eventually they come back to the united states to create problems too. people have to see beyond what is the immediate problem and think about how the research that has been done in the united states, how what is done in terms of the pharmaceutical development here not only helps the united states but also the rest of the world because helping those people also help people here. it's a different way of thinking about the fact that we are not isolated. this is a global problem. >> how big is the online business of prescription drugs? >> i cannot tell you right off the top of my head the number but it's fairly large. >> would you ever order anything online? >> no, i wouldn't. >> nobody? >> no, i would not. simply i would not. that would be my own personal. i would not >> are there any rep rep puteable companies? > of course. ordering online could mean many things. in ould be a genetics house india. i have seen the whole range of spectrum but personally i would not order online. >> which countries have you experienced have done the best with medicine? >> it

our friends in the united states what we believe is the truth. i don't think i've ever condemned the united states. >> charlie: you use language everybody would assume is condemning. >> well, we can have an argument about semantics on that issue. but what i'm saying is that if i see my friend doing something wrong, i have to tell him that he's doing something wrong. >> charlie: and something wrong he was doing was not being as tough with syria as he should have been when the so-called red line that he announced was passed. that's the biggest issue. not iran. >> indeed. >> charlie: the final thing, the qatar government is always raising concerns because it seems to be aggressive, ambitious, wanting to play a huge role in the region, the kind of role saudi arabia and egypt have played. this is jeff goldberg who you know. >> not personally. >> charlie: but you know who he is. he gets these interviews with the president all the time, and you read those. al-fani, th the amir of qatar mt with five neighboring countries including saudi arabia, bahrain, t

stated, what happens next? >> the precedent has been set. the united states clearly will not act alone nor should it act alone. the initial steps right now should be what can take place now short of military action that would be sufficiently convincing to vladimir putin that that is what he's doing. we do have friends, allies, nato, we have the ability to try to influence and wedge ourselves in there. right now the concern is that we have a waning level of influence and it needs to be reasserted and it's going to be very, very difficult for the united states to do that alone, nor should it. >> we're going to hit pause and come back with more of this conversation. a significant question for the united states. former head of the cia, someone i spoke to about the warning. we also have new backlash against spike lee. are people targeting this family's home because of his rant and a man in mississippi declared dead and sent to a funeral home and then a miracle happens. >> i stood there and watched them put him in a body bag and zip it up. >> he was not dead

our friends in the united states what we believe is the truth. don't think i've ever condemned the united states. >> i could read you some language. >> we could have an argument about semantics on that issue. what i say is, if i see my friend doing something wrong, i have to tell him he is doing something wrong. >> something wrong he was doing was not being as tough as he should've been when the so-called red line that he announced was passed? that was the issue. >> indeed. >> a final thing. the qatar government is always raising concerns. wanting to play a huge role in the region. the kind of role that saudi arabia and egypt have played. this is jeffrey goldberg. you know his work. he gets these interviews all the time. you read those. the amir, he met secretly in kuwait last week with foreign ministers from five neighboring countries, including saudi arabia, bahrain, according to two people with direct knowledge of this meeting. including your brother. he had a simple message for the emir. cut it out. we know what you are doing. >> saudi arabia,

did the united states see it coming? guest: i don't think the united states saw it coming either. the events began in the run-up to the signing. that's what the united states was pushing. it was in the belief that the advantage of that would be that ukraine would get a free trade agreement with the e.u., and that was seen as really a great accomplishment toward economic and political reform in ukraine. e ukraine. i think that is what we were pushing. that was what we were pushing. yanukovych was wavering but didn't say no. they told ukraine on several occasions not to deal with nato, and that was not a strong issue in ukraine. there are not a majority of people that want to join nato, but the e.u. represented something different, and putin allowed those negotiations to proceed. when they got to a crisis point, intervened then. host: let's get one last phone call in here. go ahead. caller: i just wanted to make a quick point, and maybe also bring light the fact that we've seen both the media and political analysts always bring to the followed putin, obama, and our leaders. but we ha

