steve sestanovich. thanks. >> thanks. >> charlie: back in a moment. stay with us. >> charlie: reporters jonathan allen and amie parnes are here, they wrote a new book "hrc: state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton." it tells the story of hillary clinton's political arc from defeated presidential candidate to chief diplomat to presumed presidential nominee. the authors call it one of the great political comebacks in history. jonathan allen is the white house correspondents for bloomberg and former politico. amie parnes is the chief white house correspondent correspondee hill. how did this idea to do this book at this time come about from two different people? >> that's a good question. so jon and i both worked at politico, as he said. we were very fascinated in looking at her time in state. it hadn't been well covered. sure, she had a press corps traveling with her, but we said this is a woman who was going to run for president. we wanted to look at what she did in the past four years, if she was capable, if she would pass the test and voters w

i am pleased to have steve sestanovich back in the studio. ukraine. russia. where are we? likes it seems we're looking at a rolling dismemberment of ukraine. and i think it may turn out to be too strong a statement. i hope so. right now, the way the russians seem to be handling this is to challenge the authority of the warnnian government and to that if they try to assert in the eastern provinces where the support is weaker that russia will respond. georgia in 2008, the threat of war. >> they're threatening war if one happens? happens?t an attempt to oust the pro-russian separatist groups that have taken over buildings and squares in eastern ukraine, in small cities and towns. they intended to do. >> the ukrainian government has said a number of times that they want to do this. they have held back because they know the use of force may not be supported. it may not be successful. it delegitimized the previous government. president yannick kovacic killed so many people in february. -- resident? yanukovicht killed so many and had to flee the country. because theyious do not w