. >> host: joining us now is senator chris murphy, democrat of connecticut. he's a member of the foreign relations european affairs subcommittee chairman. thank you for coming in. >> guest: good to be here. >> host: when it refers to ukraine: ukraine's upheaval leaves the u.s. and europe in a tight spot. would you yee with that headline? >> guest: no. i don't know why we'd be in a tight spot. this is, obviously, a very difficult that's unfolding right now in ukraine. they're in the middle of forming a new goth, the president has fled, they're filing charges against him. there's enormous upheaval. but this that uphe'll is opportunity for the ukrainian people, and this is really what it's about. they were sick and toured of a government that had become corrupt, divorced from the population on the streets and had made, ultimately, fateful discussion to reverse course instead of doing as yanukovych had promised, which was signing a negotiation agreement with the e.u. instead, very or credibilitied towards russia, something that the people of ukraine didn't want.

senators john mccain and chris murphy appeared before a crowd of a quarter of a million ukrainians to express their solidarity with the western-leaning protesters. the demonstration escalated this month, when ukrainian riot police killed six. across the country, demonstrators seized government buildings, including the president's base in eastern ukraine. in many cases, the authorities handed over the buildings to the protesters, declaring their allegiance with the people. the protesters demanding the president's resignation and new election to apiece the protesters, the president has repealed antiprotest laws, offered amnesty to demonstrators. in fact, his pro russian prime minister. but so far, the president himself refuses to step down. in his tuesday state of the union speech, president obama affirmed the right of the ukrainian people to have their voices heard, but he limited notice of the attempted coux to one line. on wednesday, obama aides told congressional aides they are readying sanctions to be used against ukrainian officials and if necessary, against protest leaders. on th

john mccain and chris murphy travel to kiev in december senator murphy said ukraine's future stamp with europe and the us stands with ukraine while senator mccain proclaimed quote america stands with you. do you think that this kind of that speech is appropriate. no i don't and i don't think the use of the ukrainian people to decide what is in their best interest and oh yes the russians were by the way were true it is is that the law people the republican party were so pretty in russia as it was the soviet union called war is over. one day decided that he would like the album of course there's no reason why he shouldn't be representing the interests of russia is the president of russia. he offered the ukrainians a deal that know if they would go towards the european direction. well on ok. they have a right to accept or reject that their government in the right direction up to reject it without having to us trying to say well if you accept any closer ties with russia that must mean you're a puppet in your corrupt and you're you're a gangster well on the ad states that she really interfer

playing out in the streets with this crazy violence that's going on now senators john mccain and chris murphy traveled to key of in december senator murphy said quote ukraine's future stands with europe and the u.s. stands with ukraine while senator mccain proclaimed quote america stands with you do you think that this kind of speech as appropriate. no i don't and i think that it's up to the ukrainian people to decide what is in their best interest and yes the russians by the way were true what it is is those were the there's a lot of people in the republican party who are still treating russia as if it was the soviet union the cold war is over. decided that he would like to have and of course there's no reason why he shouldn't be representing the interests of russia he is the president of russia he offered the ukrainians a deal and if they wouldn't go towards the european direction well ok they have a right to accept or reject that their government as a writer accept or reject it without having us trying to say well if you accept any closer ties with russia that must mean you're a puppet and

chris murphy, thank you for your time.oming up, we will ask you to comment in the last 45 minutes or so, on the announcement by the pentagon of military spending cuts. here is your chance to do so in our last segment. we will take those calls after this news update from c-span radio. >> an update on the ukraine coming from across the newswire. a spokesperson says the former chief of staff of the ousted ukrainian president viktor yanukovych is hospitalized after being wounded by gunfire. no details were available on the attack. a spokesperson confirming the official resigned his post on sunday. the former president's chief of staff was among the figures most despised by protesters. turning to the philippines, please clashed briefly with 300 protesters who were opposed to a planned visit by president obama and continued military presence by the u.s. in the country. shieldsice held up across a road to the u.s. embassy and were pushed back by demonstrators, prompting the police to act. there were no serious injuries. president

will hear more about the budget cuts for the military on "the washington journal"and then later chris murphy will discuss the political situation in the ukraine and the united states role there. you can join the conversation each morning. >> on tuesday, eric holder will speak live. our coverage starts at 10 a.m. eastern. >> what we are told is there is all kind of sit-ins and demonstrations that occur but they are done by these famous iconic people. it is rosa parks who was so tired she refused to get up from there bus and the young preacher who even the president referred to during the election as a young preacher from georgia who leads the masses of african-americans from racial oppression. so this notion that rosa sat and martin could do this stuff and jesse could run and obama could fly. they sound good. but they really simplify a much more complicated history. and that history involves so many african-americans, women and men, who proactively dismantled the seggration. rosea parks was an activist. >> history professor and author of "dark days and dark nights" will talk to us on sunday l