, only inside the united states and that is because article to as the iccpr, which defines its scope says that a state party is bound to respect and ensure the right and the iccpr only to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction. as my predecessor, conrad harper said at the time, and this is dual requirement that establishes the treaty obligations applied only if both conditions are satisfied. an individual must be under united states jurisdiction and within united states territory. and now the negotiating position of the united states of the treaty confirms that interpretation. the phrase, within its territory was added at the request of the head of the u.s. delegation, eleanor roosevelt at the time in 1950 and she explained that quote, the purpose of the proposed addition is to make it clear that the draft covenant would apply only to persons within the territory and subject to the jurisdiction of the contracting states. there was a vote held on that addition and that addition was adopted 822-1950. subsequent efforts to change that have failed him

oil is fueling the revolutions over there and oil imported into the united states. by the way right now we import in the united states six-point 3 million barrels of oil a day. 6.3 million barrels. that is our achilles heel. that is what makes us weak so what does this proposal say? takes the dirtiest oil in the world build a pipeline have the u.s. take all the environmental risk bring it to port arthur texas and then export it. by the way we are having a big debate yesterday about exporting natural gas that could be used to move our vehicles from oil over to natural gas and have it be here in united states. what do the people who are on this committee say? we should start exporting our natural gas too but we are to export our young men and women over to the middle east so we can protect imports. we don't have self-sufficiency and natural gas in united states. we import it. we don't have self-sufficiency and oil. we imported so this is a national security issue. it's an economic issue, it's a any fixturing issue. it's a climate issue. now i heard the senator from ten

these are areas where the united states and the west already cooperate. he united states weighs it's response, it's going to have to take that into account. it doesn't want to make an already bad situation even worse. >> ben wedeman on the ground in crimea. how present are russian forces and pro russian forces on the streets? are they manning roadblocks, intercepting people, checking people's identity papers? are people able to freely move about? >> life really seems to be going on pretty much as normal, the russians are sort of stationed around ukrainian military bases, as i said before, they were at this ferry port, but we drove for hours and hours throughout crimea today, and we didn't see any russians. no trucks, no men, nothing. and so they don't really interfere with the daily life of people going around. going about their business, they're concentrated in very specific areas. you see them at the airport. but they're just -- just two or three walking around, they're not actually involved in the operations of facilities like airports, so it's a very b

it lows the banks to give use united states prosecutors hits and clues that might help the united states in the hunt for tax evaders instead of a straight list of accounts that existed before august 2008 are not even covered. united states has been told to piece the clues together, go on a treasure hunt trying to identify accounts, using very li limited information while the swiss banks get immunity from prosecution. a swiss court turned down a u.s. treaty request for client names ruling the fact a swiss account was disclosed wasn't enough to justify the swiss secrecy laws. the swiss found preserving bank secrecy more important than supporting united states effort to prosecute tax evasion. after they overcame the 4700 accounts, many predicted the swiss secrecy wouldn't impede anymore. in 2008, testimony before the subcommittee pledged to act interjecting. kevin o'connor testified that quote we will not be deterred. we will pursue other formal and informal efforts of maintaining the formal efforts we seek. he said this includes the use of john doe summons and grand jury subpoenas close qu

increase in the gas prices inside united states it will be the end all for economical polisario for mr obama because mr obama is speaking about telling off of factories from asia to united states and the main argument is cheap gas because cheap gas means she put it through city eve there will be no cheap gas even there will be no she put it through such it there will be no economic growth inside united states so that is why i absolutely sure that that now we can hear a lot of political in which you waited to slogans serious elegy exit from united states but the main aim for united states in my opinion is not to struggle with the rush of the main aim is to keep sheep with gas and cheap electricity inside you not to say so that is why united states will not buy the su a six point zero for ellen g. us speaking about next decade i tape it what it was what it made for energy bills to europe that i said. you know if the united states will begin the next with a full in g. and these gas will be not for europe it will be a festival for asia and the reason is also

