mitt romney who warned during the campaign about russian intentions and we'll hear from senator dick durbin just back from ukraine and republican senator kelly ayotte who is there now. plus, our panel of experts on those stories and the other news of the week. 60 years of news because this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs >> schieffer: good morning again, there is actually some new information this morning on the search for that missing malaysian plane, new satellite images, these from the french that show objects in the same general vicinity as the earlier satellite images. the search is now focused on an area about the size of texas, some 1500 miles off the coast of perth, australia. our holly williams is in perth this morning. >> good morning, bob. there is now a massive search taking place in waters of the southern indian ocean what might be the wreckage of the airline which has been missing more than two weeks. yesterday the chinese government reel leased a blurry satellite image showing something around 70 feet by 40 feet floating in the sea off australia's west coast

from the day i got in, the focus has been how to beat dick durbin. if he wins i will support him but it's critical that we replaced dick durbin in the senate. >> challenger will guzzardi defeated toni berrios in her bid to hold onto a state house seat in the 39th district on the city's northwest side. berrios had the support of her father, cook county assessor joe berrios, who is also the county's democratic chairman. state party chairman and house speaker mike madigan also backed her campaign. guzzardi says he's eager to get to springfield and begin working on the issues that matter to his district and the entire state. state representative darlene >> we are concerned about the quality of our public schools, about the future of our economy, concerned about fundamental injustice in our society. we need leadership. we need to fight for the issues. >> senger won in the 11th state rep congressional district. she grabbed 38-percent of the vote ... beating out grundy county board member chris balkema, who received 33- percent of the vote. senger says she'

one senator kirk is not standing by the republican fighting to unseat dick durbin. good morning, i'm sean lewis. dan and erin are off today. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. the snow is here and we have to limit on someone. >> i have my bullet proof vest just in case. we continue to see the snow. it's not a heavy hit but we have seen about an inch. we still have light snow across portions of the counties. eastern kane county at this hour and a cross cook county back edge of letters no continues to move through its should bring close to an inch from the overnight. looking at how our day goes. it's 21 degrees right now. in union we are at 22. it's 25 degrees down here. here is your day planner. 28 degrees is the high today. thursday we are at 48. keep in mind will show you what to look like two hours ago. this note moves through. snow showers early to the urban park area we will have that for you right on time ... there is. i fall asleep during the weather knowing that it's coming. but there it is. >> they are ordering their groceries right now.

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. >> reporter: we'll bring you more of that later on the show because he, dick durbin, rick johnson, a whole host of u.s. senators were very hulkish speaking in a bipartisan matter. this failed to get through the senate on friday. we also have been speaking to domestic key politicians as well including the foreign minister. and i asked him about diplomacy and what ukraine does next. >> we still believe there's a chance because there is a very big wide support of the ukrainian position on international arena of our partners in the eu or the united states and nato. so we do believe that with such an effort, we would be able to convince russia not to go to real war but to stop at this point and to settle all the issues around the table. >> reporter: one of the big problems, of course, is that kiev and the kremlin are not speaking. the kremlin has issues with legitimacy of the government in kiev, but we do have coming up the may 25th elections coming up in just under two months' time. so there's a hope, though, that when we have the presidential elections, this government will gain the i

when the president in october, and max baccus in october, and dick durbin in november, they're all sayingo stop this before the election, meaning allowing the funding of 501(c)(4) groups. why is that important? because those groups would be responsible for running campaign ads and campaigning against people like barack obama, max baccus, and other democrats. so this was an effort by the government to use the power of the irs to target people with a political point of view. it is an extraordinarily dangerous thing for any party in power to do to anybody. >> so no immunity for her? >> no, i want to get to the truth. there is a reason -- in my opinion, there is a reason she is pleading the fifth. she has something to hide. the reason, no immunity. >> all right, moving on, this is a topic you will address later in the show. but tom wrote, what do you think about a jeb bush ticket? >> george bush was conservative. a lot of conservatives were mad he spent too much money in offers. but i'll say this. i like jeb bush. i interviewed him. he got a lot of great things done in florida. he was a terri

