documentary on angela davis. making of that documentary from the film maker approached you wanting to do what? in making interested a film about the trial. i had previously been aware of her work because she did a --derful film >> who ran for president. >> the first black woman to run for president in this country, yes. i have been approached many times by people who wanted to do films, but have been reluctant. i did not think it would be fair productive to have a film properly focused on me. i knew shola lynch wanted to tell the story of the trial. that would also mean telling the that of the campaign developed all over the country and all over the world around the demand for my freedom. and she did quite an amazing job .f retrieving archival footage i've often pointed out, there were things that i did not know until she made that film. i had not seen a lot of archival footage because i was in jail when it was shown on television. talks explain what you were imprisoned for and acquitted of. with threearged capit

angela, along with this very exciting news about the rest protein, just in the past couple of closer to north mos there's been research that promises to identify genetic markers and people who aren't even suffering yet, who have shown no symptoms, are things starting to actually bear fruit? every couple of years there's new research, or exciting discovery, and people start to excitedly speculate about well, we have turned a corner, we are getting close, going to be able to do something, and i'm not sure that a lot of that has really changed the trajectory for people who have this disease. yaw knows to true that it is one of the -- but people don't realize as much as alzheimers research, is it's still a pretty young field. just over 30 years old. is most of the major advances. going from the alzheimerss association funding the first am lloyd studies, ten years ago to actually products in the market today. and i think there is a real sense of excitement, i think particularly with a recent gains and increased federal funding, there's hoping there will be more dollars available for promi

this. >> angela?as major, but i also really enjoyed bette midler's performance of "wind beneath my wings." it means something very special to my family. i had a cousin who died of aids-related complications when i was in the seventh grade. and this song really got us through. and on the "12 years a slave" part, i think it's important to acknowledge that yes we have come quite a long way. but i was tweeting last night that we still are not post-racial, even though we have clearly made some major strides. >> yeah, i wrote that column today myself. but we're talking about the awards. but let's talk about the movie. here is a clip of lupita nyong'o in "12 years a slave." >> i went to master charles' plantation. >> you admit it? >> yes, freely. and you know why? i got this from mistress shaw. won't even grant me so much to clean with. i stink so much i make myself gag. 500,000 pounds of cotton day in, day out. more than any man here. and for that i will be clean. that's all i ask. and this here what i went

we're talking about the german chancellor, angela merkel.an todd is with us with more on this part of the story. she is a very significant player. >> very significant, wolf. she is seen now as increasingly maybe the person who could be the most central to resolving this crisis. her diplomats are the ones pushing many of the diplomatic initiatives that are actually taking some traction right now with ukraine. germany has huge economic leverage with russia. they are a huge trading partner with russia. they buy about a third of their natural gas from russia. they export technology in cars to russia. it is a huge relationship. vladimir putin certainly does not want to see that, you know, take a bad turn at this point. but also, there is a real personal dynamic between angela merkel and vladimir putin. where putin really does respect her. she is a tough negotiator. she is a very pragmatic person, does not she also has a great dynamic. it's in her political dna. she grew up in east germany. vladimir putin was stationed in russia as an officer. he

and, it is this change -- >> that we control. >> angela, angela. >> let chris finish. >> this is nothing that i'm personally concerned about. you're seeing businesses, who are clearly in favor. i'm proud to say that i'm pro business on this issue. angela is anti-business. >> oh, stop lying, chris. you're lying, chris. >> we're out of time. chris and angela, you guys sort of reversed roles here. thanks very much. >> no, no, no. good to see you. >> nice yellow, angela. >> she's hoping for sunshine, too. >>> have you reached billionaire status, gregg? >> no. i'm a long way away. >> dreaming of it? >> i've given up the dream. >> how is your bank account looking? do you know there are more american millionaires hitting the streets right now? >> that's right. >> and we're going to tell you how you could become one of them. if you can't earn it, maybe you can win it. because megamillions is going to make somebody very rich. we're certainly going to try. >>> but also our top story, the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight 370. we're going to talk to captain chuck nash coming up on what

angela is, is an activist.onia nasir hopes to one day run for office, and jenika, a young writer, passionate about having positive representations of young women in media. monica, we heard that girls started to lose confidence in middle school, and what was different for you that put you on the path to leadership. >> i think it's because i started theater in middle school, and i was actually very shy, but when i started theater, that's what taught me to be more confident. and when i became aware of the issues that women and girls face, that's when i got involved in girl be heard and got it use theater to empower others. >> the community has been tweeting in, lisa: lisa. whether or not words like bossy can be used by millennials... angela, i want to get to you in this conversation. dish words like bossy, can they be reclaimed by women as a sense of empowerment, or can we do away with them because it's celebrating obnoxious behavior? >> right, so i definitely think there has been a lot of debate on whether or not

