he was so respected by his peers in czechoslovakia that he was chose ton lead post-communist czechoslovakia, first as interim president and then voted unanimously to become president of czechoslovakia in december of 1989 by its parliament. in today's environment, it's somewhat awe-inspiring that he was so respected he was unanimously elected to president. you don't find that too often these days. six months later, havel was elected as president at a popular election in july of 1990 and through his leadership and influence, mr. havel helped guide states from underneath the soviet regime to their place as respected democracies in europe. he helped bring down the iron curtain and he aided his country's transition into a free market economy. he certainly deserves to be honored with his bust in this building to sell -- that celebrates our own democracy and supports democracy and liberty and freedom across the globe. i urge my colleagues to support the resolution, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is ecognized. mr. miller: i yield myself such t

that gave up the rest of czechoslovakia and the invasion of poland. and i recall the gaza strip being traded off land pour feas -- for peace and what does that again? -- get? that gets tunnels and missiles and rockets, rockets i should say, shot out of the gaza strip into the balance of ral israel -- balance of israel. land for peace, mr. speaker, if someone can show me a successful trade of land for peace, i do not know what it is throughout the course of history. and it isn't that this is something this second world war, that happened a long, long time ago in a different time and a place far away. sure it was a place far away. very close to us. a lot of americans are buried in that soil in europe. and they gave their lives so that freedom could live. we're going to commemorate and celebrate the successful landing in normandy this upcoming june 6. that should be enough to bring our focus to what transpired then, through that period of history, it should bring our focus into the prevention of anything like that ever happening again. it should bring ou

used to seize that part of czechoslovakia.e ares now saying protecting ethnic russians against all kinds of indignities by ethnic ukrainians. >> what should the west do for ukraine? what heavy weapon is in the arsenal to show moscow's actions cannot and will not be tolerated? the actions announced today by president obama, whose attention putin has finally gotten, that the good stuff. it's a good step. -- he fellch fell when individual sanctions were put in place and they started jumping ship. he will have to test his elites, but he ought to know their devotion to him may not be stronger than their devotion to their accounts in swiss banks or their wife's shopping trips to london come in new york and paris. the elites inned our last 30 seconds. they are not oligarchs will stop today have any influence over vladimir putin and his policies? >> they are not oligarchs. they are government officials promoted by putin based on either his childhood friendships or college friendships or his judo partners. they have their own business

she said it mirrors hitler's claims in the 1930's that he wanted to protect germans in czechoslovakia and romania. hertelegram quotes saying -- the comments came at a private fundraiser. she also said there is no -- is asn he has irrational as adolf hitler. >> marion airey released from the hospital. he has been undergoing treatment for a blood infection since being hospitalized february 10. infections are tougher for him to fight off since the kidney transplant five years ago. >> that blood infection knocked me for a loop. i will put my health of the top of the agenda because i will not be here forever. while i am here, i want to be healthy. >> this comes one day before his 78th birthday. >> video from prince george's county where an suv has bashed into a pizza restaurant. hole at the corner branch avenue and curtis drive. took rescue crews about 15 minutes to free the driver of the vehicle. he was seriously injured but expected to survive. no one inside the restaurant was hurt. all of the snow and ice is wrapping up a big bill. an analysis by the news partners hasd in virginia, vdot

>> well, i mean, it's very similar, a carbon copy of what happened in czechoslovakia when germany was starting. also in europe. basically they claimed they had -- they went so-called to protect them, but then european power, chamberlain, british prime minister back then said, well, czechoslovakia is far away, we shouldn't care about the quarrels between the people of whom we know so little. other places all over europe. appeasers. feed one country, a crocodile, hoping they'd be beat by the crocodile. it looks like putin is on a rampage. putin, it's about liberty. you know, you ukrainians are fighting to be part of the western world. justice for revolution. crackdown from the government which used force against them. now if united states don't stand up for freedom now, then the core u.s. interest will be violated because, you know, these are the principles which made the western world strong. and ukrainians are going to the west for that. not just for the sake of geopolitical choice. that's exactly what vladimir putin wants to stop. that's exactly what adolf hitler wanted to stop in th