each of these theaters nations is wrong, inaccurate, and unfair. >> dick durbin speaking wednesday. president obama called the vote a travesty and said -- for more we're joined by two guests. johanna fernandez is with us, professor of history, part of the city university of new york, one of the coordinators of the campaign to bring mumia abu-jamal home. she is the editor of his essays, "writing on the wall." is the director of the naacp legal defense and educational funds political participation group. we welcome you both to democracy now! let's begin with you, ryan, the significance of debo adegbile's rejection by the democrats as well as the republicans? >> i appreciate you having me on the show. it is hard to overstate with the senate did yesterday in a shameful vote that essentially decided being a lawyer disqualifies one from holding a legal position. more specifically, they held yesterday that serving this country as a public servant and the highest aspirations of the legal tradition and being one of the preeminent civil rights litigators in america disqualifies one, here debo

they made remarks earlier and some tweeted, including illinois senator dick durbin, saying that ofsupport peaceful ending in crisis. continued russian aggression will not be tolerated. and senator john mccain of arizona tweeting with senator durbin and u.s. marines that are in the sea in kiev. here are some of the remarks the aboutrs made from kiev tensions between russia, ukraine, and the international community and what they have been seeing over there. they spoke for about half an hour. >> good afternoon. i am senator john mccain of arizona and i am pleased to be joined today with a bipartisan group of my colleagues, senator the durbin of illinois, senator chris murphy of connecticut, senator ron johnson of wisconsin , senator john barrasso of , senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island, senator john holden of north dakota, and my fellow senator from arizona, jeff flake. won't forget when senator murphy and i were here months ago, we stood in the trade union building and watched as hundreds of thousands of ukrainian patriots stood in the freezing cold and demanded freedom, rule of law

>> note able, dick durbin of illinois, chuck schumer, asked the irs to get on the job of investigating these tea party groups see if they were violating irs laws. and lo and behold, that's exactly what they did. that is exactly what the hearings have been all about. what more do you need to do to connect the dots for the fact that something was set in motion to push these people out of politics. >> colin, this is a new developing story in the sense the irs has proposed a new regulation about what the 501 c-4s can and cannot do. it's got an uproar? >> and the comment period closed on thursday with over 100,000 individual comments. i mean that just shatters every other -- it was already breaking records when it was at 20,000. so this is an astonishing development. coming from the left and right. the aclu saying it was politically child. and you hear them saying this has significantly harmed our democracy. and the tea party groups, jennie beth martin testified in the oversight committee this week. and they said, basically, this rule would force her group not to even mention a name of a ca

>> notably senator dick durbin of illinois. senator chuck schumer of new york asked the irs to get on the job of investigating these party groups to see if they were violating irs laws. that's exactly what they did. that what is these hearings have been about. what more do you need to connect the dots of the fact something was set in motion to push these people out of politics? >> this is also a developing story in the sense that the irs has proposed a new regulation about what these so-called nonprofit groups can or cannot do politically. it's got an uproar in response from the right and left. >> it's an astonishing uproar. the rule within a comment period. and it closed thursday with over 100,000 individual comments. it was already breaking records when it was at 20,000. this was an astonishing response coming from the left and the right. you had groups like the aclu saying it would significantly chill political speech. you also had the liberal group alliance for justice saying this would significantly harm the infrastructure