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angela merkel has an interesting relationship with him. she talks to him more than any other global leader. pretty well every other day or more. they are old adversaries who understand each other. she's also, it should be said, listening to voices within germany who say our economies are entwined. let's not be too hasty about sanctions. so she's trying to weigh knowledge, if you like, of president putin. the polish voice being a lot tougher. but business voices within this country saying just go easy. >> steve 6evans live from berli. >> death sentences for the fatality gang rape of a 23-year-old student in december 2012. the court said that the crime falls into a rare category that allows capital punishment. one committed suicide in jail. the four men have the option of appealing at the supreme court. >>> with china, business time. it's aaron at the peoples national congress. >> it seems a desire from beijing. it wants change but can it. new figures out today indicate that the output, all the stuff that they spin out, rose 8.6% in january

angela, go ahead. >> if you do not know your history, you're destined to repeat it. after world war ii we did cut budgets and weren't ready for the war in korea. having said that, even though we have missiles, we still have war and we still need warriors on the ground. we can't do this just dealing with cyberattacks and technology. we need to build up our military, not deplete it. >> we know our forces are the best, the brightest and bravest. >> and i agree with that. >> what do you think of the president's foreign policy and the critics? quickly. >> a few things, especially as we're talking about this issue. this is being talked about about our forces and what to do with them since donald rumsfeld, who has also said -- then on to secretary gates. i think we have a president that doesn't saber rattle. i think we have a president that got us out of two wars, and i was listening to fox news this morning and some of the hawks and what they were saying about president obama. i think he's done a great job at lating our military and our foreign policy. >> he is the command

that a lot of folks talk about as well, angela. is pike lee right, angela rye?spike lee is the director of the famous "do the right thing." he touches race relations like nobody's business in that film. so when you have that kind of context, you know this is someone that is not a bigot. this is an issue that he's been personally impacted by. he talked about the way in which his father who plays an instrument had the police called on him when he's done it for decades and he owns his home. he's talking about the disruption of gentrification, the issue of housing affordability and what we can do to ensure that when people come into neighborhoods and they become more integrated over time that it doesn't disrupt and move out the people that have been there for years. i've seen it happen in my own hometown in seattle, washington, where my friends that i grew up with around seward park now live in kent, washington, because they can't afford to live anywhere else. that's the part of gentrification that needs to be addressed. and i think that is what he was trying to do,

start with angela?she says you were harassing her daughter. >> bergman: you say that angela mendoza misunderstood you. >> bergman: she says that you asked her for her daughter. >> oh my god. >> bergman: that you promised to take care of them if her daughter had kids with you. >> bergman: is juan marin credible? >> very good question. is he credible? on a number of instances, we believe the answer is no. >> bergman: do you see how some people would say there was something going on, but they were looking the other way? they left the management, for instance, of the rattlesnake ranch in sunnyside to a man who was possibly deeply flawed. >> i think that there are some elements to that statement that are reasonable. and i think it's reasonable to say that evans fruit trusted juan marin, and in retrospect probably shouldn't have trusted him to the level that they did. >> bergman: you've said that in fact, this case has made a big difference here in washington. >> i think that this case has fundamentally chang

let's talk about angela merkel saying to mr. obama that putin doesn't seem to be all there, after speaking with putin, she's not sure he is in touch with reality. how do you interpret this? >> well, i don't know the details obviously because i've left the government so i don't have a -- >> from your own knowledge of putin. >> your own knowledge of putin and of merkel. >> well, i think two things are important to understand. first of all, the russian government including president putin are extremely angry at how things have evolved inside ukraine and angry at their clients. their one-time client president yanukovych for how weak he behaved in their view. i saw all of the senior leadership right before i left and this was a view i heard many times, and so therefore, they are striking back and trying to do something independent inside ukraine because they feel like they lost when supporting mr. yanukovych. second, putin is in an aggressive position right now. you remember they just came off the olympics and a lot of nationalist pr

