dr. brzezinski, it's always a pleasure to have you on andy your perspective.nd to have for -- your perspective. >> thank you for inviting me. ofcoming up, the chairman royce ona, ed political capital. and we will look at growth trends, why one of the world's biggest management consulting firms is saying to bet on a so-called old dog markets. ♪ >> just a few months after walmart got a new ceo, the company is appointing a new head of its u.s. business. julie hyman covers the story. it seems like walmart covers the country, too. where is he going? >> right now, phil simon is not going anywhere. but simon is also someone that was talked about as a potential ceo. the job over got him. it is not shocking that he is leaving. the same store sales have been lagging. is a sign of what is going on with the broader economy. also, the supercenter model, having a bigger store, has not been as successful. towardare gravitating more traditional grocery stores. there is a two-year noncompete clause as part of simon's contract. that means for the next two years, we will not nec

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dr. brzezinski, we'll start with you, then dr. hadley, and then we'll get to questions. just push the button there. yeah. since i know your time has been very limited, i don't think i'm going to read to to you my statement, even though it's fairly short. i'm here to summarize the key three points i try to make in it. i acknowledge the fact that what putin tried to do three months ago in regards to crimea is not the same thing as he's trying to do to ukraine as a whole. nonetheless, at the time, it generated enormous enthusiasm in russia and in fact a session of the russian parliament at which he presided on march 18th was really like a jamboree and russia's world war, the unity of all russian speakers around the world and the role of russia as a global civilization. since then realism has gun to intrude more directly. . that ukraine will fall quickly. that ukraine is not resigned the to being a member of the rename ld version of the soviet union, and that there is a rising world in ukraine to deal with the legacies of wasted 20 years of ukraine and independence and that

dr. zbigniew brzezinski. dad, great to have you on. thank you.e there was word this morning that as many as 30 soldiers and border guards may have been killed by a rebel missile attack. that is according to reuters who is cited interior ministry officials. so things are brewing, bubbling over in ukraine once again. you have written recently about some options looking forward in ukraine. can you tell us about that? >> yes. it seems to me that in the case of ukraine, as well as in some other cases, we can't lead simply by following. we are waiting for our european friends to agree to sanctions on russia to destabilize and intimidate ukraine. to me it seems time is overdue for acting on our own. the united states should simply go ahead and impose sanctions. we know from experience of the sanctions against iran that the united states imposing certain kind of sanctions encourages others to emulate that eventually out of self-interest. and we should do the same in the case of ukraine. otherwise, it is quite possible that in spite of the progress made s

dr. brzezinski a few days ago about the tumultuous times we live in. but, my gosh, a lot of explosions across the globe at the same time. >> well, there is a lot of movement in the world and a lot of hatred. you burn a kid alive in the middle east, that isn't meant to end a fight, that is meant to ignite a fight. that is pouring gasoline on the fire literally in this case and people want a war. the hamas group hate israeli and want to kept fighting. we keep acting like peace is the norm. since when? maybe in europe after a couple of thousand years settle on the borders especially in the balkans. people are tribal in a lot of areas of the world and religious justifies their killing and the hatred. this is the norm now. we assume people the want to get around the peace table and settle things and i don't think so. no fact that we have a special ability to bring them to the peace table. i'm rooting like everybody is for kerry to stop the deal of the weaponization of the nuclear program in iran and still hopeful he can pull it off because the alternative i

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dr. brzezinski and others who have been seeking peace for such a long time in this region, the great tragedywered in the eyes of the palestinian people or at least a large segment of the palestinian people as protectors against israel. >> joe, i think that's right. hamas has certainly played the media element of this quite well. but i think something else has also played into it, which is that both sides were dug in, i think, in this case, the israelis and hamas, in ways that i think surprised each other. so israel discovered that this tunnel network was much more extensive than they had believed, and as a result when you had the president saying a week ago, president obama saying a week ago that israel had inflicted significant damage, the israeli assessment was quite different. and hamas, i think, realized along the way that the longer they could keep up these barrages, the more they could demonstrate that they actually had emerged as a much more powerful force than i think many palestinians had believed. by virtue of the fact that the rocket attacks continue even now, even after this pret