thousand russia aggressed georgia two thousand and fourteen only three years ago russia occupied crimea and you have criticized moscow for having troops supporting separatists in eastern ukraine as well as for its an accession of crimea but your commander in chief hasn't been as clear. so my commander. has been very concerned then she of the president on the trunk as being as clear. i thought he was very clear when he stood there more so that by the uprising the moral in said we are committed to article five of the alliance he pointed to american soldiers that were standing there next to him and said this is our commitment pointed to these young men and women as a manifestation of the commitment the united states to security and stability in europe don't criticize russia as you are doing you. don't know trump has stepped back from delivering military aid to the ukraine but we have not stepped back from delivering military we have two hundred fifty american soldiers that are in ukraine right now helping to train ukrainian troops hundreds of millions of dollars of supplies and equipment h

flag and there he answer is russia or is in the ukraine the answer is russia is occupying crimea that the answer from the russian side rather was in east germany also and they're gone so you compare this sure sure. i'm actually optimistic if we can all stick together. you know time is not in russia's favor you said that russia could conquer the baltic states vote quicker then we could get there to defend them quote hand if this is true it means that these states are not sufficiently protected by the united states or the nato so i think that was about two and a half years ago when i said that but. i would not say the same thing today in the main reason i would say that is the alliance rapid deployment of enhanced for presence better words in less than a year from the warsaw summit in july last year less than a year germany led a battle group german led battle group deployed to lithuania canada back on the continent of europe for the first time in years in latvia u.k. and stony and of course united states and poland with spain italy france all these countries together that that signific

in march of that year russian troops seized crimea. rehn does president putin said it was now part of russia. at home he was hailed as a hero. outside he was condemned. even when america slapped on sanctions, he didn't back off. this $300 million project shows he's doubling down on the grab. trains, trucks, and cranes will carry everything from food to tourists. already it's a source of pride and a local attraction. out on shore this man and his friends have come to marvel and pose for pictures. the bridge underlines crimea is ours, he tells me, and we are never giving it back. officially america says rush has to do just that, give crimea back to ukraine to get the punishment lifted but 12 miles of concrete and steal show that is just not going to happen. >>> coming up only on "cbs this morning," an emotional interview with 49ers wide receiver marquise goodwin and his wife morgan as they open up to dana jacobson about the death of their baby boy. >>> plus the alarming news on diabetes. >>> and nasa has completed a time lapsed view of l

at some point of time make sure that ukrainian still very welcome in crimea this is the only way for russia to patch it's difficult if they're really right now you mentioned the energy issue and this is very interesting because three years ago we heard the example the second no strong leg and said to be have the germans and the austrians cost for it. do they even have the ukrainian interest. that each country's pursuing that own it cannot be to friend the friends the austrians or what we did to you is to those obtained his concern exam pipelines that we are able to send energy of of your visions or look as he would back to karim here we did it but we are playing a minor role of this thing the whole situation is it me those are members changes and for sure there are real background is i think we need a certain way of regulation in the relations between russia on the one side and the european union of the other side i think the energy program has to see in a global context even. and i think that not enough talks on both sides insist that but when you specifically consider that issue of

you now say crimea is ukrainian.lf into the shoes of putin, who would of course be proud of this. this is his main thing he is proud of. i see, i see. and this is how we stand. we haven't time to go through all of your policies, on the economy, foreign policy, everything else. let's do it. well, we don't have time, but russia is in a really difficult place economically. there are still sanctions on the country, your growth rate is i% this year. you are very vulnerable to shifts in commodity prices. do you believe, going back to this question of experience, that you have the ability to turn russia around?” have an ability to create another system. and the system itself will create another economy, a free economy of trade, a free economy of innovations. the things that are needed is the changing of power, so the parliamentary republic, very strong government, instead of very strong government, instead of very strong president. ithink strong government, instead of very strong president. i think the most important thing

at some point of time make sure that ukrainian still very welcome in crimea this is the only way for russia to patch its difficulties busier really right now you mentioned the energy issue and this is very interesting because three years ago we heard the about the unified western position on your credit but now it's not even clear what the west really means take for example the second no stream pipeline we have the americans who are strongly against it to be have the germans and the austrians cost for it. do they even have the ukrainian interest any one of them do they have the ukrainian interest in mind because there seems to be. that each country is pursuing that own it cannot be to friend the friends the austrians or what we did to you is to those obtained his concern exam pipelines that we are able to send in achieve your visions or look as he would back to karim here we did it but we are playing a minor role of this things the old situation as you may remember strange is. the real break around this i think we need a certain way of regulation in the relations between russia on th