visitesident wanted to the holocaust memorial with angela merkel.he president became concerned g ping would you -- would be china over deadwood the japan -- would be japan over the head with this. is very-- angela merkel concerned about being used like that. >> getting back to that special relationship between china and germany, we spoke a little bit about china. you believe that everything is firmly at hand. if the government were so to go >>t., they could control i think the trade links are very strong. he put into context, if there were some kind of accident in china, we don't think would be sufficient to dl the european economy. to do rail the european economy. if you compare the exports from german to europe with exports to china, the chinese exports are quite small. effect it would have an to the supply chain, but i don't stimulateould recovered completely. spain ise a lot of -- slowly getting better. other any opportunities in the periphery countries? >> absolutely. as we go for value. go for the banks, for example. go for the regional champi

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like the red carpet treatment awaited angela merkel when she visited london.he was given the rare honor of addressing both houses of parliament. david cameron was hoping for some or in his efforts to reform the eu. the german counselor did not oblige. i expect my speech to pave the way for parliamentary reform. i am afraid that people who think that are in for a disappointment. >> she was also pessimistic regarding london demands on freedom of movement. the two leaders stressed the things they do agree on. >> we both want to see change in your. we believe that change is possible. clean later met with the 14. she stressed the importance of written for europe. >> germany's former president was acquitted on corruption charges on thursday. it ends the first trial of a german head of state. the court cleared him of wrongdoing. prosecutors claimed that he accepted payment of around 700 euros from a film producer. in exchange, he helped raise support for a movie project. the presiding judge called the amount peanuts and said there was no compelling evidence against t

next person is angela jenkins. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for this opportunity. with the others that are eager to serve in the va, i, too, have qualifications i'd like to go over briefly with you. i have been trying to be on the va commission before and unfortunately due to [speaker not understood] last year i was unable to be here and present my eagerness to serve. i am a 20-year citizen here in the city of san francisco and also a veteran of the first gulf war, commonly call now the gulf war retracting acronym level persian war. i did serve proudly as my father did before me and as my brother, all of us in my family have had the opportunity to represent the united states in the armed forces. my qualifications include being on the board of trustees of an international nonprofit. while on that board i had the opportunity to author unique legislation towards inclusion creating a pamphlet target towards black african-american which took five years in the production of successfully -- over those five years we were able to as a nonprofit produce that item which i am

some believe angela merkel might emerge as the key figure in this crisis.an todd explains why. >> reporter: it's no secret president obama's strained relationship with vladimir putin isn't helping in this crisis. but who can solve it? it may be the stoic daughter of a pastor, germany's chancellor, angela merkel. >> vladimir putin knows from experience with ms. merkel the last enemy he wants right now in europe is germany. >> reporter: he has huge, exports technology and cars to russia, but analysts say what makes merkel so crucial in this crisis is that she has something that obama doesn't. a personal connection with russia's president. >> they have a lot of connectivity, because putin speaks very fluent german and angela merkel herself speaks russian. >> reporter: she grew up in east germany under the communist system dominated by the soviets. putin served in east germany. merkel and putin are not friends but she has a realistic picture of the russian leader and by all accounts has shown him a certain savvy and toughness that he respects. several years ago

>> angelal co aa aal -- angela she did not come to one committee. not one of the three committee it is bill went through to speak for or against the bill. and -- to send information on a particular case, the bill itself is not even about marissa alexander. it has nothing to do with an -- an incident that happened some where else in the state to someone that's very senior and is really the -- part of the impetus that i'm sure the bill will tell thaw. it just so happens that it is coming up at a time when miss corey has decided that, you know, whatever, she is going to have her way and she wants to send miss alexander away for 60 years because that's what she has decided she wants to do, period. >> all right. thank you so much, state senator audrey gibson. they did not release that e-mail to the media. only to those 13 lawmakers. you can draw your conclusions from had a. now to an update on a voting rights story we have been following. a federal judge has just ordered. the u.s. election assistance commission to help both kansas and arizona enforce the

