chief international correspondent christiane amanpour says journalists everywhere should be angry abouthort time ago. christian, thank you for joining me. >> my pleasure. >> the head of al jazeera english says that this current situation is a threat to journalism itself. do you agree it's that serious? >> look, i really do agree. look, we have an unprecedented number of journalists in egypt, foreign and domestic, who have been charged with, get this, terrorism. i mean, give me a break. it is the last refuge of an authoritarian dictatorial regime whether in egypt or wherever it is who doesn't want the truth told. what's happening in egypt is that journalists, whether they be from al jazeera, cnn, bbc, or, indeed, egyptian journalists are being forced into partisan positions. if you do not follow slavishly the military government line in egypt, you are deemed a terrorist. if you try to be objective in your coverage, you are deemed a terrorist. i mean, it is terrible what's happening there. it is silencing the truth. >> to hear charges of aiding terrorists that must have a chilling effect

now let's bring in cnn's chief international correspondent christiane amanpour in london. you've spoken to all the leaders in the region. what is the sense you are getting? what are the fears? >> i have been doing a lot of interviewing of the opposition in ukraine, those aligned with moscow and other international figures. there is obviously, clearly, a sense of crisis. the nato chief has tweeted just today warning again there should be no intervention by russia, and that no misunderstanding created at this time. russia continues to insist that it will not intervene militarily. again, a statement from the russian foreign ministry, though those military games, some 150,000 troops along with dozens of aircraft and tanks and other hardware taking place along that border with ukraine is obviously setting people a little bit on a worried course. now what people are saying is the best and most sensible course of action is for the united states to work with russia, not against russia, to make sure this all actually calms down. and to insist by their actions and by their diplomacy

christiane amanpour, thanks very much. officials in new jersey releasing texting between two key figures in what's called the bridgegate scandal. you'll hear what governor chris christie's top aides joked about with a port authority. and later hillary clinton's stepping into the spotlight in a politically critical state. you're going to find out about her comments in florida and why they're making news today. so there i was again, explaining my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis to another new stylist. it was a total embarrassment. and not the kind of attention i wanted. so i had a serious talk with my dermatologist about my treatment options. this time, she prescribed humira-adalimumab. humira helps to clear the surface of my skin by actually working inside my body. in clinical trials, most adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis saw 75% skin clearance. and the majority of people were clear or almost clear in just 4 months. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious

i sat down with christiane amanpour and candy crowley to search for answers from washington to the rest of the world. up first, a solution to the big skills mismatch in this country that remains illusive even in a recovery, and that could be a big problem politically. >> many of these people you know statistics far better than i do, tend to be 50 and 60-year-old males who have had a certain skill and got into a certain pay level, face it, that they're the first ones to go, when a company is trying to contract. if you can get a 25-year-old to do what a 55-year-old is doing, you're going to do that, because he's not at the pay scale. >> tonight i've asked vice president biden to lead an across the board reform of america's training programs to make sure they have one mission. train americans with the skills employers need, and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now. >> i've talked to governors who have said before kind of privately, look, our retaining programs are not the best. in some cases, programs to keep state workers employed, not necessarily to retrain people, an

christiane amanpour joins us from london. thank you for joining us.rt with this premise that the olympics were a success, there was no major terror event that many of us were concerned about, can't control the weather but otherwise it was good, does this mean anything for projecting the situation forward for russia in terms of how they conduct themselves in the ukraine? >> well, look. people were astounded not just by the terrible bloodshed in the streets of kiev but why would putin at the end of a very successful olympic game be either allowing it or in the know that this kind of crackdown was going to come and many are saying it's because just like with the winter games he wanted to show a very strong russia, a russia that is equal on the world stage, a russia that may not be a super power in name but believes still is and ukraine plays heavily into that picture he has of russia and its empire. he still wants a strong russia and the ukraine and former soviet republics play into that. >> the u.s. said two things. one ukraine is not about russia and t

one journalist who held up such a sign is christiane amanpour from cnn. she's a competitor, but clearly, competition is a trivial matter when lives and freedom of the press are at stake. >> christiana is one of the many dozens of journalists across the country have spoken out in sport of the journalists. thank you very much, rochelle. >>> today, a federal court is considering turning over a state's ban on gay marriage. and the state's newly elected attorney general is looking at striking down the law. joie chen has this on the top of the hour. >> an in-depth look at crude oil concerns with controversy over the keystone pipeline, and what about for the people who live in its path? the sleepy town of port arthur is at the end of the proposed pipeline extension, but residents already feel the ill effects of the oil industry. >> i really feel like a lot of people in port arthur, including my family, [ unintelligible ]. >> america tonight correspondent, sarah hoi, brings us the story of the residents at the top of the hour. >> when you were in high school, it'

. >> interestingly, the polish foreign minister just told christiane amanpour today that the thing that got ukraine president yanukovych in his view to step down was a phone call from vladimir putin. why would putin want yanukovych to step down? it seemed like yanukovych was doing what he wanted. was it this guy has no support -- >> move on. yeah. we don't know what sort of support yanukovych had of the ukrainen military, but that might have been the next step. putin might have said this isn't going well for you, time to move on, and probably feels he has others he can turn to ukraine in the future. >> do you think having a rudderless, leaderless ukraine is more in russia's interest in the short term than even yanukovych? the protesters went away for the most part. >> yanukovych was without support anywhere so best to move on. i see your point. but putin must have said it's time for you to go. i think yanukovych shows up in russia. i think he'll show up there at some point. >> we'll see. >> that's right. we'll see. >> peter brooks, thanks. >>> next on "the lead," scientists can do it, b

we have christiane amanpour on to talk about what is going on and what this means for the rest of thell be at the center of that discussion as well. >>> and then, under the title of ramifications and repercussions, we're going to be talking about alec baldwin, no stranger to controversy, kind of an exile out of new york. he said he was doing a movie in honolulu, hawaii. but while there, he wound up kind of getting it all off his chest. a really long narrated column that he told it to somebody else. we're going to talk about it this morning and find out why he says he's quitting public life. that's it. it gets me choked up when i talk about alec baldwin. >> leaves you speechless, so much to talk about. >> it's emotional, j.b. >> ramifications and repercussions, it doesn't fit on the banner. too long. >> you know where i got that from? eddie murphy said it in the movie "life." anybody eats my corn bread, there are going to be ramifications and repercussions! >> the last and first time the film "life" has ever been quoted on morning -- >> he gets a beating after saying it, so hopefully,

christiane amanpour is joining us on the phone right now. you know this story well. covered this story for a long time. when jim acosta, our senior white house correspondent, says they are now seriously considering canceling u.s. involvement in the g-8 summit in sochi, russia, in june unless russian troops get out of ukraine, that is a big, big deal. >> well, it is a big deal, and it does -- i'm sure ambassador mcfaul and congresswoman harman would agree that this is yet another step on an incredibly deteriorating relationship between the united states and russia. you see the president and other top officials did not go to sochi for the olympics because of the anti-gay law and other such things and now you have a very real potential geopolitical crisis right in the heart of ukraine. and as congresswoman harman has said one of the issues that absolutely has to happen and all the scholars and diplomats have told me this, that the new interim government must make it clear to all the parts of ukraine that it is the government of all ukrainians and not just for those who