margaret, thank you very much. you heard margaret mention the u.s. is working on unspecified economic sanctions against russia but there's not a lot of support from the allies. here's anthony mason. >> reporter: the threat of economic sanctions has not kept russia from taking a tighter hold on ukraine's crimean peninsula. do you think the u.s. and the europeans are willing to let putin keep crimea? >> i don't think that they have much of a choice. >> reporter: willis sparks is an analyst with the eurasia group, a leading global consulting firm. >> the europeans don't want a direct confrontation with the russians because europe draws 28% of its natural gas from russia. >> reporter: two-third of that gas travels in pipelines through ukraine. germany gets 38% of its gas from russia, italy 22%, france 18. the u.s. has little economic leverage, only 2% of its trade is with russia. but sparks says the west's most effective move is to pump billions in economic aid into the new government in kiev, which is close to default. >> it's not about sanctions. it's

margaret, elizabeth's sister, got a call from one of the girls. >> she said, margaret, there's been an fell down the stairs and died. >> i'm like, do you know what you're saying? the same thing happened to elizabeth. she said, i know. >> margaret decided she had no choice but to pick up the phone and call the detective working the kathleen peterson case. >> do you know that my sister in 1985 had an accident. she fell down the stairs and died and michael was the last person to be with her? >> its detective did not know that. >> here i have two women that appear to die the same way. two women that are associated with mike peterson. >> the detective started digging into the elizabeth ratliff story. he learned that pathologist who attributed elizabeth's death to natural causes back in 1985 couldn't say for certain what had caused her brain hemorrhage. had she been the victim of a stroke, a fall, or foul play? the north carolina authorities decided the only way to know for sure would be to have the body exhumed from the grave in texas and look for themselves. disturbing what they found. >>

we are right back. ♪ >> we will turn to margaret colson in just a moment.ebamacare contraceptive split the high court. could probably companies deny employees contraceptive coverage because of their employees religious belief? >> it appears that corporations would be able to claim some religious right. it is not clear how this case comes about. the obama administration is making the case that it is not just the lives of the religious corporation but the employees. the women who have a statutory right to get contraceptive coverage. it is not clear how the court will weigh those factors. inthe contraceptive decision 1965, you had nine men who had no idea what they were talking about. this time there are three women justices. >> we may have a gender divide in this case. female justices were the ones who were most favorable to the administration. this case really does have that gender aspect to it because it is contraceptives for women that are the issue. you may see that come out. >> a familiar refrain, anthony kennedy is the swing vote people say. does that m

margaret, let me start with you.he obama administration extended the deadline for healthcare sign up. is that good news so that more people can sign up? or bad news because it is another delay? >> it is allowing them to hit that 6 million target that they wanted and get closer to that 7 million target. there is some concern as these delays continue to pile up that it will affect the program. >> we know they will have about 6.2 million people signed up. that is really not bad. do we know -- how many of those people are young and healthy and pay their premiums? >> we don't know yet. it is about 25%. we aren't sure how close they are to the 40% which is the ratio they want for the system to pay for itself. insurers are looking at the federal sign-ups but also what is happening state-by-state because that is what makes the difference. >> some states are doing great like california and some states like maryland are just doing awful. >> it will take some time even after this march 31 -- >> it all depends how it affects ins

. >>> margaret warner reports from crimea, where a critical referendum will be held tomorrow. and how the crisis in ukraine is seen from the largest ukrainian community in america. >> what this crisis has done is forced people to say, you know, i guess i'm ukrainian, and i guess it means something politically. >> next, on pbs news hour weekend. >>> pbs news hours weekend is made possible by, louis b. and louise hersh feld. the cheryl and phillip milstein family. roslyn p. walter. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support is provided by, and by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tish studios in lincoln center from new york. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. there were several major developments today in the story that has captivated the world for the past week, the disappearance of that malaysian jetliner with 239 people onboard. the prime minister o

margaret warner joins us from crimea. so what was it like at the polls today?> the thing that surprised me today was the high turnout we did observe at the four polling stations he went to. the one exception was at a district that is heavily muslim, they said they would boycott the vote and it was only 10%. the voters seem in a celebratory move. the head of one polls station said all slavic people, this is a very big day for them. what they said, they don't understand that this is calling -- causing a huge east/west confrontation. the concerns were practical. they talked about having more jobs in investment if they joined russia. they also talked about feeling much more at home with russia. you know, this is an area that for 300 years was part of russia and the soviet union, and they almost all complained about being forced to fill out forms in ukrainian, for example. so there seems to be a kind of yearning and also a feeling that the worst -- is hostile, or at least has people in it hostile to two russian speakers and ethnic russians here. >> speaking of pract