i think when angela merkel says he's in another world, it's that.t's not that he's taken leave of his senses but he's playing with a set of facts that are partly unfounded and partly very self-serving. and i think that's what you're seeing here. he's made a move and he's going to stand by it and justify it publicly even if he has to bend the facts a bit. >> it's fascinating to hear what you witness in meetings. do you have any specific example? i mean, it would be interesting to hear of things he thought about the u.s. or say which you just didn't feel were based in fact and were the result of misinformation by the people giving him information. >> well, the most amusing was a private meeting he had with president bush year and probably 2005, 2006. it was right after cbs fired dan rather and he said -- president bush talked to him about press freedom. he says, well, you don't have press freedom. dan rather made you mad and you fired him. president bush said, vladimir, please don't go in front of the press corps and use that example. people will thin

angela, your thoughts on this.ore low-wage workforce jobs than men do in this country. and many women are raising the ki kids, they don't get the opportunity to get the education they want and get stuck in a low-wage job so minimum wage would affect them. what has to happen, what has to change? >> i think you raised a good question with zerlina and that is what else can women do? i would submit this is not a women's problem alone. it is not a partisan issue. this should not even be debated. this should be something that all members of congress say we know we need a boost in our economy, we know we're recovering but we're still struggling just a bit. the best way to do that is to ensure that the minimum wage becomes a living wage and that means making sure to her last point that people can afford to keep the lights on so when it comes time for 2014 or 2016, folks are motivated to go to the polls. i'm thinking about a tupac song in the 90s when he says "it's hard to be legit and make your rent." we've got a lot of wo

. >> angela simpson is one of the four women assigned to atom 100. >> simpson, i think, is very scary individual. she's probably the only one in there that i take every precaution in the world to make sure my staff and myself are safe. >> i heard they said i was possessed by the devil. that's hilarious. isn't that beautiful? i told my kids when they were babies they saw a guy [ bleep ] behind a circle k. i told them that's how cops grow. so, yeah. i didn't know they would next week go [ bleep ] in the alley and try to grow a cop. that was not my intention. >> she seems to have a true gang type mentality. snitches get stitches and ditches. she'll stare you down and the hair on the back of your neck standing up. >> i've asked god a lot to spontaneously combust officers. >> where does that come from, your hatred of cops? >> that's not something i'll discuss. >> but simpson regularly illustrates her hatred of law enforcement officers through her drawings. >> here's one for my brother. i've got to send that to him. it's from the pigs in a blanket series. don't you love the pigs in a blanke

joining me now are angela rye and ryan grim.r being here. >> thanks, rev. >> thanks, reverend. >> ryan, why do democrats think they need to expose the koch brothers' influence in this election year? >> well, i think just the fact that they are spending more by themselves so far than pretty much anybody else at this point. i think a lot of what they're doing is they're trying to let the democratic base know, look, this is what we're up against in 2014. and they're hoping i think that the base will start kicking in these small dollar donations to fight back against the kochs. and what this really is about, and it doesn't get talked about much is climate change. the kochs are all about oil, coal, and tar sands. and everything that they do is geared around shrinking the power of the government to regulate the fossil fuel industry. the biggest threat to fossil fuels is the government saying, look, these fuels are destroying the planet, and we need to do something about it. they have taken what used to be a bipartisan issue. remember,

there's chancellor angela merkel of germany. you can see stephen harper of canada, the president of france, but this guy over here in the blue shirt, that is not vladimir putin. vladimir putin that day was home washing his hair. he sent the prime minister instead. he did not care to attend the g-8 summit. kicking a nation out of the g-8 is a big deal. watching what is going on in the world right now, it does not seem reasonable to conclude, however, that vladimir putin much cares about the g-8. it doesn't seem reasonable to conclude that vladimir putin cares more about the g-8 than he does about ukraine. and as president putin considers to be consolidating or at least escalating his military adventure into crimea, as he considers whether or not he's going to push russian troops even further beyond crimea into other parts of ukraine, would any of the options available to not just the united states but the international community actually make a difference? would any of the options that were on the table right now be enough to pus

