fiona hill i begin with you and i have three questions and i would like for each of you to sort of get to it. where are we right now, how did we get there and where are we going and what are the risks in terms of where we're going. start with in fact a sense of why did this happen now and what is the moment that we're at now and then where are we going. >> well the precipitous events for the series of protests that have led us to this situation where yanukovych is now has essentially fled and resigned being president of ukraine was checkered off by a summit for the european union. ukraine was scheduled, this is the end of november and the capital where ukraine was scheduled to sign an agreement with the eu the association and joining a free trade area. yanukovych decided not to sign it. he said this to his europeans and a series of protests broke out in the heart of kiev but over time really morphed into these huge scale demonstrations we saw. from being a protest against yanukovych's decision to essentially protest against his rule and against the whole system of governance in ukraine

. >> she plays fiona, an over the top mom, also a strict vegan and sets some ground rules for her neighboray off screens that would be good. tv, computer, video games. oh, also, if you could make sure that he doesn't eat meat, fish, fowl, gluten, sugar or dairy. >> what can he eat? >> everything else. if he eats a nut, he's dead. >> that's a great clip because that's how we fell in love with the show, the writing is terrific. you're so well cast. kept 76%. >> yeah, we hit 76% of our audience. >> at olympics. >> which is really difficult to do. >> i didn't know that meant if that meant -- >> it's good. >> that's fantastic. >> you kept your british accent in this. tell us why. >> well, i think there is an enormous amount of comedy to be mined from a british accent anyway, and a different culture and more of a fish out of water thing for fiona, who is already -- she makes things harder than they need to be. >> why doesn't marcus speak with an english accent? >> well, my son has an american accent. i think because -- >> we don't know how long -- >> exactly. she's just moved to san francisco in

and that is one of the pretexts that they could use. >> fiona hill, what is the impact? is a statement like the one that cameç out today, secretary kerry saying it would be a terrible mistake or words to that affect for the russians to do something, the white house itself putting out a statement. how is that read by moscow do you think? >> the problem we have right now is we have all kinds of competing narratives about what is happening. the russians have also been accusing frankly the united stitz and the european union have directly intervening here as well. so sometimes the statements are not received in the way that we would hope they are in moskow. this might be seen as grandstanding in fact. rather than as a very clear statement that there is a red line here. we were as nadia suggested in the situation before in 2008, before the war with georgia in august of 2008, similar statements were made on all kinds of sides. and there was also a situation there where many citizens of russia, people without were living in the ses sessionist republic had assumed russian citiz

fiona, along with her colleague in our foreign policy program, wrote a book on mr. putin. that is the title, in fact. it is on sale in our bookstore. but you don't have to go even to the bookstore to get a copy of angela's book, which is right outside of this auditorium. as for peter, he has a new book ," whiched "days of fire covers a great deal of ground, 'scluding president bush 43 ability to look into the eyes and see into the soul of his foreign counterpart. maybe that will, but in the course of our conversation. peter and his wife, susan g lasser, a number of years ago -- i guess you updated it in 2007, 2008, something like that -- "kremlin rising," based on her own reporting from russia. panel that not a topic angs to the certain amount of expertise, but also shows here at brookings reaching out to the larger community of people working on issues that our scholars are here. angela is very much part of the brookings family. she is a nonresident senior fellow in foreign policy. peter, despite the demands of his day job, has been very good about attending a number of o

fiona hill, i begin with you. i would like -- where are we right now, how did we get there, and where are we going and what are the risks? start with why did this happen now and what is the moment that we are at now and where we are going? >> the precipitating event for the series of protests that have led us to the situation were triggered off by summits from the european union. ukraine was scheduled to sign an agreement with the eu, an agreement of association and joining a free trade area. yanukovych decided against it. this is widely understood to be under pressure from russia, which was set, and a series of protests broke out in the hearts of kiev. they morphed into the huge scale demonstrations that we saw. there were protests against from yanukovych's decision and move to his rule and the whole system of government in ukraine itself. the focus has been on the independent square in kiev. over the last couple of weeks, it has been that decision to use force to press and on the protesters that has triggered of

fiona, along with her colleague in our foreign policy program, wrote a book on mr. putin. that is the title, in fact. it is on sale in our bookstore. but you don't have to go even to the bookstore to get a copy of angela's book, which is right outside of this auditorium. as for peter, he has a new book out called "days of fire," which covers a great deal of ground, including president bush 43's ability to look into the eyes and see into the soul of his foreign counterpart. maybe that will come up in the course of our conversation. peter and his wife, susan glasser, a number of years ago -- i guess you updated it in 2007, 2008, something like that -- "kremlin rising," based on your own reporting from russia. so we have here a panel that not only brings to the topic a certain amount of expertise, but also shows here at brookings reaching out to the larger community of people working on issues that our scholars are here. angela is very much part of the brookings family. she is a nonresident senior fellow in foreign policy. peter, despite the demands of his day job, has been v