all the germans, the ethnic germans, the germans by ancestry who were in places like czechoslovakia and other places and hitler kept saying they're not being treated right, i must go and protect my people. than's what's got everybody so nervous. >> we'll be back after the break with your reaction to that. but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. i reckon a storm's a bruin'. reckon so. reckon you gotta hotel? i reckon, no. reckon priceline express deals can get you a great deal. wherever you...mosey. you reckon? we reckon. vámonos! priceline express deals. you can't always see them. but it's our job to find them. the answers. the solutions. the innovations. all waiting to help us build something better. something more amazing. a safer, cleaner, brighter future. at boeing, that's what building something better is all about. ♪ [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she

the 30s, all the germans, the ethnic germans, the germans by ancestry who were in places like czechoslovakia and other places and hitler kept saying they're not being treated right, i must go and protect my people. than's what's got everybody so nervous. >> we'll be back after the break with your reaction to that. sailing past ancient glaciers in alaska -- makes you realize how old time is and how short life is. she can take all the time she wants. princess cruises. come back new. [ female announcer ] plan your seven-day cruise from just $549. call your travel agent or 1-800-princess. with the quicksilver cash back card from capital one, it means unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you purchase, every day. it doesn't mean, "everything... as long as you buy it at the gas station." it doesn't mean, "everything... until you hit your cash back limit." it means earn 1.5% cash back on every purchase, every place, every occasion, all over creation. that's what everything should mean. so consider... what's in your wallet? that's what everything should mean. the was a truly amazing day. without an

under the nazis, kept talking about how they had to protect german minorities in poland and che czechoslovakia throughout europe. so i just want everybody to have a little historic perspective. i'm not making a comparison certainly, but i am recommending that we perhaps can learn from this tactic that has been used before. >> let's bring in susan glasser, editor for politico magazine and co-author of "kremlin rising: vladimir putin's russia." susan, secretary of state hillary clinton would not have made those remarks. ex-secretary of state hillary clinton apparently did. >> well, it's never super diplomatic to compare anyone in global politics especially the russians to the germans and world war ii era so it's not a particularly politic thing to someday. comparisons to hitler are pretty tox nick the political atmosphere, which is why we saw her immediately trying to clarify them. >> right. of course millions of russians died fighting hitler's army, but she was not really criticized. in fact, a lot of republicans sald they agree with her. >> a lot of this going on. a lot of this putin is acting

all the germans that were -- the ethnic german, the germans by ancestry who were in places like czechoslovakia, you know, hitler kept saying they're not being treated right. i must go and protect my people. and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous. >> that recording was leased by the long beach press telegram. event organizers had asked that the speech not be recorded. today, hillary clinton, as she used to do in the senate revised and extended her remarks. >> what i said yesterday is that the claims by president putin and other russians, that they had to go into crimea and maybe further into eastern ukraine because they had to protect the russian minorities and that is reminiscent of claims that were made back in the 1930s when germany under the nazis kept talking about how they want to protect german minorities in poland and czechoslovakia and elsewhere throughout europe. so i just want everybody to have a little historic perspective without making a comparison, certainly, but i am recommending that we perhaps can learn from this tactic that has been used before. >> krystal ball, she ph

he's using the same tactic hitler used to grab czechoslovakia in 1968. >> going back to what bob gates said in this extensive interview, i'd be cautious about sending warships in the black sea. it's a threatening gesture. if you're not prepared to do something about it, it's an empty gesture. do you agree with him on that or would you send warships in? >> putin testosterone supplements are working. he's accomplished his first objective without firing a single shot and did it with a paper tiger army. look at the wrshz troops in the media coming out. they are bearing brand-new uniforms, brand-new weapons. it's a conscript army. navy can't go to sea, their air force can't fly. it's a major downtime for all their aircraft. he does have nuclear weapons. he fired one off to remind us of such this week. pentagon said they knew it was coming but i doubt seriously that's true. what we really ought to be doing, instead of the flaccid response we're getting out of the obama administration caught flat footed by intelligence failure again is sending everything we can to help our neighbors and nato