quite explicit agreement that washington would defend the gulf state in exchange for oil contracts and the unitedstates no longer needs that much saudi oil and the nature of security threats has also changed so i wonder if it's possible. sooner or later the united states and saudi arabia will have to part ways well first of all i'd like to address something that you said right before your question which is how this conflict started as americans see it the way this conflict started was a russian supported dictator. slaughter of his people when they went out on the street and peaceably demonstrated as well as arresting and torturing teenagers so that is how we see how this goes well you see how the u.s. and the saudis way because you are told that this conflict started this way as somebody who was on the ground in syria all those three years ago i can tell you that you know there were snipers there were provoke attorneys there were saudi agents there on the scene so obviously the tactics. are not to be defended you know his indiscriminate use of force but i wonder if the united states would react i

the same in the united states with the twitter. talk about the significance of ali baba and weibo going public. what kind of advantage do they see doing it in the united states? >> i think the capital markets in the u.s. is a little better for shares. for controlling the company. moreover, this shows for alibaba to grow, they have to start in other areas like international. there is speculation they will start to go into u.s. markets and businesses selectively. but a big question, it is set up to do business in the u.s.? given that the infrastructure, you see amazon and ebay, can alibaba get into it? >> i think so very selectively. alibaba is focusing on cross-border growth. it started that way you to get the chinese merchant does internationally. it can certainly do it for b2c, the luxury brand going into china. and also goods from china exported to the u.s. >> alibaba has quite an operation and in the united states. on the b2b side, u.s. businesses get their goods through alibaba.com. maybe a random ingredient to a special kind of

we have had a long and historic relationship with the united states. ring the 40's, 50's, and 60's when the cold war was at its height, the saudi arabian and united states worked closely on many issues. afghanistan was one. the middle east, you had terrible things happening. soviet encroachment. some parties, and the kingdom and in other states worked closely. the ultimate cooperation happened when saddam hussein invaded kuwait. we had half a million american soldiers on saudi soil. >> to the consternation of someone like osama bin laden. >> and nonetheless -- >> as our member, you met with somebody. >> to get bin laden handed over to the kingdom. the united states stood by us. we needed a friend to stand by us. we stuck by the united states when they needed a friend to stand by them. i trust united states. >> in the first gulf war? >> and previous to that, and subsequent to that. do you believe that the president and his leadership has weakened america? what's your president has had a tough time. his first term was spent trying to take over the problem

dealing with the united states first. and then we are going to lead by example what we are doing here today. >> on the previous question, do you see any need for reforms for programs in section 702, such aspirin? >> you know, those programs are under different authority. we oversee them. we have lots of conversations about what they are. and that is an overseas-based program. and i don't believe you want to bring that in to some domestic discussion. that is a very program with a very different set of authorities which is heavily overseen by the committee. i'm not sure we ought to try to mix the two. this is the program that caused the angst. that bulk collection of metadata. we believe it's a pretty big agreement here today that says we found a bipartisan way to end the government collecting in bulk that metadata and found a new way to protect the united states. >> there is a separate matter. there is someone -- many high-tech c.e.o.'s lobbying in washington having concerns about it. you are saying the main problems -- is

here, the united states' position used to be very strong. you look at the proceedings of the u.n. general assembly in december of 1948, when the resolution was being adopted, calling on israel to repatriate. they shamed not be pawned of the a political settlement. the position was we will deal with the refugee issue when, and if we get recognition from the arab states, and, indeed, he was saying, no, this is humanitarian issue to be dealt with. the united states voted in favor of general assembly resolution 194 that was adopted then, and every year thereafter when it was reiterated by the general assembly up until the mid-90s, the united states voted in favor of those reiterations of general assembly resolution 194, and that, then, we stopped. now, of course, israel has a peace agreement with egypt, with jordan, and it negotiates an agreement with israel, and the rationale, if that was the real rationale, they should be prepare to accept the refugees. this not pressed by the united states in the negotiation at all. it couldn't save it in the