>> our next guest, senate majority whip dick durbin.d to is you will most likely be put on this list of americans that will be sanctioned by vladimir putin, and you're fine with that? >> i'm just fine with that. my mother was born in lithuania and the baltics were held captive for decades by the soviets. when putin tries to show this growth in empire by invading the republic or georgia or ukraine, you bet we're going to speak out. if that makes him angry, so be it. >> i know you just recently got back from a bipartisan delegation from ukraine. what are your observations that you bring back and is the u.s. doing enough right now, just financial sanctions, we've only made a military commitment to give rations to the ukrainian military, are we doing enough or is the criticism valid that we're not? >> let's rule out completely american boots on the ground. that's not going to happen. in terms of standing behind ukraine and making sure that the western nations in europe and other places are imposing sanctions on putin, i say we have to defin

senator dick durbin is on a two day trip to ukraine. they will meet with members of the ukrainian government. also plans to meet with u.s. embassy officials ukrainian civil-rights activists and advocates for democracy. secretary of state john kerry met in london with his russian counterpart to try to head off a military showdown in ukraine. russia has 10,000 troops at the ukrainian border. the united states will take punitive action to isolate russia if they claim control. >> and employed workers collecting jobless benefits are one step closer to an extended deal. a bipartisan deal will extend by five months dating back to december. the benefits affect those out of work for six months or more. the full senate is expected to pass it. call residents might give refunds from the state's new tax on recreational marijuana. sets limits on taxes and government spending. if the state collects more than expected they could issue refunds. budget advisers say that could be as much as $100 million. voters could allow the state to keep the money. the

mitt romney who warned during the campaign about russian intentions and we'll hear from senator dick durbinine and

the list is reportedly incomplete but could include everyone from dick durbin of illinois to john mccainillinois and the news comes just hours after president obama and the european union each announced economic consequences today for those behind russia's advance into ukraine. >> we are imposing sanctions on specific individuals responsible for undermining the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and government of ukraine. we're making it clear that there are consequences for their actions. >> let's bring in russian journalist from moscow. here's the big question. the consequences, the sanctions that president obama and the european union announced today, is any of that going to change what putin and the russians are doing in crimea and ukraine? >> i hardly think that's a possibility. quite frankly, thus far at least, these are pinpricks. so, all right, certain people are not going to be able to travel to the united states. i think they can live with that and probably won't lose a lot of sleep over it and vice verse a.s some americans are not going to be able to travel to russia. that's

make dick durbin can make the second one. being any time soon. >> you're not on there jenna: i was planning to summer in st. pete peso i'm glad i cano that. right now the fate of osama bin laden's sobl hangs in the balance. he made a surprise appearance, testifying about a conversation he had with osama bin laden after the 9/11 attacks at his trial in new york city. jonathan is live with more on this. >> the al qaeda member may soon learn his fate. closing arguments in this case are likely to begin monday, could be tomorrow, and then his fate will be placed in the hands of the jury. that jury was, according to our courtroom producer, suddenly energized yesterday by the surprise appearance on the stand of the defendant himself, something no one expected and a clear gamble by his defense team. he admitted meeting osama bin laden on the night of the 9/11 attacks, having been summoned and then driven two to three hours to a cave in afghanistan. he told the court, osama bin laden said to him, quote, did you learn about what happen

after that, senators john mccain, dick durbin, and others hold a news conference. after that, another chance to see a ronald reagan symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the speech in which he endorsed barry goldwater for president. on the next "washington journal, " mary schiavo, former transportation department inspector general, will talk about the dissipation -- disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. dave levinthal examines the democratic party campaign against a koch brothers and angela stent, georgetown university east asian studies director, offers her opinion on vladimir putin and whether crimea will leave ukraine. as always, we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter all on "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. the united nations security council held an emergency meeting on ukraine. members voted 13-1 to approve a revolution -- resolution reapproved in ukraine sovereignty and declaring the upcoming resolution crimea on whether the region should become part of russia as invalid. russi