czechoslovakia into two. thin later years break-away koso got it's autonomy from serbia with american bombs. montenegro negotiated its way out. in the aftermath of iraq the kurds created their own state still technically inside iraq borders. the crisis of ukraine has swiftly run through versions of all those different options. would the story end peacefully or violently. is the world just one overreaction away from a shooting war in europe? early monday russian pair troopers and armored vehicles stormed the naval base in eastern crimea. the stun grenades and automatic weapons that captured dozens of ukrainian soldiers and the base commander. in over the weekend the russian troops forced their way into the your cranan air base with armored vehicles. today the russian flag flies on top of 200 ukrainian military bases in crimea. ukraine's acting president announced the withdraw of troops and their families from crimea after the recent fall of the bases to russian troops. >> the national security and defense coun

historians say this could be the most dangerous situation in europe since the soviet invasion of czechoslovakian 1968. president obama spoke by phone with russian president putin for 90 minutes saturday ghaending moscow withdraw its forces back to bases in crimea. the president offered to send international monitors to ukraine, you 00 crane yap officials say thousands of russian troops have flooded in to crimea, convoys have left their naval base surrounding an the only action is has been to pull out of preparatory meetings for a g-8 summit in sochi this june. ukraine closed its air space to noncivilian aircraft and withdraw its vessels from two bases. ukraine's prime minister appealed to the u.s. and britain to intervene, adding his country is on the brink of disaster, warning this could be the beginning of war. pro russian protests broke out in four cities in eastern ukraine where russian speaking ukrainians asked moscow to defend them, a virtual invitation to putin whose parliament authorized him to use force in a unanimous vote. meanwhile ukraine has called up all men under the age of 40 to

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always believed we should have immediately admitted the battlingic states -- poland, hungary, czechoslovakia -- into nato. i think pushing beyond those lines too quickly violated what i think the russians thought were the arrangements that were made at the end of the cold war. >> charlie: do you think he thinks he understands president obama and that president obama is committed not to use force and president obama, in the end, gives him more leverage than another president might? >> well, i don't think so. you know, i think if you roll the clock back and let's say the president had used force in syria and had done some other things or the defense budget wasn't being cut, i don't think that that would have changed the calculus that putin has under these circumstances. i think that, you know, there are no realistic military options for the west in ukraine and certainly in crimea any more than there were when putin invaded georgia in august of 2008. let's just be realistic about that. george bush was president of the united states in august of 2008. nobody ever accused him of an unwillingness

ambassador speaking of 1956-19 68, a reference to the soviet crackdown of what was hungary and czechoslovakia. history is on everyone's mind. as world leaders struggle to find a solution in ukraine, president obama was dealing with the elusive middle east these plan, welcoming judgment netanyahu to the white house. toughama stressed decisions now need to be made by israel. it is a topic i discussed with former middle east envoy, george mitchell, but we begin with the major news of the day in ukraine. lex president obama said russia is on the wrong side of history. with all of your experience negotiating trouble spots, is that an effective type of language to use at this page? >> i think it is. this is a very serious action. president newton is getting away with a similar effort with respect to georgia, essentially the same playbook. i don't think it's likely to happen this time because ukraine is not georgia and i think europeans are deeply concerned about this as well as united states and other allies. i think this was an overreach by putin and the united states and its allies stand firm. no

this could be the most dangerous situation in europe since the soviet invasion of czechoslovak czechoslovakia. president obama spoke with putin for 90 minutes saturday demanding mass he could withdraw the forces back to crimea. the offered to send international monitors to ukraine. they say thousands russian troops flooded into crimea, convoys left the naval base surrounding and disarming ukrainian forces yet the only real action about it u.s. is to threaten to pull out of preparatory meetings for a g-8 summit set to be hosted by russia in sochi this june. ukraine closed the air spas to noncivilian aircraft and withdrew the coast guard vessels from two bases. ukraine's frprime minister said his country is on the brink of disaster, warning this could be the beginning of war. protests broke out in four cities where russian speaking ukrainians asked moscow to defend them. putin's parliament authorized him to use force in a unanimous vote. ukraine called up all men under the age of 40 to prepare to fight. warnings by u.s. officials did not deter russia from occupying crimea. >> i'm closely watchi

