it's cleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that is really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy and so economic sanctions are important. get some military assistance to ukrainians at least so they can defend themselves. resume the missile defense system in poland and the czech republic. look at moldova who is invaded by russia as we speak. there are a myriad of steps we can take and it will be interesting to see to what degree are people joining us who are dependent on russian energy slice. >> rand paul took home 15% of the vote on saturday's northeast republican leadership conference in new hampshire. new jersey governor chris christie came in second with 13% and rick santorum, scott walker and ben carson were tied in third each with 11%. senator paul also has an early lead among possible 2016 candidates according to a new cnn opinion research poll involving 16% of the vote. while paul did not attend the conference, u.s. senator scott brown did and he spoke about his immediate future and his desire to return to the senate. >> it won't surprise you that i've been over th

they demanded their opportunity to have their voices heard without a cleptocracy, russia needs to thinkery carefully about the choice that it's making and there are visa bans, asset freezes, isolation with respect to trade and investment. american businesses may well want to start thinking twice about whether they want to do business with a country that behaves like this. these are serious implications. i know from my conversations yesterday, everyone of our allies and friends are determined to stay united and to make clear there is a price attached to this kind of behavior. >> schieffer: are we actually prepared, mr. secretary to, boycott the g8 meeting there? >> well, absolutely prepared to. if we can't resolve it otherwise. but the preference of the president, myself, the entire administration is to resolve this. we're not trying to make this a battle between east and west. we don't want to return to the cold war. nobody wants this kind of action. there are many ways to resolve this problem as president obama urged president putin yesterday, this is the moment to engage directly with

international reserves, you target their holdings overseas that are elicitly gained through this cleptocracy. we're a nation with vast energy reserve and potential but with government that's seen hostile toward developing those energy reserves. if our government changed its tune on that, if we told europe, we are going to green light the languishing permit applications for exporting lng, natural gas to europe that could do a lot to send signals that we're intent on loosening russia's grip on its energy to europe that we're going to be reliable ally to loosen their grip they get their money from petrol. if we could compromise that by developing american energy, creating jobs here, lowering prices, that would be a huge step in the right direction. we're going to move on that in the house i think the president would have a grit opportunity, change tunes, resets, smart sanctions, energy. >> rose: let me move to cpac you were one of the speakers you said needs to be a bigger debate it's taking place. whatever happens to bipartisanship in foreign policy? >> well, we used to have it. when we had tr

its cleptocracy, it is a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.economic sanctions are southern. get some military assistance to ukrainians, at least so he they can defend themselves. resume the missile defense system in poland and the czech republic. look at moldavia with a path toward membership in nato. there's a myriad of steps that we can take and it will be interesting to see to what degree our european friends will join us who are dependent on russian energy supplies. >> the problem is the economies that intertwined in many ways. first of all, there's some russian money from the elite certainly does help out in real estate and a number of things in europe. >> in saying that, in the long term we should be working to get energy supplies to ukraine and other countries in europe. we are an abundant now energy exporter. we should be using that -- if it is a long-term strategy, we should be figuring out right now. it is a long-term strategy, we should be figuring out right no it is a long-term strategy, we should be figuring out right now. >> in t

become more familiar with that case, but in general ukraine has been called a clip copper see -- cleptocracyder the former regime where it was not a transparent form of doing business. i mentioned how much farmers were being charged by the economic system inside the ukraine, 19% interest rates. they were forced to sell their land and the land was being unmasked by certain oligarchs and set the country. it is a very messy situation economically. and there are a lot of forces at work to control ukrainian farmland because it is globally pristine. farmers don't have the equipment like we have here. they don't have the best seed. and there were forces at work to control again this global asset that is so precious as world population increases. ukraine is already the third largest exporter of grain on the face of the earth, despite the horrendous economic system. i must say in terms of the government of ukraine now, what has happened under the constitution of the country their parliament by vast majority vote supported the new government of ukraine. and they actually voted and the party that presi