did take out cpi because if the republicans aren't going to work with it, why give them something. secondly, it's dead anyway. the president's budget should be thrown in the trash. >> it was dead last year with cpi. >> that's exactly right. nobody on the capitol hill. i hate to say this, it's cynical and terrible. no one pays attention to any president's budget ever, period, no matter what. the reason they don't is because it doesn't matter. article one, section 9, clause 7 of the constitution is clear. their job is to spend money. the president's job and the executive branch job is to do what they tell them when it comes to spending money. it's perfectly clear. not until 1921 did any president submit a budget to the congress. that was, i think, harding or

someone like that or the mccormick act. in 1974 richard nixon was ignoring what congress was telling him to spend money on so they tied his hands on that and you have this new current budget process. in the 37 years since we've done that i think we've passed six budgets on time. we didn't need it from 1789 to 1994. they ought to stop him from doing it and let these yahoos decide what to spend money on. >> maybe they can touch entitlement reform. >> that's where i was going. they should have put something in there. that's the kind of deal you would never do in a budget bill. that is going to have to be accompanied with a tax reform bill. you've got to put the two together. >> jimmy, you look good as a cynic, as a preacher, you were preaching right there. i like the sound of that. revenue williams bring it on

home. >> i've never been called that before. >> let's not even talk about entitlement reform until we talk about the wealthiest paying more. entitlement reform means we're going to shaft the older people, i'm not comfortable with that. this entire notion is dead on arrival because the house as you said can't get anything done and with all these retirements that we're about to see with dingle and wachsman and other folks, the people who are referred to as the problem-solving caucus are leaving so we're going to have more of this problem ahead. >> that's probably true. you're never going to get these guys to agree on anything. they hate the guy at the white house. let's just talk about the 100-pound elephant in the room. they all hate obama. >> it's not just personal about obama because if and when hillary becomes the next president or elizabeth warren or whoever it is, if they're a

democrat the republicans will behave the same way. >> i'm not sure about that. i actually do believe -- i inherently believe that the congress, most of the republicans in congress just despise barack obama. some call it racism or whatever they want. maybe it's a combination of these things. i don't know the answer but what i can tell you is i have watched this closely for six years. they refuse to work with him on anything after obamacare. since that's the case, until he's gone, don't expect any major move on these bills. >> ultimately i don't think it matters whether only the exact version of the budget passes. we're looking at parameters. the fact that the parameters are closing to what elizabeth warren was talking about is probably a good thing. the republicans missed a chance because they had a cpi offer. they can think about that. jimmy williams, thank you for preaching, believing and for being a cynic. up next the latest in the

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dramatic testimony in the oscar pistorius trial as a witness described hearing multiple screams coming from his home. he claims it was self-defense because he thought she was an intrud intruder. the hearing was delayed after a television station violated courtroom rooms. we're look to look at the weather. march cold continues to grip a good deal of the country. the first official day of spring is only about two weeks away. winter weather is expected to stick around for the foreseeable future. the great lakes are more than

99% frozen. that is the most this season. >> a cold rain is not dampening the mood in the big easy. umbrellas and rain coats lined the parade route and tens of thousands are expected to gather in the french quarter for the more lively portion of celebrations. of course the party is over tomorrow, the beginning of lent. the oscars are over but everyone is still talking about the impromtu pizza party that ellen hosted. she went around the audience collecting tip money for the delivery guy and invited him on her show yesterday to pay up. >> so you left before -- i wanted to give a tip and i passed pharrell's hat around and i ended up getting about $600,

something like that. here's some more. there's $1,000 so you have a total of $1,000 tip. >> yesterday we had our own pizza party and i was actually in pittsburgh so i didn't get a chance to tip charlie before he ran offset so i thought we could take care of that. i don't think you did quite as well as ellen's pizza guy. >> i'll give it to the kids. with that little bit of business taken care of, let's get back to the oscar winners and what's up next for them. with lupita nyong'o and matthew mcconaughey translate oscar gold into bigger opportunities or face one hit wonders like cuba gooding junior and others. i was thinking about him who has