they were going to take the eastern bloc countries we november -- we know of, poland, czechoslovakia, romaine yow, bulgaria, yugoslavia, those countries, and so that agreement was made at yalta. the agreement was agreed to by churchill and roosevelt and by stalin. and then it collapsed in, it collapsed in on germany, carved that part of the world up according to the plan at yalta. can you imagine, mr. speaker, sitting at yalta in the crimea with a map of the world and drawing on that map, this is the line east of which people will live under the soviet influence which hadn't technically formed yet and west of the line people will live under wench influence and even carved up berlin itself, we had a u.s. sector a french sector a british sector and a russian sector of berlin itself. that set the destiny far lot of history that was to come after that but what he saw happen over the course of 45 years of cold war, mr. speaker, was that these countries that had been taken over by russia and some of them were mostly within the sphere but i will say the countries that are eastern bloc satell

in hungry, '56, or czechoslovakia in '68. georgian challenge when george w. bush was president. think this is really abut geography, politics, history. russia has always had a special place in ukraine. this is part of being abroad. you have 15, 20% of the people of uf crakraine. ethnic russians, ethnic speaking. it is dangerous if you will to apply historical precedents. >> europe has been reluctant to go along with some of the sanctions against russia. part thought of may be because of reliance on russia for natural gas. is there something that really pushes the united states to export more natural gas as a result of this? >> absolutely. for so long, u.s. policy toward gas and oil has been seen through a prism or template of our dependence. look over the last couple year, our energy reality has been fundamentally reformed. what we should think about now is energy literally and as a resource, strategic instrument or tool. we ought to be opening up lech lech -- liquefied exports. and the transfer of technology. a country look ukrai like ukrai develop shale. rush yeas sia is no lo

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ukraine's crimean peninsula which for us to state hillary clinton compared to hitler's occupation of czechoslovakia in nineteen thirty eight russian presence in lebanon the district with other intelligent east ukraine to protect the russians from tara. the russia has tightened its hold over ukraine's crimean peninsula by clamping down on local media in the region while maintaining its troop presence in key strategic positions according to reports by ukrainian media officials armed men accompanied by russian state tv representatives have captured the state around operator of television transmitters in crimea kenya's largest independent broadcaster black ctv has also been shocked me the most poignant of all the russian tv channels which the kremlin propaganda as their tv news choice. the last independent tv channel left in crimea is a tr he may need to tow our language broadcaster and is taking precautions to try and ensure it stays on air reports of the so called self defense forces of crimea beating journalists have also began to surface and the milestones of the government has grown increasingly s

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voice of the past week i was fifteen years old in nineteen sixty eight when soviet forces entered czechoslovakia because he was the same justification to the same documents exhibited the same allegations we heard that against you. good news and you won't go into the security council has met for three days of emergency sessions but has not reached any decision. given russia's veto was a permanent member the chamber's options are limited. us secretary of state john kerry will be in kiev today. on monday barack obama met with his national security advisers to discuss ukraine and the us has already said it will suspend its military cooperation with russia. it's a snap to the us stands the is for russia with impunity and two but it's all on the ground to violate basic recipes that are recognized around the world. and. be strong condemnation that it's received from countries around the world indicates the degree to which rushes on the wrong side of israel. as the crisis continues in ukraine its economy continues to suffer. team of experts from the international monetary fund said to begin a ten day fa

from czechoslovakia to germany and now with the annexation all cried me up. looking to move to russia but still there is no coaching. i mean that's that's clear of being in a book which he was is a sort of. restoration or partial restoration of the soviet union. but what if no one much more. he had also much more color of the year the german army balls but he was able to chew which are due to world war. and of russian army's most is able to do so and so it is a different situation and the surface there are some similarities. then towards the top. the poetry and all boy he is the consulate is in his actions and craig me a quote his foot in that picture is to show off to national security not only knew him because he knows of budapest memorandum sent men to fall and use it you see is the magic in the dome of the top thirteen ukrainian sore and she answered to interpret it make sure the story yet i know some of the countries that want to kill some nuclear. maybe they just go see it or you it's the violet with eric as a team you can protect us. yet that's exactly