the united states said "don't go into crimea, don't take crimea, and they did", now the united statesays, "don't take eastern ukraine, don't take eastern ukraine." what other hammer does the u.s. have. you mentioned the cold war earlier, and what is different about today verses the cold war is the russian economy is exposed and integrated and now you are into a contest between vladimir putin and western leaders about costs: europe, in particular, which has - does a great deal of business with russia has the ability to hurt russia, but has to mag the costs in terms of the impact. >> and russia has the ability to hurt europe and the united states as well, right. >> europe in particular. you know, the united states has some contacts with russia, not as extensive as in europe. >> i'm talking natural gas. >> but also what the united states has over the long run is now a new energy card, and probably should begin to deploy the card so that over time russian leverage regarding the energy card is reduced. >> i guess what i'm asking is how deep does the united states want to get foo this -- in

the united states asserted that this was not a precedent. ny other countries chose not to recognize it as an independent country, including russia. the question of self determination and national sovereignty is one of those great gray areas of international law. it depends on the circumstances usually. both sides can assert either side in terms of rights under international law. what is glaring in this case is obviously what has happened in crimea is not an immediate kind of reaction to human rights violations or a structured vote on referendum. but a very juried operation by this -- hurried operation to be conducted while the occupied militarily. host: we talked about the steps necessary to resolve it. proposed referendum on the future crimea would violate the degrading constitution, and violate international law. any discussion about the future of ukraine must include the legitimate government of ukraine. beyond we are very much the time when borders can be redrawn over the head of democratic leaders. while we take these steps, i want to be

the united states showing its the united states showing its continued international leadership has organized a forum over the last several years that's been able to help eliminate that threat in a consistent way. >> and of course, the president was asked that question that american presidents are always asked by white house correspondents who sometimes like to pretend that the president of the united states is the king of the world. whenever another head of state makes a choice that the american president doesn't like, that president is always asked if america's influence in the world, that president's in the world is on the decline. >> in china, in syria, in egypt and now in russia, we' seen you make strong statements, issue warnings that have been ignored. are you concerned that america's influence in the world, your influence in the world is on the decline? >> well, jonathan, i think if the premise of the question is that whenever the united states objects to an action and other countries don't immediately do exactly what we want that that's been the norm, that would pretty much erase mos

american leadership not only in the region now in the way of our secretary of state, but also the president of the unitede live airways to comment specifically on the russian encouragement into the crimean peninsula. what it means not only for russia, the international community, but also for ukrainians themselves as they head forward towards elections. the president made specific references

the military spending is second to the united states. the u.s. unced it would be shrinking its military, reducing troop numbers, $496 billion. china's current budget is paling in comparison to the united states. it will increase that to $132 billion, a 10% increase in military spending last year. the budget announcement was made at the ends of the national people's congress. protesters were driven away by security officers. >>> as china increases military spending its rival is cutting back. the u.s. navy reduced its order for the stealth fighter jet. the deployment is years behind schedule and billions over budget. >> the joint strike fighter better known as the f35 is supposed to be all things to all branches of the u.s. military. capable of super-sonic speed and land and take off. since the pentagon unveiled in 2001 turning it into jets is problematic. >> almost all is twice as long, it's delivered so slowly, it's twice as long and gives you half the performance you thought you were getting at the beginning. >> the special helmet makes them dizz

but because it does not have an refineries an unlikely partnership has emerged from the united statesand this south american nation. >> years ago even under hue go chavez, when he's talking about our being the devil or some of these rhetorical positions, the bottom line is that the united states is the closest largest market for venezuelan oil. >> and the u.s. is thirsty for oil. despite a recent energy boon it still imports 40% of its oil needs. of those imports 8% comes from venezuela which accounts for nearly 1 million barrels a day. refiners process venezuelan crude in places like texas and illinois, adding american jobs before sending the refined product or gas lean back to venezuela. >> there is a lot at stake here for the venezuelan government to show responsible stewardship inside of its own country and the united states has to temper its response considering the fact that venezuelan oil is a major supply source for the united states. >> but some venezuelan officials say their country could pump more of the oil business back into their own economy by investing more in domestic