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this will be crimea's umbilical cord to mother russia.lanes, cars and trucks will carry everything from food to tourists. already it's a sources of pride and a local attraction. at a lookout on the shore, his friends have come to marvel and pose for pictures. "absolutely. the bridge underlines that crimea is ours" he tells me "and we are never giving it back." officially america is saying russia has to do just that give crimea back to ukrain to get those punishing sanctions lifted. but 12 miles of concrete and steel are saying that's just not going to happen. anthony. >> elizabeth palmer in moscow tonight. >>> coming up next the new cars with the most distracting dashboard systems and later these folks have the most fun living stronger. aswitch to new pantene light as air foam conditioner, full of rich pro-v nutrients. for 100% conditioning, 0% weight new pantene foam conditioner. it says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. this. here? no. have a little fun together, or a lot. k-y yours and mine. two sensations that work together, so you

then in march of that year, russian troops seized crimea. after a hasty referendum, president putin announced it was now part of russia. at home he was hailed as condemned. but even when america and its allies slapped on sanctions, he didn't back off. this $3 billion megaproject shows he's doubling down on the land grab. the bridge due to open next year will be crime yes's umbilical cord to mother russia. traings, cars, and trucks crossing this giant span will carry everything from food to tourists. already it's a source of pride and a local attraction. at a lookout on the shore, this man and his friends have come to marvel and pose for pictures. "absolutely. the bridge undermines that crimea is ours," he tells me, "and we are never giving it back." officially america is saying russia has to do just that, give crimea back to ukraine to get those punishing sanctions lifted, but 12 and steel are saying that's just not going to happen. anthony? >> mason: elizabeth palmer in moscow tonight. thanks. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," the n

russia paid dearly for meddling in ukraine the west responded with sanctions the antics ation of crimea resulted in the most serious crisis in russian european relations since the fall of the soviet union. could best. when the consequences became clear and sanctions were introduced it causes disillusionment and a deep very serious pessimism sets in. everyone understood that reforms threaten to putin's pala that's why we're stuck in a dead end and there's no way out of this would be new. to a certain extent russia is experiencing a repeat of everything the soviet union went through before its collapse serious economic problems dependence on raw materials aggression toward the outside world. for russia ukraine today his what afghanistan was for the soviet union back then. when the soviet union interfered in the war there it sparked the crisis to the lot . more than twenty five years after the fall of the soviet empire bloody mary putin is still looking to restore russian power and prestige with mixed results musk owes an accession of crimea and it scarcely concealed intervention in the wa

crimea had been russian until one nine hundred fifty four about seventy percent of its residents speak russian and more than half are ethnic russians in two thousand and fourteen vladimir putin decided to arrange its return in a controversial referendum ninety six percent of crimea has voted in favor of it must go lost no time in using the vote to justify a land grab bringing a historically significant region back into the russian fold putin knew this would block ukraine from moving closer to europe at least temporarily and further weakening opposition at home. which is what you do cleverly played on people's fears the kremlin's propaganda said look at what's happening on the my don they're shooting and killing people there do you want to revolution like this in moscow do you want thousands to die and people got scared. i wish they did just as. russia paid dearly for meddling in your crane the west responded with sanctions the antics ation of crimea resulted in the most serious crisis in russian european relations since the fall of the soviet union. could best buy the up of. but when t

ukraine and pulling -- putin, putin took over crimea and the invasion of ukraine beyond crimea. all of that took place. the fact of the matter is that the united states is the world's most important nation. trumps a mistake that made during his campaign when he said america first and we will not pay any attention to nato and other alliances. he pulled out of the transpacific partnership and left china in charge of what was going on in that area. that was a serious mistake. i was not happy with the tpp, i thought it needed to be renegotiated in three different areas. the to pull out of it basically gave china a free run in that entire area. that would be much of the discussion we will see up a conference in vietnam in the next couple of days. host: 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 2 for independence. are you ready to accept new of korea as a nuclear armed nation? guest: no, i am not. that would be a major problem for many years to come. i do not believe it is necessary to assume that it would happen. i believe that there can be negotiations. >> would you

posture towards jerusalem with russia annexation of crimea, that if we think crimea was welcome hybridpossible our embassy in jerusalem. do you think those two things are parallel to one another? >> i think that's a lot to learn from our reaction to crimea. it's relevant to drizzle but it goes exactly in the opposite direction and what ambassador kurtzer suggests and i would refer to my article and commentary on crimea and israel's borders. the reason america did not recognize russia's seizure of crimea is not because the people there are not russian orthodox what want to be part of russia. it was because it was part of the ukrainian soviet socialist republic until ukrainian independence. under international law when a new country is created borders on the borders of the last top level administered unit in that area. so when ukraine is greeted crimea is within its borders even though how that came to be with the necessary there are democratic or reflecting self representation. we go by the doctor. we say crimea belongs to you crazy when israel became a country last top level administra