. >> yet, republican s jumped on dick durbin, revealing in a speech to a ukrainian american group a private read out that secretary of state john kerry gave him of the president's 90-minute phone call with putin over the weekend. >> he said it was ominous, worrisome, no commitments made by putin. >> more grist for republican critics like lindsey graham. >> you don't talk to putin for an hour and a half on the phone. you have about a five-minute conversation. mr. president, what you're doing is wrong, illegal. >> one area of bipartisanship appears to be the push for tough sanctions against russia, yet with uncertainty over whether european allies have the stomach for sanctions, some military analysts say the president was too quick to pull all u.s. military options off the table. >> we should immediately re-enforce the ukrainian military with high-tech weapons that they don't have. >> secretary kerry just landed in paris and brought along ukraine's foreign minister who hopes to meet with his russian counterpart, the ukrainian joking to reporters, if you had told me a week ago i would be on k

senators who helped draft the bipartisan immigration reform bill -- robert menendez of new jersey, dick durbin of illinois, and chuck schumer of new york -- have called on obama to stop the deportations. speaking at the group's annual gala, the head of the national council of la raza, janet murguÍa, called obama the nation's "deporter in chief." >> for us, the president has been deported in chief. any day now, the nation will reach a staggering number for deportation that far outstrips any predecessors and leaves behind it a wake of devastation for families across america. president says his administration does not have the authority to act on its own. all we hear is no -- no from congress, no from the administration. here is the thing -- we will not take no for an answer. >> responding at a town hall event on thursday, obama called himself the "champion-in-chief" of comprehensive immigration reform and repeated his claim to have done all he can within the confines of the law. house republicans have all but ruled out an immigration reform vote until after the mid-term elections. obama also cam

. >> dick durbin revealed what really happened during obama's 90 minute phone call with the russian president last weekend. >> i asked john kerry how the conversation was. >> he said it was ominous, there were no promises made. russia alerted u.s. officials several days before the crisis began. >> thank you. joining me live, former defense secretary don rumsfeld is with us. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us. do you think john mccain is right that in fact the president doesn't understand putin's ambition? >> well, sean, most of the discussion that's taking place is what's putin doing today, what should we do today. all this chatter about the world and the united nations. the cold hard facts are, it was syria, iran. it could be more activity in the prs and the south china sea. what's really happening is, the central problem is american weakness. we're managing our economy like juveniles and telling the world that in the next decade or two, we're not going to be there. we're cutting back our defense fund funds. when eisenhower and kennedy were in office, we spent 10% gdp on foreign defense

. >> illinois senator dick durbin talked about what action we might be able to take on the international stage. let's listen to that. >> in terms of a g8 summit, it could be a g7 summit. it's supposed to take place in russia - it can take place somewhere else. vladimir putin cannot be part of a family of civilized nation and act in an uncivilized way. >> talk of expelling russia from the g8, cancelling the summit in sochi. what can we do? >> we can absolutely do those things. there's no reason russia should be a g8. it should be a g7. they are not a rich democracy. they are neither rich nor a democracy. they should not be in the g8. there are sanctions that can be imposed on decision makers in russia, who violate international law. the sanctions on travel, financial holdings, property, those are serious and will affect them. i could suggest that there are some things militarily we can do, not with troops, but there are some things that we can do to help support the new ukrainian government that we have been doing over the many years with the ukrainian military, and we can continue doing

memorable experience with senator john mccain and senator dick durbin and the rest of my colleagues at maidan square in e. -- kiev. secretary of state john kerry is meeting with russian prime minister lavrov. here are his comments. >> ladies and gentlemen, we have had intensive day of negotiations with john kerry about the situation in the ukraine. of course both parties are, ourselves and our american partners are seriously concerned. we have expressed our position as to what is happening and what are the reasons for what is happening and what are the measures that the international community should take to begin an inclusive international dialogue that would overcome the deep split within the society and to implement the constitutional reform that should in our conviction take part interests of all the regions of ukraine. from our side we have expressed deep concern with the fact that not all necessary measures are being taken to provide security and order. no efficient measures are taken to prevent unlawful actions of radicals that escalate provocations including armed provocations