gentlemen, well, margaret sounded fairly ominous. david, what are we headed for? >> i think that ominousness is fully merited. the russians are amassing troops on the border, whipped up fervor, talking about the russians killed and harassed within ukraine. if putin decides to escalate, what else is there? i wouldn't want to bet on it but i think there's a possibility of something cataclysmic happening in the next couple of weeks or whatever. it's important to remember, for putin, if you're an autocrat in the world, what's the essential conflict? between you and the square, and it's important to show you can beat the square and the square is not the future, by that i mean the popular uprising. two ways putin can do that. first, take over part of ukraine. the second is to trash the country and sow chaos throughout ukraine so the country begins to fall apart, and that is something i know administration officials are also thinking. >> woodruff: you see something cataclysmic coming? >> i hope not, judy. i think one of the mistakes we made in the analysis of this is we

i spoke to margaret a short time ago. margaret, hello. first of all, this news that ukraine is announcing plans to pull all of its troops out of crimea, what are you hearing? >> well, judy, this news just broke in the last hour so we called the aid decamp of the colonel commanding the military base which is right near the capitol whom we interviewed in our piece on friday, and this aide decamp said as far as they know, they've received no orders yet, just still hunkered down. however, the orders are not surprising from kiev in that the acting president said something like a week or ten days ago they do not have forces to send down to crimea to rescue or fight back for crimea because they will not be able to defend the region where i am now which is southeastern ukraine along the russian border. >> woodruff: you've now moved into a different part of ukraine. how different does it feel, margaret, from crimea? >> you know, really different, usedy, and i'm kind of surprised because i've read so much about the pro russia demonstration, more vi

that's margaret sanger. that's margaret sanger whose was adorns an award that so revered by secretary clinton and now by former speaker pelosi. that's unbelievable. that anybody would be held in high esteem, who would make that statement, the most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. for heaven's sake. that's not all. he had plenty more to say. she said we should apply stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted or whose inherentans is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring. in her -- and that was from plan for peace from birth control review, april, 1932. e first quote i read was woman and the new race from chapter 6, the wickedness of creating large families. but then from america needs a code for babies in march of 1934, article 1, the purpose of the american baby code shall be to provide for a better distribution of babies. and it protects society against the propagati

margaret brennan is in london for us tonight. margaret? >> reporter: secretary kerry's meeting with his russian counter-part lasted almost six hours, and kerry told lavrov the u.s. is very concerned about those russian troops along ukraine's border. but lavrov wasn't receptive. kerry and lavrov began with a warm greeting outside the u.s. ambassador's residence in london this morning. but after that, the talk was tough. kerry issued a set of proposals- - call off sunday's referendum in crimea, an event the u.s. calls a sham. consider allowing crimea greater autonomy, instead of becoming part of russia. and order all russian troops back to their bases. an unflinching lavrov dismissed every u.s. proposal. russia refused to call off the referendum, said it will respect its results, and that president putin would make no decision on whether to annex crimea until after the weekend vote. >> there is a different way to proceed. >> reporter: following the meeting, kerry told reporters there would be consequences but didn't name them. >> if russia d

thanks, margaret. today, in south africa, evidence mounted against track star oscar pistorius, famous for running on prosthetic blades after losing his legs as a child. pistorius on trial for murder and deborah patta is there. >> reporter: once the darling of the media, the track star and olympic athlete now runs a gauntlet of reporters to get inside the courtroom each day. he's charged with the premeditated murder of his glamorous girlfriend reeva steenkamp. pistorius claims he had no intention of killing her, mistaking her for a burglar. the prosecution is trying to paint a picture of a violent, gun-obsessed man given to murderous fits of rage. pistorius' friend, professional boxer kevin lerena, told us pistorius was passionate about his gun collection. he testified he met a group of friends, including the track star, in a packed restaurant when pistorius accidentally fired a pistol under the table. larena said he was shocked. >> the bullet never hit my foot, thank god. the shrapnel caught me, i was