been pretty widely criticized for some of the roles he's chosen afterwards, things like snow dogs, land before time, daddy day camp. i think a lot of this does have to do with role selection. his role in jerry mcgwire was so perfect for him but it must be tougher for a minority actor. >> you think about monique and others have been less able to get other roles. also, you have to work every once in a while. you're going to have to do a snow dogs or something because the town needs the stars to work. the grips and the directors all rely on these folks, the george clooney's and others working so often. i'm excited to see steve mcqueen having more power because he's

going to choose to do pretty much whatever he wants. he's making amazing choices from shame to "12 years a slave" what he's going to do next is exciting. >> who is not a one hit wonder is my man, matthew mcconaughey. i've known him as the guy on the chick flicks. tory says he does a lot of serious roles but i don't think it's been until this year to where he's propped up to be taken seriously. there are so few in hollywood, a handful of them that can stamp their name on a project and get the money, the funding and the support and usually they do very well. i'm talking brad pitt, tom hanks. leonardo dicaprio. >> you think he's in that group? >> he could. he's worked his heart out. not just dallas buyers club --

>> in ten years -- he'll never reach it. >> i expect great things from him. >> i know you're also a big matthew mcconaughey fan. >> he's amazing. his wolf of wall street performance which everyone remembers. >> all right, all right, all right. i didn't see it. >> amazing. do we have 20 seconds? if you read about wolf of wall street they shot that in a few hours. they did it in a day. >> he probably onto had a day. >> right. it was a seen and movie stealer and it's in all the trailers and previews because it's that kind of iconic scene. >> they stole the movie from leonardo dicaprio. >> thank you for that. dallas buyers club was, as they mentioned at oscar night, turned down over 100 times. >> that's a rough film. >> but he stayed committed. true detective which is my

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as anyone in politics or television knows all too well, words do matter. a simple slip of the tongue that might seem innocent enough to you can be hurtful or offensive to someone else. it's the use of one such word, the r word, used to describe someone with an intellectual disability that led to the spread the word to end the word campaign. this works with schools and community groups to promote the inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and stop the use of the r word. tomorrow marks the 6th anniversary of the campaign. joining us or the co-founders of the spread the word to end the word initiative. tim and serin, whose sister inspired him. tim, your campaign works with the special olympics and best buddies. this is something near and dear

to my heart. my uncle mark is intellectually disabled and -- i'm going to brag, won the gold in skiing a few years ago. it was a big moment for him and our family. i was so proud of him. it comes down to dignity and respect for these individuals, right? >> absolutely. i'm so glad you shared your story to start. we both grew up with friends and family with intellectual disabilities and that sparked this for us. we grew up and saw how it hurt, degraded and belittled. as we grew older we decided in college we wanted to do something about it and give young people the power to ultimately change the way we see, treat and act towards people with disabilities. >> i love that you saw a problem and took action.

talk a little bit about the evolution of language and the way that words that may once have been descriptive and acceptable can become offensive overtime. i think sometimes you hear people complain about the so-called pc police. older generations in particular can feel like, well, this is something that i used to say and it used to be okay. how, over time, did it become offensive? >> the term like the r word was used by other professional and medical professionals working with people with disabilities for a long time. it was the accepted word. but over time it became polluted by another source and that other source is the social stigma that's placed on people with intellectual disabilitiedisabil. now we face a term that isn't used by the medical professionals. it's not used by people who work with people with disabilities.