bills are already in congress with senator mccain and chris murphy of connecticut calling for such sanctions. unclear what arrows are in the quiver, what pressure the united states can bring to bear at this point as the situation spirals out of control. >> mike, thank you. leaders across europe also condemned the violence in the ukraine today. the e.u. will discuss what steps to take which could include sanctions. james bays now has more from vienna. >> in your wean capitol. >> together with our two governments. >> we sympathize with all the victims of violence. and we appeal they be political dialogue again. only political dialogue can bring progress. >> the most recent protests started after a trade deal with the european union was abandoned. negotiations had lasted five years. but at the last minute president yanukovych refused to sign a deal in effect tying his country's future to russia rather than the e.u. as protests grew european politicians flew in to give them their support. among them katherine ashton. in vienna where she's chairing talks with iran she gave her reaction to the blo

when john mccain and chris murphy went to stand with the protesters, they stood next to this guy, anition leader an leads ukraine's right wing nationalist party. also first registered as a neonazi party. they're in the streets right now shooting at police. there's a part of me that wonders if asking which side i'm on is the wrong question and the right question is, how to we avoid a full-out bloody civil war in a country that's right smack between europe and russia? joining me now is nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. there have been developments today. vice president joe biden calling the president yanukovych to basically say pull back, cease and desist. stop shooting at your own people. >> right now there's an intensification of diplomatic efforts coupled with sanctions to try to shape the behavior of the ukrainian government. what they're trying to do, the united states and europe are trying to get the ukrainian government which they believe holds responsibility, most responsibility for the ongoing violence to push their forces away from the square. the square has bee

senator chris murphy was there we should note but didn't call the president naive.ukraine's president yanukovych ousted over the weekend, the guy who stood next to mccain a couple months ago who said ukraine was run by a, quote, jewish russian mafia is according to "the final times one of five contenders to head up the government. joining me is mark quarterman. it struck me when john mccain talked about vladimir putin having a cold war vision of this conflict he wants the frame of the conflicts to the person on the other side. if they view it in cold war terms, you must as well. >> it's not even clear that vladimir putin views it in cold war terms. we have to remember that ukraine is a country that borders russia. whatever we think about the russian government or recently fallen ukrainian government, russia is going to care deeply about what happens in ukraine. what you described of john mccain's approach to this is an example of a more general problem that we often see mostly among pundits but even u.s. administrations. that is this desire to pick a good guy and a

later, connecticut senator chris murphy who chairs a european affairs subcommittee, will discuss thelitical situation in you can -- in ukraine and the u.s. role there. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. ♪ host: house speaker john boehner headed to the white house today to speak with president obama. lately to discuss immigration reform, raising the minimum wage, and extending unemployment benefits. president obama also plans to announce the opening of two new manufacturing institutes in the chicago and detroit eric -- areas. it really matched by the private funds. in the first hour this morning we will get you thoughts on the plans from the defense department to slow down the growth of the military

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later, chris murphy, who chairs a european affairs subcommittee will discuss the political situation in ukraine and the u.s. role there and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 eastern on -span. president obama and vice president biden spoke to the nation's goffers at the white house about the minimum wage and the economy. the national governor's association is holding its annual meeting in washington. [applause] >> >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thanks for making the cabinet stand up for me. [laughter] i appreciate it. it's great to see you all. and i don't know about you all, i had a great time last night and got a chance to actually do what we should be doing more of -- talking without thinking about politics and figuring how we can solve problems. you've observed by now the reason the president and i like doing this every year is it's nice dealing with people who know they got to get a job done, and they get a job done. and i've gotten a chance to work directly with an awful lot of you in the days of the r

senator chuck schumer, tied with slightly lesser known, brian schatz from hawaii and connecticut, chris murphyto the senate to joe lieberman's seat. those are the three top contenders. >> who are the most conservative 123450 most conservative is idaho's jim rish who isn't the most well known senator but conservative senator for the second straight year. ted cruz placed number four on the list. he -- first year in the senate, first time we got a rating for him and he certainly proved his conservative credentials. >> we see michael enzi number two which may suggest why lynne cheney had so much trouble getting traction against him. any -- any names stand out? i see most liberal house members, keith ellison in there. most conservative house reps, steve shabbat z surprising from a swing district in the cincinnati area. >> you know congressman shabbats. he was more in the middle of the rankings when in that cincinnati competitive district. he got redistricted into a conservative district and we're seeing this polarization take place. now that he's in a safer district he's voted more conservatively w

thank you, john heilemann and thank you brian murphy. >> thanks, chris. >>> coming up, how long can chris christie keep up his sergeant schultz defense, i know nothing, i see nothing. right now it looks like his strategy is to fight and hope the worst is over. i don't think so. >>> also, the latest case of obama derangement syndrome, lindsey graham, who can be sane calls the president's comments on fox on benghazi the lie of the year, although it isn't. james imhoff, the senator from oklahoma says it's the greatest cover-up in history. and he didn't even see the interview. he goes to great lengths to trash the president. i guess it's safe to do it down in the patch. >>> plus, is hillary clinton repeating mistakes she made in 2008? she hasn't even begun to make mistakes. how can she be accused of making mistakes? that's what some obama folks are saying. i don't buy this. i don't think she has done anything wrong yet. it's all in the record. >>> and it was 49 years ago that bob dylan was booed by purists for playing electric guitar. now the purists are booing again, this time over a super b