putin was warning the united states about these dangers in the united states didn't take them seriously enough. obviously from the russian perspective than just did this of russia's own problem in the north caucasus. the issue again has been that the united states has been reluctant to classify many of these fundamentalists terrorists and chechnya in the same way that it classifies al qaeda operatives because of these other issues that surround it. now, the counter terrorism cooperation did work in the fall of 2001. there we were and president bush certainly endorse the russian view. we are now talking there was a second chechen war that happened shortly after putin became prime minister but for a rather short period there were certainly alignments on this and working together in russia gave us information about some of the people in afghanistan that enabled the nato effort to succeed at least in the fall of 2001. then the situation and went back to the status quo where we focused a lot more on what was happening in the north caucasus. he began to believe that when russia talks about te

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person in the united states. may be somewhat technical point but there seems to be a quirk in the statute. it says that you can target people reasonably to be outside the united states. you cannot reverse a target some outside the united states for the purpose to target a particular known person reasonably believed to be in the united states your does that permit targeting of persons outside the united states with the intent of getting information about u.s. persons not in the united states? >> no. >> why not? >> there's a separate provision that bars targeting u.s. persons outside the united states. so if you were doing that, you were trying to target a u.s. person outside the united states, you couldn't do that spin reverse targeting procedure -- >> i don't know if you'd call that reverse targeting. >> there is another statutory provision under 702. spent on the talking, i agree, you can target a u.s. person outside attorney. but what if i find a non-u.s. person i know is intimidation with the u.s. person is als

the citation. >> santiago areceivey, united states army, the president of the united states of america authorized by act of congress march 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor to specialist 4 santiago j. erevia, united states army for gallantry at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. santiago j. erevia distinguished himself above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a adio telephone operator in irst battalion air mobile, 101 airborne division near tamky republic of vietnam on may 21, 1969. specialist 4 erevia rendered first aid to several casualties and the rest of the plaptoon moved forward. he came under intense hostile fire from four bunkers. although he could have taken cover with the rest of the element, he chose a course of action. with heaven my fire directed at him, he moved in full view of the hostile gunners as he proceeded to crawl from one wounded man to the other gathering ammunition. armed with two m-16 rifles, he charged toward the enemy positions behind the suppressive fire of the two rifles. under intense fire as he continued

the united states has much to gain by expanding trade and services. as many of you know, we are the world's leading services trader, and our trade surplus and services grew over $200 billion. however, a recent study published again by the renowned peterson institute -- perhaps jeff will want to talk a bit more about this one too -- estimates that the exports of tradeable business services could be five times larger, a dumps of about $800 billion. if services achieve the same expert potential as manufactured goods. so what is preventing the the united states from increasing our exports when our services are so advanced? well, one of the biggest reasons is the patchwork of discriminatory laws and regulations that other countries put in place to curb competition. let me give you just two examples of what i'm talking about. in some cases companies that rely on cloud-based delivery cannot operate in many countries unless they agree first to establish data centers there. in other situations, foreign companies -- sorry, foreign countries adopt measures that s

what would it take for the united states to make up the flack? ring in the oil trader and senior market analyst and joe, i've seen a bunch of different time lines. that would it take for the united states to be a factor in this market? >> you know, pro energy policy, obviously this is something the united states really should have done years ago. you know, it's very short sided on the u.s.'s part and one of the main reasons that vladmir putin went into crimea in the first place was because he wanted to continue his dominance over european natural gas supplies. one of the biggest concerns was that in the ukraine, in crimea, they were talking about developing their own supply. you know, using u.s. technology like fracking to reduce their dependence on russian gas. vladmir putin didn't want that to happen. it's one of the reasons he moved him to the ukraine and he was betting that the united states wouldn't do anything about it because we can't even approve a pipeline from canada, let alone natural gas. jenna: the pipeline is key to natural gas expor