it's used as a playground insult, as a putdown in a hallway, whether it's used towards people with disabilities or not. we've seen it become something that is a slang term for undesirable, for hapless, for hopeless, and it's become that because of the association with people with intellectual disabilities and that makes it destructi destructive. >> words trigger associations and they can trigger a lot of negative associations above and beyond stigmas that may exist to your point. with that in mind i wanted to also ask you about the signing in 2010 of something called rose's law that was officially enact to remove these kinds of references and terminology from our laws and federal code which on the on the one hand is only a

small part, and yet, with your campaign in mind, it's also important, isn't it? >> that's right. we see this as a symbolic step taken by the federal government to remove it from the terms that it uses within its laws. within spread the word to end the word, we work a lot in schools, in communities with young people, to take on, like we talked about before, that casual but still very destructive use of the term. so this is a great step forward to see the federal government do s something like this. we definitely laud what it's done but we see it as that next step and with still a lot of opportunity left to create positive change. >> let's talk about how you actually make that change. what do you say to people in schools and what should we say to people in our lives who use the r record and say i'm just

talking about myself, that i did something dumb. what do we say to them to get them to see the error of their words. >> someone with a disability gets to hear the word but we take issue with the use of the word between people, even with someone without a disability. it's really important for us to recognize that when we use these words, words matter, language matters, language determines how we think and operate in our world. so every time we use this word, we perpetuate a stereotype. every time i say when you trip in the hall you're a retard, then you're perpetuating the stereotype with tripping with someone with an intellectual disability. it doesn't just affect them but it affects the way our society operates every day. it's important to challenge each other to use a different word.

it's not that difficult. >> it's a great fight. i'm so happy you guys are here. you left us these awesome green bands, spread the word to end the word. i will wear it proudly. thank you for being here. the one and only rosie perez is waiting in the wings and she takes a seat at the table. that's next. >> you want to hear them? here they go. sometimes when you win, you really lose. and sometimes when you lose, you really win. and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie. and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. >> i hate it when you talk like that. makes me crazy when you talk like that.

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with depression until i read her book. i'm honored to welcome my homey to the head of the table, rosie perez. welcome. >> thank you, thank you for having me. >> you say that part of why you are the actress you are is because of where you've come from. you said i've been acting all my life, creating realities and suppressing true emotional realities. what do you mean by that? >> when i was in the catholic home prior to the group home, they would allow us to go to outside school. when i would go to outside school, i was always pointed at. those are the kids from the home. so i would just kind of side-step that and act as if i wasn't from the home. i'm talking about second grade, and i pulled it off. also when i would go to school,

i did have a cheery disposition. i loved going to school. so no one had a clue what was going on once i went back to the convent which was a lot of abuse. at the convent, the way i hid my emotions was that i wouldn't allow sister renetta to see how she was really affecting me. so when it came to acting, i went, oh, i could do this. this is easy. this is easy as pie. i remember, i write in the book how i would make up these grand scenarios, these whoppers of lies to the kids in the junior high school. i was like, well, father, he put me with the nuns because of the divorce, but he's sending his car to bring me back to brooklyn. bring me back to brooklyn should

have been the clue. i did that and people, it was horrible that i did that, but i felt like i had to do the reali was just too sad. >> rosy, you have so many fans from your movies. how you're going to have readers. what do you want read to take away when they look at this story, particularly the childhood that you write about? >> i want them to understand that if they've ever had any type of abuse in their life they're not alone, if they ever had to deal with a parent who was mentally ill, they're not alone. and i want them to, more importantly understand that, you know, if life dealt you a bad hand, you can ask for you cards, and a counselor told me that once in a group home. and i remember asking him, how do i do that? he says you're going to figure it out once you get tired of holding that hand. that is me putting those cards

down was going to therapy and seeking help, you know? but also part of -- you know i put one card down two cards down was staying focused, keeping my eye on the prize, getting my education, going out to california, going to college, you know, all of those things, you know, you just letting the cards go. >> i love that advice. you talk a lot about interesting people you got to know early on in your life from tupac to j. lo to p. diddy, is that what he's called today? you called him puffy in the book. >> tell her, it's just diddy. >> and you say most of the dancers in the club felt puffy didn't have an original style and bit off of everyone, it may have been true to an extent but puffy did have something. >> who surprises you the most? >> puffy, yes and no, because he always said that he was going to