. >>> my name is [speaker not understood] jenkins and i'm here to support the nomination of angela jenkins. she's actually my sister. and the reason she's in san francisco is when she was serving in the gulf war, what she said, we have a family history of service, both military and community service. and having a sister in the war was just such a difficult thing. but she actually had to leave to go to war a week after we lost our mother. and my sister taught me something. she said, [speaker not understood] to serve, i have to g. all of us tried to get her not to leave. and she did. so, one of the things i bribed her with when she returned to service was overcoming to san francisco. that's right, she's a resident of san francisco. i watched my sister, my experience and strategy and execution in public policy, again, i'm speaking from my knowledge of watching my sister as a veteran, her commitment and her passion, her everyday advocacy for the quality of life of veterans that she [speaker not understood] our family history of service. as life moves on, you kind of forget about things like ve

her name is angela simpson. >> simpson i think is a very scary individual. probably the only one in there that i take every precaution in the world to make sure my staff and myself are safe. she is the one in this whole jail that creeps me out, for a better word. >> i was the first person on the crew to get introduced to angela simpson, and upon meeting her, the first things that came out of her mouth when i approached her, she pretty much told me to go "f" myself. for someone to say, go "f" yourself, it's like, all right, welcome to jail. >> simpson is a very scary person. she is just by the nature of her crimes and the way that she has been here and just her manners and that, she just doesn't seem to have a lot of those inhibition controls that most people would, and because of that she can be very much a threat to staff. so we have to keep her in a very controlled setting. >> simpson was accused of kidnapping, torturing and murdering a man she believed to be a police informant. she has then said to have dismembered the corpse, set it on fire and to have t

. >>> german chancellor angela merkel threatens tougher sanctions for russia. >>> australia releases images of objects believed to be the first credible evidence of flight mh will have 370 as the search in the indian ocean intensifies. >>> investors are cheering the head of the luxury fashion group mulberry this morning. it's down after a major profit warning. >> announcer: you're watching "worldwide exchange," bringing you business news from around the globe. >> hi, everybody. if you're just tuning in, thanks for joining us on the show. you can see how the u.s. indications are for what we're going to be seeing this afternoon when the u.s. markets open. remember that the yellen effect took hold of u.s. markets yesterday. we're just seeing markets being called a couple of points lower, if anything, not by many much. we're really interested to see whether this will last or whether it's a temporary bleep in the markets, as it were. our european markets, though, this morning, we were called quite a bit lower. we're hanging on to these losses by a bit. the ftse 100, 6523, off by 0.7%. yes

burns, how critical is angela merkel? >> she's a central player.n burns, how critical is angela merkel? >> she's a central player.un burns, how critical is angela merkel? >> she's a central player.n burns, how critical is angela merkel? >> she's a central player. burns, how critical is angela merkel? >> she's a central player. she gave a speech yesterday which was quite strong in warning putin because of these mobilizations of russian's forces on ukraine's border not to go forward with incur gents into eastern ukraine. if putin went beyond crimea and sent troops in to other city, then i think we're being look at fairly substantial sanctions. >> let me ask you both quickly then a couple of other points that we touched on. am babassador burn, we mentione may toe forc nato forces conducting trainings. anything that particularly concerns you you? >> i think nato is doing what it should do. nato has not opposed militarily what putin has done. but inside nato territory, nato is building up air support for poll land in the baltic states with f-16s and f-1

angela is back with us.education into an economic message, we talked about it before. why do you think it's a smart way for the president to go? >> it's imperative he go that way. college affordability is a huge issue in this country for the issues we discussed. it's discussed all the time. it's so important for people to feel like they have the opportunity to get ahead. we use the term leveling the playing field so often in this space. it begins to fall on deaf ears because we are so used to it. think of a kid going on the soccer field with no knee pads. when they take a break, there's no gatorade or water. the other team has that. itis access and making sure people have equal opportunity. go ahead. >> i was going to say, do you think at this point, it's a message geared to parents and younger voters themselves. do you think that is still resinating so many years after all the euphoria over 2008? >> i do. i do. it's really the only way. you have to meet people where they are. these are students that may not

and angela, let me ask you about what this policy will do.ing to hurt or bolster our borders? >> well, what we need, jamie-s too comprehensive immigration reform. but what i'm confused about is last yeah, september 2013, the president was interviewed on telemundo. you had the hispanic caucus and several hispanic advocates lobbying him by executive order to halt the deportation of illegal immigrants. and by the way, obama has deported more illegal immigrants than president bush. the president said at that time, jamie, that he could not halt deportation without the act of congress. now he's saying in essence he wants to look over the policies to see if he can do it with an executive order. again this president is putting politics over policy. and garland, you're right, we should augment the policy. but you can't break the law while changing the law. there is a process, jamie. so i don't know what it's going to look like. >> well, garland, wrap this up for us and tell us, can the president do this by executive order? he has recently met with the