. >> so four countries, kim, hungary, poland, the ambassadors from those countries, czechoslovakia republicehner saying we're dependent for our natural gas from russia. please do more to unleash yours. that will really help us send a great signal. and john boehner's response is mr. president do it you. have the power to do it without congress. this is funny because the president is willing to do things the congress doesn't think he has the power to do. congress says you have the power to do it go ahead but he won't do it. >> our allies are begging for this. our side note, too, as part of the e.u.-u.s. trade packet that's being negotiated they're asking for unlimited gas exports. because they realize how important this is in terms of their position vis-a-vis putin. but you're right. it's not getting anywhere in washington. the president, for instance, he has the ability to just instantly lift what is currently an export embargo on crude oil exports. and presidents in the past have done this. it takes an executive order. we happen to know that this president likes executive orders. but he won

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i think it was a slip of the tongue because what hitler did, this isn't poland, this is czechoslovakiactually invaded. the nazi army marched in, and this is not something that putin has done. he's asked for permission to do that. so i think frankly the comparison is a lame one, although in both cases, yes, hitler spoke about the way ethnic germans were mistreated and putin has spoken about the way ethnic russians are mistreated. but there's a big difference between invading a country and talking about those things. so i don't think it's really a good comparison. >> i'm going to bring nina in a moment. but you agree, vladimir, there are russian troops in crimea right now and they've taken over certain key positions. that's what eyewitnesses have reported. so you would agree to that. right? >> well, i have a problem with it, wolf. the question -- what i've heard is from some people is that these are local self-defense russians. they're not members of the russian armed fors. now, there are some people who say they are. there are other who is tay save they're not. and i don't think there's

germans that were, you know, the ethnic german, the germans by ancestry, who were in places like czechoslovakiaomania and other places, you know, hitler kept saying, they're not being treated right. i must go and protect my people. and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous. >> i don't disagree with her. but if hillary clinton believes that putin is acting like hitler, then wasn't mitt romney right to say that russia was our number one geopolitical foe? >> i think russia is a foe, there's no doubt about that. hillary clinton was right on the money. >> yes, but congressman, mitt romney was laughed by democrats when he said that, he was mocked by the president himself. isn't that embarrassing for the democrats looking back now? >> not embarrassing at all. i think what hillary clinton said was right on the money when hitler invaded to protect ethnic germans you could promote an analogy to support ethnic russians. it was a lie then and it's a lie now. >> i agree. i think that just bolsters what mitt romney had to say about russia in hindsight. >> the problem with romney's comment was he said it

obama would be open to putting the missile defense shield in czechoslovakia? >> i suspect not.hink that he moves very cautiously in this kind of crisis confrontation. i think he really has to step up fundamentally. what we are seeing is the global power politics and a test of wills. >> we should oust him from the g-8 and oust him from the g20. that would bother him. and then there are decisive things we can do away on the crisis. we could also accelerate georgia into nato, which is moving slowly towards that end and we could put it on a fast track. there's things we can do about syria. >> and putin should pay a price for what he has done. even if he moves away, there should be a price exerted for this. lou: the administration was caught by his move on the ukraine and there was scuttlebutt of all sorts after the close of the olympics. it seems the united states government was not connected to that possibility. >> i agree with you it is mystifying because the fact of the matter is that they thought they could clear the streets and that would break the back of the demonstrators ar