what is at stake for the united states? what american national interests are on the line when people in other countries argue over a territory and in international board changes. prime minister yatsenyuk comes to washington hoping the u.s. will back its threats with action. president obama hosted his first meeting with ukraine's interim prime minister yatsenyuk wednesday. >> the interests of the united states are solely in making sure that the people of ukraine are able to determine their own destiny. that is something that we here at the united states believe in deeply. we know that you believe deeply in it as well, and you can rest assured that you would have our strong support as you move forward in these difficult times. >> the two leaders discussed peaceful ends. the goal, get russia to accept it's sovereignty and it's new government. >> they cannot dictate to them how they should arrange their affairs. that is not something that can be done with the barrel of a gun pointed at you. >> with fight for our freedom. we figh

and i'll start with the united states. th the united states needs to get done more than anything else is to remember that it is, so to speak, the managing partner of the world, not just of the atlantic world but of the world. it has to do what i was taught to do over 40 years of diplomacy. that is, to work every day to keep the structures going. this is what we did between 1945-1995, or 2000 that, that vocation has been lost. we don't do that anymore. you just have to see the way both the bush and obama administrations related to europe to see, in a most sent relationship, this is simply been ignored. there are a lot of reasons i won't go into them, but the presidents give it towards asia is a good example, as if we've never been involved in asia. i think of something called the vietnam war which was quite an engagement, or maybe there was world war ii. we were in asia right up to our necks, but somehow for whatever reason people, and i can tell you, i hear this from endless numbers of americans who come to europe, even the

it's not good for the united states. it's not good for the world, but it is least good for russia and the russian people. we've seen the impact already on the russian economy that ambassador rice noted, in further escalation will result in further isolation and higher costs that russia will incur because of these actions. i don't have a schedule for the next time the president will address this issue, but it is clearly one of concern, one that he's been speaking about breaking the for the past several weeks. and i expect he will in the future, we pursue this matter with a clear eyed focus on our national security interests on our commitments to our allies through the nato alliance, and our commitment to the ukrainian people and their right as a sovereign nation to choose their own future. >> one question about that expression of support for the new ukrainian government. how much do you feel it undercuts your message that the loan guarantees are -- [inaudible] >> we believe that there is broad support on capitol hill for p

the citation. >> santiago areceivey, united states army, the president of the united states of america authorized by act of congress march 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor to specialist 4 santiago j. erevia, united states army for gallantry at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. santiago j. erevia distinguished himself above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a adio telephone operator in irst battalion air mobile, 101 airborne division near tamky republic of vietnam on may 21, 1969. specialist 4 erevia rendered first aid to several casualties and the rest of the plaptoon moved forward. he came under intense hostile fire from four bunkers. although he could have taken cover with the rest of the element, he chose a course of action. with heaven my fire directed at him, he moved in full view of the hostile gunners as he proceeded to crawl from one wounded man to the other gathering ammunition. armed with two m-16 rifles, he charged toward the enemy positions behind the suppressive fire of the two rifles. under intense fire as he continued

the eu is united with the united states, nato is united, and moving the meeting from sochi to right behind me in brussels come this june, and the president spoke largely about the impact of the sanctions on russia. >> in order for russia to feel the brunt -- the impact of these sanctions that it will have some impact on the global economy as well on all of the countries that are represented here today. >> and the president talking about the energy sanctions, recognizing that europe is much more vulnerable. interesting crediting the u.s. saying the u.s. has been blessed by what is known as frac-ing. >> even though that energy is being produced in record numbers in the united states, it is not necessarily being loaded on ships or kept in the united states. we're going to go back live now to brussels, as we listen to the new questions coming in. >> reporter: what more do you expect the united states to do to help the european union do to reduce its dependance on russian oil, and are you concerned that obstacles in congress will prevent you on achieving your goals on trade and also on ukraine?