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chris christie. >> joining me now is brian murphy, a professor and a former political reporter in new jersey. and joining us is a senior editor of wnyc. so brian, it all is coming down to david wildstein these days. of course, there's bridget anne kelly which no one has heard from including her voice pleading the fifth amendment. but the christie camp actually using elements of this 2-year-old article to attack david wildstein, an article in which the same players in the christie camp actually were defending david wildstein against these kinds of accusations is just an amazing thing to see tonight. >> so you weren't convinced by this? you didn't find this to be a really smart press move? >> i'm kind of in the makeup your mind position on this. it's so -- it's just a riot to see drewniak and the governor saying everything nice they possibly could right up until friday when wildstein's lawyer writes this report that says evidence exists that christie knew. and then it's attack mode on david wildstein. oi'm not con finsed that michael drewniak saw this before it went out. or if the professional

murphy and joan walsh. brian worked for david wildstein at a website covering new jersey politics where he felt with both wildstein and chris christie, the u.s. attorney at the time. thank you both for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> brian, let me go to you first. we have to start with this christie attack on david wildstein for something he did at 16 years old? i mean, do you know david wildstein? what do you make of this attack on him? >> i've never met him in person. i worked for him when he was the aanonymous editor of this website, which they also attacked him in this e-mail. it seems like a -- when i read it, it seems to me like i can't imagine a communications professional, a paid person on the staff was actually okay with this going out. it just seems like a panic -- with dredging this up. >> but it seems very personal. >> yeah. >> and almost venomous. what do you make of it? >> i think it seems desperate. to reach back to that and pluck out things like he made unproductive moves. well, who doesn't? who cares what he did when he was 16 years old. i don't know what they were trying to accomplish when they wer

still say, we were really concerned about chris christie's electability, these issues but still compared to everybody else, this is our best bet. brian murphyfrom the "chicago sun-times." thanks for joining us. that's "all in." catch my show "up" weekends at 8:00 a.m. eastern time. "the rth rachel maddow show" st now. >>> we have a scoop on the bridge scandal coming up in just a moment. a new thing to report. thanks, than. thanks to you at home for staying with us the next hour. as i just mentioned to steve because i feel like i've got to check in with him on this story because he's been on it more than anybody else in the building, we do have some new news to report on the chris christie new jersey bridge scandal tonight. msnbc has obtained new information tonight both on the investigation into governor christie's administration as well as the governor's response to that investigation. i will explain that new information that we have uncovered tonight in just a moment. >>> but first, you should know governor christie, himself commented today at some length on the bridge scandal and on how he is handling it as governor. he was questioned on

very unlikely that chris christie did not know about the lane closures according to the story he is telling. joining me now, the "washington post's" jonathan capehart and brian murphy, a professor at baruch college, and a former political reporter in new jersey. brian worked for david wildstein. we're in the full disclosure section. brian worked for david wildstein in 2002 as the managing editor of politics.com. and the full disclosure goes on to say that bill is also a friend -- you're also a friend of bill baroni. >> that's right. >> and so as a friend of bill baroni can you get him on the phone and find out when he's going to invoke the fifth amendment? >> i wish i could. i haven't talked to him actually in a couple of years. but he did come to my wedding. but i haven't been in touch with him in a while. so i unfortunately can't do that. >> so brian, the way this has out and tonight with this extraordinary interview by the governor we see a new opening in this story where he is allowing for the possibility that somewhere around him and within earshot was the knowledge of the traffic jam while it was happening and then he leans on the phrase "it didn't come into

. >> that's chris christie this chicago earlier this week. we want to bring in our panel, brian murphywith us a great deal on today's story, also a professor at brook college, bonnie watson coleman, a democrat on the joint super committee investigating the bridge scanndal. she previously served as the state democratic chairwoman in new jersey. we have michael patrick, a republican member, also part of the joint legislative committee. and brian thompson who has been covering new jersey for the station for the past 16 years. so we'll start just with this news we brought at the top of the show about chip michaels apparently being the police lieutenant at the port authority who drove david wildstein around on the morning of the closures. and i guess i can't say this enough on the show. we did not make contact with him. we don't have any reason to suspect that he was in on the planning of this or anything, but, brian, it strikes me, like, how david wildstein through livingston, his police lieutenant is from livingston, he's driving him around -- the scandal ends up becoming so local in a ce