among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal mannix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not the british p.m.'s message comes on the back of a tough week for her domestically treason may continues to be hounded by m.p.'s over her brags at negotiations which are seemingly yet to yield any real positives for the u.k. so much so that the e.u. is chief breaks that negotiator says he won't rule out a no deal scenario meaning break that talks could collapse entirely pressure is also building on may with rumors that up to forty m.p.'s are readying a letter of no confidence that number is just eight short of the required total to force a new leadership election within her conservative party we discussed the p.m.'s predicament with party veteran former government minister peter lilly he believes her speech wasn't just directed up moscow it was as much a message to europe because it was to russia is saying we are the ma

posture towards jerusalem with russia annexation of crimea.that if we think crimea was wrong to come hackwork possible on our embassy in jerusalem. do you think those two things are parallel to one another? >> i think there's a lot to learn from our reaction to crimea. it's relevant to jerusalem buttock is exactly in the opposite direction. of what ambassador purchase a a just and i would for you to my comment earlier on crimea and israel's borders. the reason america does that make about russia's seizure of crimea is that because the people there are not russian or they don't want to be part of russia. it was because as part of the ukrainian soviet socialist republic until ukrainian independence. under international law when he knew countries created, it's borders on the borders of the last top level administrative unit in the area. when ukraine was greeted crimea is within its borders even though how they came to be was not necessarily fair, democratic or affair representation. we say crimea belongs to you cranky when israel became a country

they'd taken crimea from ukraine. and at that time, 2014 in mainstream american politics, nobody in either major party was particularly soft on russia, but particularly in a republican primary in a state like iowa, you'd actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. but it was interesting. in that senate primary, that republican senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. he called himself a former pentagon expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. he said, quote, i think a lot of people, i'm not sure they understand the history of russia. you go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. it actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. this whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. that

posture toward jerusalem with russia 's annexation of crimea. if we think crimea was wrong, why would we want our embassy in jerusalem? is there a parallel? >> there is a lot to learn about our reaction to crimea, but it goes in the opposite direction. i would refer you to my article on crime. a. the reason they did not recognize the seizure of crimea is not because they did not want to be part of russia, but because it was part of the ukrainian soviet socialist republic of until ukrainian independence. the borders are the borders of the last administrative unit in the area. within its borders, although the way it came to be was not necessarily democratic. we go by that doctrine. we say crimea belongs to ukraine. country,el became a the last administrative unit was the u.k. the presumptive borders include all of jerusalem, and thus jordan's invasion would be like russia's invasion of crimea, and would be an act we can give no recognition to. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. dr. koplow, the united states is ying on theeluy cooperation of our

and young people used to flock to the world's largest techno festival and guys unshaved in crimea and dance to the backdrop of the black sea. the russian occupation of crimea in two thousand and fourteen put an end to that the festival moved to georgia where the orthodox church promptly tried to have it banned. the orthodox church as one hundred fifty million members and it wields power across the former republics. condemned by the church as has been open again for the last twenty five years and they're always fully in spite of almost one hundred years of godlessness and the soviet government's attempts to destroy religion sick of it. but the search for meaning and values hasn't led only to a resurgence of religion fame and a radical feminist activist group founded in ukraine is anything but pious topless for freedom they call themselves extremists and of pledge to fight patriarchy in the sexual exploitation of women in all its forms. die is considered yes there is conservatism and there is patriarchy but at the same time our society is ready to accept and create something new somethi

i don't see a big movement for anyone to push russia out of the crimea. my personal assessment is that that annexation has been more or less accepted by the international community. host: tar heel, north carolina. click question for you -- quick question for you? caller: about crimea. ukraine, what they tell is false . the wrong people in the syria outflow. russia came in and looked like they cleaned the place up. they're having a meeting right now in russia with all of the other countries involved such as turkey, russia, syria, and iran. host: what about russia and its disruptive role in all of this? guest: certainly, as we were saying, the ukraine crisis is something that requires attention. there are sanctions on russia for its incursion into ukraine. there is an envoy, the u.s. envoy, who is working quietly. there is the potential to work on a deal for the ukraine. this has been costly for russia. they have had casualties. they have not publicized -- the russian public is not happy when their soldiers are not declared to be in a place and come home in

we say crimea belongs to ukraine. the last top level administrative unit was the british unit for palestine, there was no corpus, no west bank and thus the presumptive borders upon looking include all of jerusalem, not to mention to gaia and us jordan's invasion would be like russia's invasion of crimea and it would and ask that we could give no recognition to. >> i now recognize the ranking member mister lynch. >> thank you very much mister chairman. doctor coppola, the united states is currently relying on the cooperation of our era allies like egypt, saudi arabia and jordan. in cooperation, to really stabilize the security interests in the region including four israel. jordan, we've had on the critical support from king abdullah against isis. he said, this is a quote, he is quoted, a relentless war against isis and hit them in their own ground. he's been an unequivocal supporter of our efforts there. i hearken back to in egypt, when the morrissey regime came in after qaddafi's new, mubarak's removal. they actually