arena show where they actually do the book right there in the dirt with a thousand of underpaid czechoslovakiaras. in the movie they are crashing together for the pirate scene. 40 years before charl ton -- charelton these stone. they could do this enormous skep paw cal. skeptical. i wanted to do the show. the concert was a big orchestra. it started out as a movie. and then i started to make the movie and i cut the two and a half hours down and i started to drink the kool-aid. the movie itself is something else. it is much bigger than the charelton these stone movie. >> that money back then is eight million. >> that's $25 billion. >> are you quick with your arithmetic. >> why do i listen to you? it is more expressive. >> it is silent so i can go ape crazy bananas. i was a film composing -- composer. soundy fict. -- sound effect. and then to see the movie and it is clank, clank x clank. this movie is silent which means it belongs to me. i am on my drums. and there sint -- and there ain't no singing going on or a battle. i have a 90-piece orchestra and we are making something happen. >> will this

will be about the game that neville chamber land got in munich in 19 threat, when hitler annexed czechoslovakia. putin will have gotten what he wants but does he want the rest ofest on each ukraine, if he does -- of eastern ukraine, if he doesn't it, who is will stop him. lou: serving as ambassador to ukraine. you know the ukrainians, you understand politics and culture and heritage. is that connection with russia such so strong so historic that some in administration would be perhaps better served to kind of study that relationship and understand that there will not be an all likelihood a black and white immediate disposition here? there won't be a black and quite immediate disposition, you are right, this is a complicate the country, it is interesting country that is strongly pro-europe. in the west. as you go further east the gradiningations became clear in terms of politics, it clear that ukrainian people want to be soften, make their open decisions -- be sovereign, make their own decisions, my bet is they will choose europeans we should give them that opportunity. lou: as hepr henry kiss e

economy is clearly more intertwined with the west today than it was in 1968 when they invaded czechoslovakia. over time, they could have that effect. to expect an immediate effect is unrealistic. i think you will hear more of what putin said earlier today in terms of defiance if there was an effort and if we were successful in getting sanctions put together. >> putting on your historical cap, was it a mistake to push the frontiers of nato? >> i think those frontiers were not pushed into georgia. they were not pushed into ukraine. they are not members of nato. >> we wanted that, didn't we? >> we certainly want that. it was clear by 2008 that the germans and the french were not going to allow it to happen. as i have written in the book, i think that we probably didn't move too far too fast. i believe we should have immediately admitted the balkan states. i think pushing beyond those lines too quickly violated when i think the russians thought were the arrangements that were made at the end of the cold war. >> do you think he thinks that he understands president obama? do you think president ob

somebody wrote the other day in 1968 when the russians invaded czechoslovakia, there was not -- the stock market in russia did not crash because there was not a stock market. the case today is a russia is integrated into the globalized economy and they have all of those of our abilities. their banking system, trade, travel. a real price to be paid. putin has come to grips. he has not fully calculated the economic pressure and price put on him. >> he has no appreciation of how severe the sanctions if in fact europe -- would affect russia? >> he is underestimating the pressure. you are right. if in fact, there are broad-based sanctions, a number of countries participating, especially russia which is third-largest market. >> bob gates was here saying he worries very much that europe will not be able to come together on this. >> we will have discussions with the europeans. this would be an american leadership issue. work with the europeans close and in lockstep. to do the things i talked about in terms of embracing kiev and trying to de-escalate. essentially, where this is going, the european

we saw that in afghanistan, we're seeing it in ukraine, we saw it in hungary and chek czech czechoslovakia in the 50s. i think it takes what it has and pockets it. there's no chance that anybody was going to take action and there's no chance that any countries are going to push russia out of the crimea. that part is to important for the strategic aspirations of the russians and i have no doubt they'll do what they need to defend it. i am reminded in 1979 there was a lot of talk and huff and puff, we boycotted the olympics, we tried to put sanctions in the way but the russians at the end of the day stayed there for a decade. >> he says he does not see this going away any time soon and the russians will stay as long as they can. >>> the new farm bill could cutz millions frocutmillions from thp program. plus: >> i think it's important to be out there and i think we have a responsibility to be there. >> one group's mission to get the homeless off the street as frigid weather sweeps across the country once again. the annual meeting of apac began today. treasury secretary jack lew began his spee

