we will speak with jack matlock who served as a last u.s. ambassador to the soviet union. what he says about russia may surprise you. then moral mondays spread to were 39 people were arrested at the state capitol this week. >> we will speak with one of those arrested -- reverend raphael warnock, senior pastor of the avenues or baptist church come the church of dr. martin luther king. then as death penalty drugs become scarce, the assistant oklahoma attorney general jokes with a texas colleague he might be able to help texas get the drugs in exchange for 50 yard line tickets for top college football game between university of oklahoma and the university of texas. this is revealed in an e-mail obtained by the colorado independent, which also exposed how oklahoma injected leftover lethal drugs into a dead prisoner's body. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the ukrainian government is withdrawing his soldiers from crimea as russian forces continue to seize military bases. the announcement from uk

. >> can ambassador jack matlock, george benetez, thank you. >> thank you antonio. >>> switching to the malaysia flight 370. on friday they had no luck finding two pieces of what could be aircraft debris that were detected by a satellite last sunday. australian prime minister tony abbott told reporters the search planes would be back. >> it is about the most inaccessible spot can you imagine on the face of the earth but if there is anything down there we will find it. >> a few more possible clues have surfaced. according to cnn american investigators say chief pilot zaharie ahmed shah deleted files from his flight simulator after malaysian authorities said they were removed. the british newspaper telegraph shows nothing other than routine chatter shortly before communication he s ceased. the pilot took off the significance of that if any is not known. >>> meanwhile the malaysian transport minister thanked the cungcountries for their help. secretary hagel said he'd update the minister in the future. i'm joined by mike williamson, a marine acoustic credit specialist, founder of williams a

a well kept secret some of us like myself and steve cohen my friend of my other friend jack matlock the former ambassador to the soviet union of course under president reagan we we try to represent no no no it's not necessarily a pro russian position it's a position that tries to take into account russia's strategic political geographic cultural historical concerns. you know and at the council and. for ethics in international affairs we like to quote certain political philosophers like holmes morgan who encourages us who exhorted us to see things from the other person's point of view it doesn't mean that you're capitulating or abandoning the u.s. national interests or position but you're you're simply taking into account what the other side feels and again they're being as i said events since the end of the cold war where russia has felt either rejected humiliated interest not taken into account and i think that's important for us to know that answer your question directly i'm delighted to say the people even if they may be in a moment of minority people whose views i trust and value an