the united states is the leader of nato. the united states has leverage with russia. the united states cannot allow this aggression to stand. it is a foreign country invading another country. the u.s., britain, and russia signed on to an agreement, called the buddha pest agreement that protects ukraine's territorial territory. this is where it is going to get tricky. they are obligated to protect it. i know they don't want to go in militarily. to say it is over is to give up the plot. that is the whole problem with putin. people have been bending over and not resisting putin for all the years he has been in power. >> let's talk about the problem with vladimir putin. in the "new york times" there was a statement that jumped off the page from german chancellor, angela merkel. she told mr. obama after speaking with mr. putin, she was not sure he was in touch with reality. people briefed on the call said, in another world. >> that jumped off to me as well. i was very, very disturbed by that. whatever we might think of putin and he is obviously neither a democrat nor does h

to a larger extent than the united states. so these are economic questions. national security questions for the europeans which the united states is trying to help them through. the 21 people named in the european union sanctions list today are identified in that list as something that the united states very much wanted to see. they wanted what the u.s. did in sanctions to be paired with something that the europeans would do. so it didn't look like a u.s.-only action. so i think you saw obama reaching out to the europeans and saying don't worry. we will step with you as we go forward in this. >> so as he lays out what the united states and what the eu is going to do next, also the question that we've been discussing is what vladimir putin is going to do next. is the overriding concern here, anne, something involving eastern ukraine? >> yes. the overriding concern is what will putin do next, and will he make a further move beyond crimea? there have been some indications that he might. and you -- president obama opened his remarks by condemning the moves of rus

action. >> president obama hosted his first meeting with arseniy yatsenyuk. >> the interests of the united states is making sure that the people of ukraine can determine their own destiny. that is something that here in the united states we believe in deeply. i know it's something you believe in deeply as well. and you can rest assured that you will have our strong support as you move forward during the difficult times. >> the two leaders discussed ways to peacefully end the russian military intervention. the goal - get russia to recognise ukrainian sovereign city, integrity and the new government. >> they cannot have a country outside of ukraine dictate how they should arrange their affairs. that's not something that can be done with the barrel of a gun point at you. >> mr president,it's all about the freedom. we fight for our freedom and independence. we fight for our sovereignty and will never surrender. >> as the diplomatic wheels turp, the situation is tense. the world waits to see what the people in crimea will do at the ballot box. the referendum will ask whether crimea should breakaway an

we are dealing with the united states first. and then we are going to lead by example what we are doing here today. >> on the previous question, do you see any need for reforms for programs in section 702, such as prism? >> you know, those programs are under different authority. we oversee them. we have lots of conversations about what they are. and that is an overseas-based program. and i don't believe you want to bring that in to some domestic discussion. that is a very program with a very different set of authorities which is heavily overseen by the committee. i'm not sure we ought to try to mix the two. this is the program that caused the angst. that bulk collection of metadata. we believe it's a pretty big agreement here today that says we found a bipartisan way to end the government collecting in bulk that metadata and found a new way to protect the united states. >> there is a separate matter. there is someone -- many high-tech c.e.o.'s lobbying in washington having concerns about it. it sounds like you are saying the main

the united states and europe stand united on this issue. we are united in our support for ukraine and for the need to provide economic assistance, to help stabilize this economy. we are united in our commitment to europe's security. we are united in our determination to impose costs for russia's actions. i want to of the way, thank the presidents for their leadership they have shown during this difficult time. i want to commend the e.u. for the important steps taken already to make sure russia feels the costs of its behavior in ukraine by implementing visa bans and freezing assets and designating individuals for sanctions, as well as canceling a number of engagements with russia. and making it clear that if russia stays on its current course, the consequences for the russian economy will continue to grow. of course all this comes atop the measures and sanctions the united states and others around the world are imposing on russia, and taken together this is the most significant sanctions russia's faced since the end of the cold war. moreover,