be a multimillionaire. he always said that he was going to take over the music industry, and everyone was like, yeah, right. and there was a tiny bit of me that believed him because he was -- he was so tenacious, he was so focused and driven, and he loved what he was doing so much. in regards to the dancing, puffy was a great dancer, and we all bit, we all bit off of bojangles, james brown, that's what my statement was. and he did have his own style. and it was great. but he surprised me how he kept it going, because a lot of people entered the muse ex-industry and blow up and crash, and he still is relevant. >> he's still there today. rosie perez, "handbook for unpredictable life" congratulations, best of luck with the book. see you around the neighborhood. next, crystal makes it clear why the behind the scenes budget wrangling sucks. neutrogena® pore refining cleanser.

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as we reported on earlier "the cycle" today, president obama released his proposed budget for 2015. it full of lots of good ideas for how to tackle what he calls the defining challenge of our time, rising inequality. inequality, politicians on both side of the aisle are paying lip service to concerns about limited opportunity for those who don't start life with a trust fund. this debate is important, but the truth is what's more vital are things happening that no one's talking about. it's what happens after the laws are passed and the budget's set that matter. it's the unseen and unnoticed

gaming of our political system by wealthy individuals and corporations that's leading to rapid accumulation of wealth at the top and stagnation for the rest. just take a look at two little noticed stories from just the past week. first, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, we created a new agency, the consumer financial protection bureau with designed to a voice to the little guy. it helps consumers navigate a complex financial world and protects them from abusive practices. but i'll give you one guess who doesn't much care for all of that, big banks who want to continue operating with impunity. so despite the fact that the cfpb does a lot of good for literally millions of people it's constantly under attack. the house just passed a bill that would gut the cfpb, removing independence that is key to the agency's success. small minority with a lot of money trying to take away your protects so that they can keep getting richer, and you probably

didn't know about it. second, the obama administration is currently negotiating a massive new trade deal called the trans-pacific partnership, described as nafta on steroids. despite promises typically made about the so-called pretrade deals they end up providing huge profits to big business at the expense of workers. somewhere ross perot is making giant sucking sounds as he attacked nafta back in the '90s april look at who is officially advising the obama administration illuminates why workers get the shaft in the deals. out of 566 people who serve on the trade advisory committee, 85% come from business and the trade associations that represent business. and who's looking out for working people and for the middle class in these deals? next to no one. only 5% of the committee problems come from labor. these committee are supposed to speak for the public's interests, and yet overwhelmingly dominated by

those who speak only for big profits, big business at any cost. these stories, sadly, are not the exception, they are the norm. big money getting even bigger by gaming and buying our political system. according to economists, those at the top have learned how to suck out money from the rest in way that will the rest 0 hardly aware of. that is their true innovation. there it is again, that "s" word, the suck. we let them get away with it because we either don't pay attention or feel powerless that all we can do is throw up our hands and that's exactly what they want you to do. time to wake up and stop giving them what they want. so while we debate merits of obama's budget, don't forget to keep watching for what happens after the budgets are passed. that's where the real action is. and to quote perot and stiglitz it often sucks. and that's it for "the cycle."

"now" begins now. >> putin breaks his silence on sue crane by speaking nonsense. it's tuesday, march 4 and this is "now." >> major developments today in the volatile crisis in ukraine. >> russian president putin -- >> addresses crisis in ukraine for the first time. >> russian troops firing warning shots over the heads of ukrainian troops. >> a dangerous situation. >> we condemn the russian federation's act of aggression. >> the white house confronting major challenges. >> prepared to make sure that the rights of all ukrainians are upheld. >> the u.s. ended all military relation with creme zblin merkel told president obama that she wasn't sure putin was in touch with reality. >> he's seeing the western hand behind everything. >> putin doesn't believe that the cold war is over. >> soldiers currentfully crimea, they're not russian soldiers at all. >> putin is, in many ways, i think, delio