he used the violated german minorities in central europe and places like czechoslovakia and that is exactly what putin is doing today and there's nothing new under the sun here. latimer hootn. neil: he must know it hat evn as cazy as it can be, then it matters to have that currency going. and you would think they would try to leverage all ofthat. >> i disagree completely. this is russia. and the russians have a 2000 year old history of either being at your knees or at your throat and this is visceral and the main audience is and nato, it's the russian people. and the russian people are loving this and it's almost like it's docked world war ii again. neil: we've been reading a lot of this press. they do like that. but i am reminded what mitt romney was talking about with russia. so have a listen. >> romney was right. >> he was. he was absolutely right. and you might also note that not only did the president dismissed roey, but the vast majority of the media actually made parodies out of what mtt romney said. and that is precisely what happens today and it seems to crumble around the world, b

go back to the 1950's when vladimir putin went to czechoslovakia.were arms to the teeth in western europe at that point. we did not respond to the soviet invasion of czechoslovakia because of the strategic calculation, not because of how many troops we had there. host: when the president called russia regional power, not a superpower, what was the reaction by vladimir putin? guest: his biggest trouble is he has to much pride. he is using it in the wrong direction. russia wants to be thought of as a global power and a global player and they're going about it all the wrong way. if you want to be a global layer, grow yourself economically and have a more credible government. this is instructive about the ukraine. the reason that vladimir putin was concerned about ukraine is he saw the ukraine drifting towards the western orbit and he thought this weakens russia. said of ukraine dependent on russia, they will drift for the west. in fact, that is what russia needs to do. i need a better economic relationship with western europe and a better economic rela

that's how the germans arrived in czechoslovakia in 1938. it's a very bad precedent.here are places in ukraine and europe where they might appeal for outside phelp, it's not a good thing. neil: and i think that money would bring them back to their senses. you know, a lot of the russians o were affected and it might be in their financial interest to cool things down, what do you say. it's one of the few ways to get to him. he's all about his financial interests and the hundred closest people to him are all about financial interests. and we ought to make them pay a price right now, not to see how a negotiation might be. neil: what would a price be? >> it means, by the way, we've talked about asset freezes for so long, i doubt if the assets that we freeze would be in a place where we could be at them. but visa, there's a good thing to do, making it harder for these people to travel, harder for them to put their assets into real estate in paris, london or new york, or maybe cyprus if we could stop that one. and i think that generally putting pressure up on the thing that

germans with czechoslovakia in '3. >> is president obama really willing, what is his hammer here?is to somehow, you know, penalize russia when they're involved in the global credit markets, the global banking markets, that if he could somehow, if he does something like that, that could have major economic implications for russia but, you know, that would be something that i think would cause the markets to really, really get, implode. you would see a problem in the markets if russia was cut off economically from the rest of the world. the question is, would he ever do that? i just don't think -- adam: there has been no bloodshed. that is the other thing the reporter pointed out. >> i think president obama is worried, if you think about the u.s. economy right now, it is still pretty weak. you have one thing that he is touting. he is touting dow 16,000. will he be willing to roll the dice on that? i would say no. that means if, don't panic sell just yet. and, clearly the retail investor is not panic selling right now. cheryl: still trying to get get discussion off health care or oba

czechoslovakia, poland. this is exactly what putin is about.inging home to mother russia the russians outside. just as hitler would use the ethnic and link was to germans to stir up trouble and justify his defensive actions on their behalf, this is what putin is doing. he is not hitler. but, he certainly read hitler's playbook. >> he will not be satisfied until he has brought most of that population back into some relationship with russia? >> i think that is correct. >> and you think the united states and the west has to do what to stop them? >> i am not sure they can stop him. they do not want to incite them by weakness. we are, at this moment, and this is a long-term project. you cannot liquefy natural gas and ship it overseas. but we are net carbon exporters. this gives us leverage against his leverage. remember this. people say, oh gosh, the europeans are addicted to his energy. but his economy is addicted to selling it to them. it is a third world country with a first world military. he needs the foreign earnings. if the price of oil would