it's now banning nine federal lawmakers, including house speaker john boehner and senators dick durbin and john mccain. first lady michelle obama kicked off her week-long trip to china today with a visit to beijing's forbidden city and a stop at a school. mrs. obama is joined by her daughters, sasha and malia, and her mother. china's first lady also accompanied the obamas today. michelle obama plans to meet with more students to discuss education. she says her visit is not political and she will not give any media interviews while she is in china. some c-t-a train stations will be shut down tonight as an overhaul of the blue line gets underway. erik runge is live on the northwest side with more. >> it's the first of several shut downs along the blue line that we will see over the next several weeks. crews will shut down the california stops here at 10:00 tonight and that is between western and logan square. it will remain closed until monday at 4:00 a.m.. crews will start working on the tracks to make a smoother and faster ride for passengers. this is all part of the your new blue, $49

in the last couple of days, democrat dick durbin a senator from illinois, has ukrainian-american population there in chicago and gave a speech where he said that the secretary kerry told durbin on that phone call putin would not give in to anything, make any commitments to president obama. durbin said the call was ominous and worry something. republicans like lindsey graham are saying that this shows putin is not scared of the president. >> you don't talk to putin for an hour and a half on the phone. have you about a five-minute conversation. mr. president, what you are doing is wrong. it is illegal. >> now, john mccain on the senate flora few moments ago was blasting president obama saying that he tried to reset russian relations and was weak and mccain went on to say that we are now paying the price. >> ed henry from the white house. there is a long satellite delay as we are bouncing our satellite signal from here in kiev all the way to london and then up and back to the united states. so the delay in interviews is difficult. we hope you will bear with us as we bring in bill richardson, f

goes step by step, russia is reportedly proposing sanctions against american officials, including dick durbin. is he playing to his domestic audience there? >> i am sure he's playing to the domestic audience, for what he hopes will be history, he'll go down as the leader who got crimea back. i bet durbin doesn't have many assets in russia and doesn't care in he travels to russia. i suspect it may not bother him. on the other hand there are people in russia who own properties, houses in london and in new york, and in florida, and have financial assets. so i suspect that these sanctions that we are talking about will be more effective than the ones that the russians are talking about. >> if the sanctions are effective, why not put sanctions been vladimir putin himself. he's believed to have money stashed overseas in all places, including cypress. why not go after that? >> what are you going to do next? if you sanction vladimir putin, who will you talk to. vladimir putin has shown that when america does something to push him, he pushes hard. so you have pepsi cola, mcdonald's, all the american i

dick durbin and mark kirk said they are concerned that this move to expand could lead to more oil spills and they plan to hold bp accountable and make sure that steps are taken to presenpreveny oil spills in the future. >>more victims are being recovered from the landslide that buried homes in washington state. crews in the town of oso pulled two more bodies out yesterday. they say they believe they located eight more. that brings the death toll to 24. no one has been found alive since saturday. the force of the landslide tore apart homes and vehicles. but the recovery efforts continue, as rescue workers dig through thick mud and debris to find any signs of life. the area of devastation is one square mile. the search for a missing malaysian passenger jet resumed this morning because of a break in the weather in the southern indian ocean. and american equipment to help find the plane's locator beacon is now in australia. the latest development is the discovery that the plane may have sent out a partial "ping" after what was previously considered its last communication. experts are trying

according to the daily beast, senator dick durbin said, my lithuaniian mother would be product.ohn mccain who traveled to kiev last week to meet with ukrainian leaders was looking forward to and he said you think i'm not going to be on it? i would be honored to be on that list. it is not entirely clear whether putin's enemy list will include vice president joe biden. dispatched to warsaw to deal with the crisis did not appear bent on mending fences. >> unfortunately, russia's leaders have responded with a brazened military incursion with a purposeful ratcheting up of ethnic intention inside ukraine with a rushed and legal referendum in crimea that was not surprisingly reject by virtually the entire world. >> what it means to have the action rejected by virtually the entire world remains to be seen. ukraine reportedly issued order to do permitting its soldiers in crimea to use weapons to protect their lives as the prime minister said it had entered a military phase. moments ago nbc news confirmed that defense ministry report one of its soldiers was killed today during an assault