fiona i think most of you know is the director of our center on the united states and europe. many things in common with the author of the hour. both of them served as the national intelligence officers and the intelligence community of our government. both of them, by the way, have not typically american accents, which is also an interesting point. they served this government and this nation very well, keeping an eye on -- i guess it was called the eurasian complex. we also have with us peter baker of "the new york times." they are all authors. fiona, along with her colleague in our foreign policy program, wrote a book on mr. putin. that is the title, in fact. it is on sale in our bookstore. but you don't have to go even to the bookstore to get a copy of angela's book, which is right outside of this auditorium. as for peter, he has a new book out called "days of fire," which covers a great deal of ground, including president bush 43's ability to look into the eyes and see into the soul of his foreign counterpart. maybe that will come up in the course of our conversation. pete

and my supervisor jane kim, fiona ma, including the governor of california for supporting me to make my dream come true [speaker not understood]. thank you, god bless all of you. >>> my name is ernestine [speaker not understood] weiss and i'm here specifically to talk about the effects of lighting and not having good lights in this city. yesterday we had a crime committed and two stabbings on the embarcadaro, drumm street and sacramento. that is right in my backyard. i live a block away from sacramento and the embarcadaro. years ago when the embarcadaro was being restylized, i said, put white sodium lights up on the embarcadaro. light it up like daylight so people would be able to come out and be safe. nothing was ever done. here it is years and years later and finally i hear about street lighting. now, the fact is when you light up the streets, it's a crime stopper. criminals don't like the light. they like the dark. pedestrian safety, we wouldn't have so many people killed at night because muni doesn't save them. the cars don't save them. it is disgraceful. number three, economics.

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fiona i think most of you know is the director of our center on the united states and europe.any things in common with the author of the hour. both of them served as the national intelligence officers and the intelligence community of our government. both of them, by the way, have not typically american accents, which is also an interesting point. they served this government and this nation very well, keeping an eye on -- i guess it was called the eurasian complex. we

. >> fiona is neurotic a little, maybe. >> a lot. >> overprotective maybe a little. >> a lot. >> she'sows someone a bit like fiona this day and age where there is -- they've embraced their lifestyle to the point of sort of hilarious self-righteousness. when you're wafting someone else's barbecue smoke back into their yard, you know you've got a problem and it's quite funny. >> you need to get a grip. she's a mom, i mentioned, single mom. you are a mom. and this schedule works for you? this -- doing this show. you have a 5-year-old. >> i do. and i -- listen, this is the most amazing job for me to be able to be home sleeping in my bed at night, making it to some of his sporting events, sometimes being able to take him to school. it's pretty great. in fact, it's very great. >> this was kind of a week where we're talking about body image here on the "today" show. you're in a business and have been for a while now that puts a lot of emphasis on appearance. >> yes. >> you've dealt with this in the past. >> yes. >> what advice would you give a teenager or a young adult in terms of trying to b

if two groups who said the new fiona version price to pay for the fact most texans but she of the fact that there is no heat on the other cheek in may. so secondly whether or not to kick it when folks there's just enough when you thought she fought to get rid of kr two hundred connections you can make which he took out the total numbers for most of french companies. it is ever get a chance to get this amount of money available or that god is a fundamental question is a cultural differences and not a between united states and france which is difficult to imagine being breached the question of whether it is okay to want to get rates he's now. i am release this discrepancy in perception the u s and i am fronds that what's true and there is in this sorry in taxation on repeat as one hundred year it was squeaking in france in nineteen fourteen it's one hundred yen. hans was the last country. it has been tweaked it a fixation on me next week sending us this is interesting to see how that's mine. that's okay. mimi there is a perception of me and my needle on my etsy friends and fans come to s

. >> what is fiona doing. >> kids love to play on screens. puppet. good, good. >> fiona, thank you. >> thank you. >> olivia and jack, what are they doing? >> they're playing this great new game from r and r game. it is an under the radar game company. this is called attraction. it is like marbles. you have the shooter marble, but it is magnets. you shoot them and whatever you attract, you get to collect. >> i love that. >> and this is at the toy fair as well. a fun spin on magnet games, r and r games, really, really fun. >> the kid with the most at the end wins. >> exactly. two to four players. be careful with the magnets. >> michael and lindsey. >> this is a dad invented idea. this is called the ari ball. put the russian doll of -- >> a different ball all the way through? >> the football is in here. then there is also -- >> stop it. >> and then in there -- the baseball and also comes with a bat that turns into -- hold this for me -- a golf club. it is on kick starter right now. they're trying to raise some money to -- >> that's a great proto