the ukraine debacle, and margaret carlson debates the political pull of bill clinton. we begin the program with a longest serving member of congress, ever. served with 11 presidents. he announced his retirement this week. it is a privilege to have john dingell. thank you for being here. >> god bless you. you still call me john. >> you have revered the institution. what reforms would you make? >> one is the nasty partisanship. that is a great shame. it shouldn't be that way. the congress means the coming together. the great assemblage of the american people to decide the issues that are important. all of the business has been moved into the office of the speaker. newt gingrich started that. it gave control over the then congress. they had the control they wanted to run the place they wanted. >> you would return some of that power? >> you bet i would. >> but with the money in politics, the 24 hour news cycle, do you worry that rather than a temporary cycle, this may be a condition for a long time? >> i am afraid that it is so. i am very much afraid that the congress will

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margaret, it's good to see you again. you have been traveling to southeastern ukraine, to crime.an't tonight you're in kiev in the maidan, looks like. how are people reacting there to what we saw come out of the hague today with strong tough words for putin? >> the official level, we met with the economy minister today. they're very grateful for economic assistance and the threat of sanctions against putin, but i have to say from the general public there was really a feel that what the u.s. and west are doing is grossly insufficient, the idea of threat of perspective sanctions hasn't stopped putin, isn't going to stop him now, and they feel they have been left to fight one on one with the russians. i sat in the cafe off maidan with the former defense minister sunday who said, you know, the u.s. and the brits in particular who signed this memory dumb in # $4 where ukraine gave up the third largest arsenal in the world, ukraine thought it was on the basis russia and the u.s. and u.k. would preserve the integrity of ukraine. the u.s. says it wasn't that kind of a treaty, bu treat. s

hello, margaret, sorry you had to talk to us in the rain. people in washington are saying the vote is fraudulent. what are they saying there about the claim. >> reporter: judy, before it started raining, we talked to people on the streets who, one, hadn't heard of the charge and two dismissed it. they said, you can't believe what you read on the internet. an hour ago, i talked to the media adviser to the prime minister who was one of those hit with sanctions from the obama administration and he hadn't even heard about it and expressed total confidence that, in the coming days, president putin and the russian will vote and it will be a done deal. whatever the international community is saying, russian supporters established new facts on the ground and given putin a huge card to play here woovr woofer in your report, you show some people are not happy with the results of this referendum. is there a chance there could be violence? >> i'd hate to predict, judy, but i don't think so at the moment. as you said, there are two sizable minorities unh

so is margaret thatcher. margaret thatcher did a phenomenal job in turning around the trajectory of the united thatom, and her reward for , much like the reward for winston churchill, was that ultimately she was turned out of power. a classic example of someone who was right by my perspective, and by i suspect everybody in the room, i don't mean right of center, i mean correct, who was rejected by the british body politic. a conservative who stands on his or her principles, the most conservative will always be elected. how did that turn out in 1964 with goldwater? how did it turn out with sharron angle and christine o'donnell and todd akin question mark it simply isn't true. i wish it was true, but it simply isn't true. how many people in this hall regard yourselves as a firm tea party last -- firm tea partyist? is that less than a majority? you tell me. >> less than a majority that have hands up. there are more going up. >> i'm glad to hear that. if everybody in this room had raised his or her hand saying un

as well as cbs news state department correspondent margaret brennan. when you left, we're going to give you time to go back and get on the phone see if you can sort this out. have you found out anything more? >> they're trying to figure this out at the white house and here in washington right now. what we heard earlier today from the russian foreign ministry that there is now this broader conversation about finding diplomatic solution through constitutional reform. that is different from what the message sent very clearly by the kremlin at the same time which was, we're not changing our foreign policy. this referendum still happening in crimea today we're going to recognize the results of it. and basically putin saying we're not backing down. we'll continue to talk diplomatically what lavrov told kerry today, the secretary of state here. it looks like there is a broader conversation right now. but it doesn't look look there's an immediate halt in any way. >> schieffer: do you think it means the russians are buying time or something significant happenin

we'll have a report from margaret warner in eastern ukraine later in the program. in iraq, nearly 30 people died in a wave of violence today. most of the attacks targeted security forc north of baghdad. meanwhile west of the capital, a suicide bomber struck the funeral for a leader of an anti- al-qaeda militia. the government of turkas apparently failed in a bid to block access to twitter. tech savvy users found ways today to circumvent the effort. prime minister recep tayyip erdogan had called for banning the social media network. a turkish newspaper editor says it's because people have been tweeting links to recordings that implicate erdogan in corruption. >> ( translated ): because sound recordings and videos were spread through twitter, more precisely, since communication through twitter is vy strong, they see it as an enemy. erdogan said before: "there is an evil called twitter." yesterday it was closed hours after he said that he would close it. >> woodruff: the ban even sparked divions within the government as turkey's president abdullah gul tweeted his oppo