. >>> democratic senator dick durbin is on the foreign relations committee out front tonight. senator, great to have you with us. obviously, this is front and center for the president of the united states right now as he's been meeting with people talking about this, saying the next few days will be crucial. if vladimir putin sends more troops into crimea and eastern ukraine, what the united states do? >> there's a growing sense of resolve in europe and around the world against any aggression by putin in the crimea or beyond. and i think that it will be met with negative reaction. certainly at the political level, but beyond that, it could include sanctions, as well. >> and what about the issue of sanctions? senator harry reid said he doesn't think it the united states should act alone basically saying if u.s. allies express any kind of hesitation, there would be a big problem. some people criticized him and said that was a weak thing to say. it's a fact of things to say, 13 of the top 15 -- >> at this point the administration reached out to the leaders in europe. i met with t

lawmakers, we're hearing illinois democratic senator dick durbin, who pushed for the sanctions against russia, and arizona republican senator john mccain, of course, who has been strongly pushing against the russians. they may be barred from going to russia. they have no assets for the russians to freeze. mccain says he would be honored to be on enlist, and durbin says his lithuanian born mother would be proud of him. >> wendell goler live on the north lawn, thank you. more on this with the panel. >>> president obama urged palestinian president mahmoud abbas to end the steal mate in the middle east peace talks. they met at the white house today before a u.s.-imposed deadline for completing a framework for peace talks. so far, neither the palestinians or israelis seem willing to pudge on talking points. president obama had a similar meeting with benjamin netanyahu. earlier this morning, u.s. forces took control of a tanker seized earlier. >> good evening, bret. about 30 u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s launched the mission from the uss roosevelt, a navy destroyer operating in the mediterranean. the

the president of the united states, dick durbin, all said -- the irs did it -- >> felt it was -- >> and, you want to be outraged. you want to be indignant. >> i'm outraged by people like you who don't allow the facts to come forward so we have a nonpartisan investigation. >> i'm open for an investigation, what is lois lerner hiding? >> well, if chairman issa would have allowed her attorney to serve -- we actually might have been able to get -- >> i would like to bring you back. >> he broke the rules of our committee, he needs to apologize. and bring decorum and civility back to the house of representatives. >> thank you, next time we'll talk about harry reid's power grab when he set the rules and set a press didn't. >>> listen to this, a man gets drunk in las vegas and loses half a million dollars, does he have a case? also on my radio show yesterday i said that for the first time in my adult life. i'm humiliated for my country, some liberals are angry at me. i'll respond directly, i'll stand by my statement. later on in the show. [ sneezes, coughs ] i'veot a big date, but my sinuses ar

that's democrat dick durbin. so as not to undermine their shared efforts to governor. here's what senator kirk explained his decision to reporters. >> i am going to be protecting my relationship with dick and not launching into a partisan jihad that hurts our partnership to both pull together for illinois. >> for the increasingly novel approach of putting substance over politics, senator mark kirk is our hero today. all right, we turn now to a decidedly more insidious partnership. yesterday, a federal jury found five former employees of bernie madoff guilty of 31 counts of helping the disgraced financier lie, cheat, steal, bankrupt families and destroy lyes. this last week, madoff interviewed from the prison where he is serving a 150-year sentence defended his former aides, saying they weren't aware of what they were doing. really? about a scheme dating back to the '70s. if there's one person i trust, it's bernie madoff. but the jury disagreed with his assessment and sent them packing. we would add the newly minte

for a week shortly before the primary, he is now the official underdog facing democratic senator dick durbinin the house, a couple of notable primaries. adam kinsinger easily held off a tea party activist, winning 78%. again, a pretty moderate electorate that turned out. rodney davis also held off a challenge. this one from a former miss america. and, well, now dddc ann callis will actually be one of the closer house races in illinois. one more thing. just three of 47 statehouse republicans voted for a bill last fall to legalize same-sex marriage. neither of those three lost. tom cross easily won. for state treasurer. ed sullivan won renomination, and in the 81st district, it's too close to call, but he's up by 153 votes. >>> meanwhile, before we go to break, a little more developing news on a deal between toyota and the u.s. justice department. it was just announced that toyota has agreed to a $1 billion settlement over customer complaints that its cars would suddenly and unpredictably accelerate. officials tell nbc's pete williams that in return for the $1 billion settlement and toyota mak

