crisis as potential to spill over to the rest of europe something eu member states a worried about robert anderson also shared with us a topic brought up in the form regarding russia's growing involvement in the middle east something he believes needs to be watched closely due to some meeting or on it almost every year and it is extremely important it is to fall through which they had a very interesting briefing on the roller on the roster the team in the breach them and i think there was extreme eater and gardening cast themselves come the ambassadors of them at the benson israel has deep concerns about what the crisis in ukraine will come to europe as simple as of course very worrying nobility about the ukraine itself in the crimea but also about to move with what the impact it can form the relations between russia and europe and russia india and the western world in general and rolls to his disgust at the forum where olson of the topics of how we impact old east regional middle east i wouldn't want to teach you to work of cold war situation is very worst of the cast. we cannot manage to world v

robert sciuto and bob bayer. so jim, you're learning new information about when vladimir putin decided to move into crimea, what do you know? >> well, anderson, speaking to intelligence official the as well as other officials who read these reports last week, these intelligence assessments of what was happening and what was likely to happen, there are indications this was not a vastly premeditated decision by vladimir putin to take military action on the ground. it was a relatively last minute decision. that is one reason why it was difficult to predict. speaking to officials, they say he's an unpredictable character. he's done these sort of things before, last minute decisions, and that made it difficult for them to say he was definitely going to act and when was he and caught many offguard.e did >> well, bob, i'm curious to hear your perspective on this as a previous cia officer. over the last days or so, there's been several members of congress who have been very critical of the cia asking why didn't the cia or the united states know that putin was going to responsibility militarily until he had already done it. did this last-minute decis