margaret what, is the administration saying to that request? >> reporter: well, president obama had a tense 90-minute-long call with russian president vladimir putin and told him step back. the u.s. considers russia's action to be a clear violation of international law, but no military response is being considered. the next step for the u.s. is to hold meetings at the u.n., at the nato military alliance, and with some european partners. the white house is also offering financial help to ukrainian leaders who are trying to keep the country from economic collapse. today, the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., samantha power, also asked for monitors to be sent to the region to make sure that the russian-speaking population there is being treated fairly because that's the basis russia is claiming for this so-called intervention. >> axelrod: so if the focus right now is on diplomacy and not military response as far as the u.s. goes, what are the options available? >> reporter: president obama consulted with his national security team today. at this point,

we will get to margaret carlson a moment. first, the latest from the ukraine. are the odds that putin goes into the ukraine? >> the odds are fairly good. all it takes is for somebody to say we need help. the old term was fraternal assistance. the intelligence assessment here is bleaker than what you're hearing in public. they still assess that putin sees this as a continuation of the cold war, a chance to reverse was started in 1991. >> our notion is to play nice, who doesn't like to play nice. >> he doesn't see the world the same way the folks in the west do. >> when you look at kiev, whatever happens there, the ukrainians need a lot of money. a lot of it is going to have to come from the imf. they impose conditions. isn't it likely to make a political situation even worse? >> there is one way to mitigate that a little bit. give them some money up front. they need $3.5 billion to get to the end of march. you could do that without those conditions. then, have the conditions tightened as time goes by. they get more money. you don't have to start out with hitting

[applause] margaret? >> it is great to be here with you. a real working man.pparently, the people i know have never really had a job where they work with their hands. i mean, i wouldn't know what to do. we don't have as much affinity with how hard it is. when i see a war on working people, which if you give the many benefits, they are basically lazy and will stop working. you give them unemployment benefits and they won't work because they don't want to. most of the people i know, including my brother who was laid off a year ago, they are dying to get jobs. they want to work. this is a leading question to you, but it really bothers me, the attitude that is now prevailing -- >> i thought you were going to give me a ruthlessly devilish question. >> i know. are you disappointed? >> it really is disappointing, because i see people every day trying -- struggling to try to get by, to send their kids to school, to keep a home. wages have been flat. here is the economic reality of this generation. productivity has doubled, and wages have stayed flat. that money has ac

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we will get to margaret carlson in a moment. first, the february jobs report.are joined by julianna goldman. unemployment went up a bit, but a lot of jobs were created. >> 175,000 jobs. better than expected. ease anxiety at about the weaker data from previous months. there might be a spring in the step of the jobs market right now. construction jobs are up. we do not have a discernible impact on the expiration of the unemployment benefit and that may take some of the steam out of the push to get them in place again. >> in the middle of everything this week, president obama released his budget, $3.9 trillion. that used to be a big deal. it almost didn't happen. it was the middle of the night. >> the tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear. did it happen? $3.9 trillion budget. the reason it didn't get much play because it is basically dead on arrival. it is a wish list of democratic priorities. the president took some of the entitlement reforms off the table and that is because in a midterm election year, the demographics, the voting age is skewed hig

going back to the time that margaret thatcher said gorbachev was somebody we could do business with. ronald reagan was able to cut some deals with them. gorbachev said we are going to have a relationship based on partnership. that continued from gorbachev into yeltsin. from reagan into bush 41 and into the early years of the obama administration. that era is now behind us. we now have overtly put a leader in the kremlin who does not believe the fundamentals of the u.s.-russian relationship and the relationship between russia and the west is one of partnership. he sees it as adversarial. it is a new ballgame. by going over what i think is the ultimate red line with regards to russia -- the border around russia and actually grabbing a piece of territory from an independent, sovereign state and pulling that into russia, he has created not just a new fact on the ground but a new danger which is that we have a russia that is going to make great russian nationalism and going back and getting a hold of a territory where there are a lot of russians. that is a very dangerous development. it i