members of the russian parliament or some senior foreign policy advisers, they do the same thing to dick durbinator from illinois or john mccain, and that's going to be that? is that where this is going? >> well, i think unless he goes further. the question is what are the additional events that take place? if it's just crimea, i think robert gates is sadly probably right. that crimea is lost. the question i think is we are holding sanctions in reserve as a way of having something to hold over his head to try to keep him from further destabilizing the rest of ukraine. >> the tension between the u.s. and russia is about as bad as it's been since the collapse of the soviet union. >> it has big implications. we would need russia to put some pressure on bashar assad to make some kind of agreement. it may have implications for the russians' relationship with iran, which could make our efforts at cutting a diplomatic deal much harder. so it's a problem, because we have these terrible relations with russia, understandably now, but we also still need to do business with russia. >> the thought is the u.

senators including democratic senator dick durbin and republican senator john mccain.g of senator mccain, he continues to hammer president obama's response to the unfolding crisis. >> vladimir putin must be encouraged by the absolute timidity. i don't know when the president and his advisers are going to wake up to what putin is really all about. >> henry kissinger once told president nixon that withdrawals of troops from vietnam were like salted peanuts, to which the american people would become addicted. after this weekend's vote in crimea, i'm wondering if vladimir putin will be able to resist the temptation to annex something else. the biggest city in ukraine and only a few miles from the russian border. and if this round of relatively mild sanctions is not the end, then what does the next step look like? joining me now is democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut, member of the committee on foreign relations who just got back from ukraine. and senator murphy, you along with senator mccain, i think, have been the two most outspoken members of the united states

now, at the same time, a group of eight senators, led by john mccain and dick durbin, will head to ukrainery of state will meet his russian counterpart, foreign minister lavrov, in london tomorrow in a last-ditch attempt to see if there's anything to stop this faux referenda about to hit on sunday. >>> let's move to malaysia. conflicts reports about the fate of the jetliner on day six of the search. this morning, local officials are dismissing a "wall street journal" report that said u.s. investigators believe the plane may have remained in the air for hours, four hours exact, after losing contact with the ground. military authorities previously indicated the plane may have gone off course and turned west shortly after dropping off commercial radar. because of that, the international search effort has continued to expand and it now covers 35,000 square miles in and around the indian ocean and the gulf of thailand. of course, chinese sat images picked up possible debris from the plane's last confirmed position, but planes sent to the area turned up nothing. this "wall street journal" report

. >> that was senator dick durbin talking earlier this morning about proposed sanctions personally threatened against him from russia and against several colleagues. we are all trying to figure out at this point what is going through vladimir putin's mind. today, a day after announcing he would make the crimea region a part of russia, he is continuing to tighten his grip and flummox the international community. russian forces, remember, seized control of the headquarters of the ukrainian navy there in crimea. and vice president joe biden is touring eastern europe in countries trying to ease jittery allies that are similarly confused by putin's actions. here just hours ago is biden. >> russia has chosen to respond with military aggression, a referendum rejected by virtually the entire world. illegal efforts to annex crimea. and now reports of armed attacks against ukrainian military personnel and installations in crimea. i want to make it clear, we stand resolutely with our baltic allies in support of ukrainian people and against russian aggression. >> in many ways, this story is about underst