the united states also does not have the leverage it wants in historical terms, invading countries isd states knows about from really raw experience. >> what a bunch of crap. joining us now from miami the purveyor of bernard goldberg.com. bernard goldberg. this drives me crazy. he is the guy costas was referring to remnick. russian expert he has been there many times. he has been a very very avowed left winger who makes the moral equivalency that the united states has invaded some country dries to wit putin is doing when it isn't even close. and you say? >> before i get agreeing with you, let me just say what rim nic is saying, i think, is that the united states is going to have going too lose some leverage with putin and lose the ability to lecture him about ininvestigating other countries because we have also invaded other countries putin remnick said, putin uses this on a daily basis on government controlled television to build himself up at the expense of the united states here is where i stop you there. >> here is where i do agree with. >> you i don't want to you agree with me ye

well i did the royal royal you know i think it will be. dangerous decision for united states to become the real exporter of ellen g. . because the situation is very simple not guess prices in the united states from head to fab they extreme achieve them much cheaper than the europe plan of course so seriously cheaper than that on asian markets and if united states all will really begin an expert of elegy it will see the increase in the gas prices inside united states it will be the end all for economical polisario for mr obama because mr obama speaking about her talking of full of factories from asia to united states and the main argument is she guessed because cheap gas means she put it through city even there will be no cheap gas you know there will be no cheap put it through cities but there will be no economic growth inside united states so that is why i absolutely assure that the now we can hear a lot of political in which you waited to slogans serious elegy exit from united states but the main aim for united states in my opinion is not to struggle with the rush of the ma

workers refine it into a product that will be used in the united states. other part of that is if we take the oil and refine it in canada and then move the end product, gasoline, to the united states to use here, frankly, that is a more volatile and dangerous product than the oil. -- oil is safer than gasoline and safer than the lighter crude to transfer. mentionednt that you is a call to action because the pipeline is safer than trains. stillality is trains will carry some of the soil because -- because -- carry some of this oil but i think the pipeline is a safer way to transport the oil. this is from robert lambert on the gm issue -- i think there will be a lot of discussion about whether or not it would have. that could have been a motivating factor and that's one of the questions we will have to ask. from south carolina, good morning. caller: good morning, i want to ask a question. is there any relationship between the oil companies wanting tofrack the east and west ukraine and the keystone pipeline? using theer than modern technology to get to the sec

that is where the united states needs to be. and i agree with the minister that the critical part is some form or another of removing the exports and not to prevent trades being made that are at the advantage of our allies and ourselves and also dealing with potential problems with natural gas were introduction. dealing with issues of shale gas and regulations that could hurt it's production. >> mr. goldwyn do you have anything to add? >> i have about five. the first is diplomatic. the second is i started a program called the global shale gas when i was at the state department. it is called the unconventional gas technology program and we could do more to help other countries develop shale gas. and the third thing is accelerate to connect with the global market gap. and encourage the european leaders to invest in the european markets. i think the european union could give credit support to build the networks and projects. and i think we should as we have encouraged for decades oil production here at home and overseas. the more su

the united nations. vladimir putin ratified the treaty to formally annex crimea. the eu and the united states have responded by expanding sanctions on high-ranking russian officials. president putin and spokesperson have said that the sanctions will not go unnoticed. governmentine, the signed an agreement with the european union forging closer economic ties. it is the same agreement that former ukraine president yanukovych refused to sign triggering protests in november. i am pleased to have vitaly churkin back at this table. the me how russia sees annexing of crimea. but we see it as a historic fact and day. separation,rs of crimea and russia can finally be reunified. something on the desperation of the people all the crimea all of those years. you remember crimea has been a part of russia for centuries. around 60 years ago, arbitrarily by his own decision, he transferred crimea to ukraine. at that point, there was a little grumbling. at least crimea stayed within the same continent. tried to cutople their political adopting a certain cousin to should giving them autonomy, but, kiev changed