posture towards jerusalem with russia annexation of crimea that if we think crimea was wrong, how could we want our embassy in jerusalem. do you think those two things are parallel to one another? >> i think there's a lot to learn from our reaction to crimea that's relevant to jerusalem but it goes exactly in the opposite direction of what ambassador kurtzer suggests and i would refer to you my article and commentary on crimea and israel's borders. the reason america did not recognize russia's seizure of cry me ra it was part of the republican until independence. and under international law when a new country is created, it's borders are the top level of the administrative unit in that area. so when it was create ready i crimea is in its border even though how that came to be was not fair, democratic or self-representation. we go in with a doctrine, we say it belongs to ukraine. when israel became a country, the last unit was palestine. >> there was no west bank and thus the presumptive borders of israel upon its birthday include all of jerusalem not to mention judea and samaria and jor

chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it the day after may's claims the times newspaper alleged russian interference in the brig's it votes one example was a supposedly russian who is profiled didn't fit a typical british political observer yet posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning brags that the political and media scare mongering may have actually had an effect as policy boyko reports in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the braggs it talks and the problems facing to raise their maze of government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story in london

that president didn't do a thing about taking russia's take of crimea. didn't do a thing about the known meddling by russian hackers, state actors meddling in our elections. >> in your earlier segment when you started talking about the entrenched bureaucracy. what tillerson is doing by getting rid of some of the folks. that bureaucracy has been one of the biggest impediments to transparency because there are people there who are only there to protect their job. they don't care about the outcome. the status quo. we have got to be there. lou: i have got to understand something. we have straighten out the desk that has been responsible for 25 years of conflict that cost this country even told numbers of lives and six-plus trillion dollars. and we have to trust the fbi? and it's not appropriate to question the fbi? we are at a type when we have to question everything about this government. and americans have to get over the idea that they are going to sit here like fat, happy doaps and take whatever is spooned out by the federal government and these two poli

chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal annexation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it. comes on the back of a tough week for her domestically the reason may continues to be hounded by m.p.'s over her breaks at negotiations which are similar get to yield any real positives for the u.k. so much so in fact that the e.u. chief negotiator says he won't rule out a no deal scenario meaning that the talks could collapse entirely now pressure is also building on mrs may with rumors that forty m.p.'s are preparing a letter of no confidence that number is just eight short of the total needed to force a new leadership election within the conservative party discuss the p.m.'s predicament with political commentator adrian gallant he believes she focused on russia to the struck the tension from issues with bricks or people talk about that but she chose instead to focus on the issue

>> crimea i think is going to be very hard. one reason i warranted to -- wanted to write this book was to talk about the role america can play in supporting democracy. we have a tendency -- i take some responsibility for this -- to associate democracy promotion with what happens in iraq and afghanistan. those were extremely stressful situations where we had a security problem and later on tried to help build democracy. but most of the time democracy promotion is much simpler and less complex youch think about the way that we dealt with the baltic states so the 45 years that they were under soviet occupation, david, when i was the special assistant for soviet affairs i had a stamp and it said the united states does not recognize the forceful incorporation of the baltic states states into the soviet union, and when you mentioned lithuania estonal 0 laugh via, you stamped that. we could anything about the russians but we stood for the principles, in crimea we have to stand for the principles even if we can't do anything about it.

there aside from crimea and more broadly speaking how do ordinary people there and russia view the political situation in ukraine especially the government in kiev is there pro western anti moscow course well two thirds of ukrainians but only a quarter russians and this and the conflict as a russian ukrainian woman you think that there is a civil war in the eastern part of ukraine and that there are no russian troops basically in the eastern ukraine they blame the government in kiev call for the better relationship and to some extent also the west particularly the us that there is somehow interested in this russian ukrainian conflict drugs or into the latest from moscow an economy in kenya thank you to both of you we appreciate it. quick reminder now the top stories that we have been following for you here in t.w. u.s. president donald trump is speaking in vietnam at this moment at a regional economic summit you are looking at live pictures there the u.s. leader says that his country is willing to make bilateral free trade agreements with asian partners but he said that the u.s. cannot toler

chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not just secure the best possible brics it now facebook say that they will respond with their information to the committee by early december while twitter says it will respond in the coming weeks and most exacting maria's claims of russian meddling in the u.s. in late october the same tech giants testified to congress. we determined that the number of accounts we could link to russia and that were tweeting election related content was comparatively small. aggregate these ads and posts were a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but these videos most. of commitment and a lack of genuine effort and that just one do we could we could have done more but . the government is using russia as a discredit looking for a needle in a haystack and trying to find the haystack the sense it's another distraction the fail