what is your sense of what angela corey is up to here?it's interesting to me that angela corey and this county is the county we had the jordan davis case that failed to get a conviction or an acquittal. didn't get any decision on the first count. she did get that against marissa alexander. she was a special prosecutor that went to sanford on the george zimmerman case. one has to wonder when you're looking at a scorecard like this whether angela corey is really, really aggressive and competent, or is there something else going on here, as lisa bloom raises in her book? i'm more concerned about changing the legislation and dealing with the legislators, but i must say that i'm more than curious about how miss corey seems to have a perfect batting average of zero on these cases. >> reverend al sharpton, thank you so much. catch the reverend's show at 6:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. >>> coming up, i'll talk to a member of the florida state legislature who supports this controversial law. stay with us. [ as schwarzenegger ] show me the movies with

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joining me now are angela rye and jimy williams.r being here. >> thank you. >> angela, we've seen political ads behind a lot of beliefs, and we've seen them bend the truth. but how far is too far when you're dealing with health care? >> well, rev, too far was 54 votes ago four years ago in the house of jokers -- i mean the house of representatives, of course. i think that now we have folks like those who run americans for prosperity, which is exactly what their name says. they are for prosperity by any means necessary and at all costs. so you have people who now have health coverage that actually covers something, that now actually can see doctors and specialists without referrals, that can ensure that they can live and live more abundantly in this country. and the fact that they are pulling these people for whatever reason, perhaps because of their own prejudices about the president, or whatever else, their own ignorance about the law and they're putting them on air and they're not telling the truth. it's really unfortunate. and in

joining me now are angela rye and e.j. dionne.oth for your time. >> good to be with you, rev. >> e.j., it is as important for these republicans to bin over billionaires as it is to win over voters? >> yes is the short answer to that question. i do want to give sheldon adelson one thing, which is he had the best sound bite for a gambling mogul who spent a lot on politics. he said i don't mind when i lose. there is always a new hand coming up. and it's easy to say that when you have $38 billion worth of chips. but i think this is really very distressing what is happening to our system. my colleague, dan baltz of "the washington post" said it's exactly like the sheldon primary, which people are calling it that makes people feel shut out of politics. and it really has a corrosive effect on public confidence in government. there is something wrong with presidential candidates going to a very rich person and say oh, gee, please, will you spend $90 million to elect me. i think that bothers a lot of people. and not just liberals or democr

angela merkel says he has. madeleine albright says he's delusional. i think there might be a simpler explanation. vo: once upon a time there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place where villages floated on water and castles were houses dragons lurked, giants stood tall, and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real. avo: whatever you can imagine, all in one place. expedia, find yours. >> what does dissent in russia look like these days? we're going to show you a coup of examples of that next. and we'll include the example of that anchorwoman in russia who said she objects to the invasion of crimea. [ sneezes, coughs ] i've got a big date, but my sinuses are acting up. it's time for advil cold and sinus. [ male announcer ] truth is that won't relieve all your symptoms. new alka seltzer plus-d relieves more symptoms than any other behind the counter liquid gel. oh what a relief it is. than any other behind the counter liquid gel. save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.d everybody knows that. well, did you know pinocchio was a bad

we also had the phone call the president had with angela merkel, but let me start with kerry and lavrov. what do they say to each other? what's critical right now? >> first of all, the fact they are meeting is a good sign. they have developed a cordial relationship. i've been in many meetings with them and the fact they are talking leads open the possibility of this off-ramp that you mentioned and that the president and the administration is trying to provide for putin. i don't think there will be any break ththroughs today, i think it's early for that, but you will hear about the consequences, economic consequences of continuing this and foreign minister lavrov, just the justification for it all. resolution will come later in this crisis. if it comes at all. >> meantime, simultaneously, you have secretary kerry talking to a lot, frankly, of foreign counterparts. here's some of the criticism that we've been hearing. this one from congressman mike rogers. >> right now, putin has set the table in the crimea for negotiations the way he would like them to go, and i think that puts us at a l