that was senator dick durbin explaining that the u.s.tion affords everyone the right to a lawyer no matter what crime that person may or may not have committed. what prompted the lesson? the vote to confirm debo adegbile, his nominee to head the civil rights division. adegbile's nomination by blocked by every single republican and seven democrats. not because of his qualifications but because of the man he once gepd defended. he joined an appeal for a abu-jamal, a convicted criminal sentenced to death for killing a philadelphia police officer. apparently some believe his legal duty, that issagage bile' legal duty -- they describe him as a yiktsed cop killer ardent defender. joe manchin one of the democrats who opposed his nomination invoked the murder of the slain police officer saying i made a conscientious decision after talking to the wife of the victim. this is the first of president obama's nominees to be rejected under the new post nuclear option senate rules which require just simple majority for confirmation. the president releas

democratic senator dick durbin of illinois and republican jeff flake of arizona.ce to have you here in the studio after a long trip. i appreciate you being here. i'm operating, senator durbin, on the is this that crimea is gone, ha this vote moves forward. what's the plan to change putin's calculation to either get him to reverse this or to stop where he is? >> first the selection, a referendum is a lame accuse by putin to invade crimea and take it over. when you move in thousands of russian troops from sochi olympics to garrison their positions in krooipia, then to have these masked gunmen with automatic weapons roaming the streets, what a delight nufl election atmosphere. we know what the ending is going to be. now the west has to decide, no the just the west but the civilized world has to decide whether we're going to do anything. >> but what's the thing? >> there are plenty of things we can do. the president working now to put together an agenda. we passed jeff and i are on the we passed a measure last weeking that provides not onlien economic assistance to uk

in fact, listen to what senator dick durbin said this morning on "morning joe." >> there reaches a point we're at that point -- where he's clearly going to take over crimea and maybe poised to move into eastern ukraine if f we don't take a stand, a good, hard, tough stand against him now with our european allies he's going to continue. >> ann, you and i have talked about this. the concern about eastern ukraine and whether or not there will be a destabilization or a taking over. so what are the specific options now that the white house might be looking at. >> well, as p.j. alluded to, the most immediate option is sanctions and also a continuation of what vice president biden is doing today which is sort of making the rounds to reassure allies and nato members who are at the outer edges of nato and at the front doorstep of russia. but the administration is also confronting and so are the europeans the really bald fact that every single thing they've done so far has failed to stop putin from doing -- taking the next step. i mean, every single time they've drawn a line he's crossed it. so es

dick durbin, the democrats' number two in the senate, issued an official response and he said, "my lithuanian-born mother would be proud her son made vladimir putin's american enemies list." and john mccain piped up with his trademark sense of humor adding, "i'd be honored to be on that list. i guess i'm going to have to try to withdraw my money from my secret account in st. petersburg." joining us now are steve clemons, washington editor at large for the atlantic and msnbc contributor and adrian karatnitsky. adrian's a managing partner for the miramidu.n. group which advises companies looking to enter ukraine. did i say that right? >> sort of. >> say. >> mirmaden. >> the consequences here. we've heard some talk about this being a relatively small number of individuals the u.s. is currently targeting. and there you have putin looking to do some sort of ceremonial or more blockage back. >> well, this is a sequenced set of sanctions. the u.s. has made it clear and europe has made it clear that they're going to ratchet this up as russia misbehaves and ratchets up its pressure. so this could accelerat

disappointed by vladimir putin's threat of sanctions against the u.s., picking out senators like dick durbin. what do you make of all that? >> look, this is a complex knot and terrible, tragic knot for crimea, in my view is largely gone. what the president is trying to do, hopes there's a didnplomati solution that will get a standown in the process. that's unlikely. what we have to look at is vladimir putin in speech he gave today, this was a deeply nationalistic speech. a proud speech. a speech that wasn't repentant or have an ounce of contrition or uncertain. putin has courted this on confrontation because he sensed western weakness and the kind of sanctions they've deployed are pin pricks in terms of their intention and where they'd like to go. in my sense, vladimir putin sees this as a defining challenge for himself and has risen to it and is showing the west you don't have much to control over me or not nearly as much as you think you do. so we have two powers going like this and both happen to be critical strategic stakeholders in the global stability equation. so it's very, very worri