what did we misread about m medvedev and putin? >> i would say two things.timated how autonomous he was and how the prime minister at the time, prime minister putin deliberately tried not to get involved in those things. even when we tried a couple of times to reach out to prime minister putin, he pushed back and said that's not my job. that's medvedev's job. we did misread, particularly the arab spring, their views. and also the protest that is erupted in september and throughout the year of 2012, i don't know how medvedev would have responded. i would put it even stronger, we never had an issue about democracy and human rights with medvedev in a dramatic way because those kinds of events had not yet happened yet. they happened on putin's watch. >> ambassador mcfaul, i have to leave it there. your final stint. you'll be coming home soon, get to watch a lot of stanford football. who knew that the football team now would be a little bit better than the basketball program yet the whole athletic program pretty impressive these day. >> hey, we're coming up in ba

have dmitry medvedev saying this poses a real threat, ukraine, toning in russian interests, what do you think that might mean in terms of moscow's reaction now? >> it's not surprising to see such strong language from moscow the centuries long andural, linguistic historical relationship between russia.nd they've been together for the years and the russians are signaling they are disturbed by what happened over the weekend. will face the ofntervailing influence britain and germany and france and poland and the united states the ukrainians to let their people decide at the elections and not be separated by an eastern russian half and western ukrainian half and to the integrity of that country but the russians are minded, ie very tough think, as they approach the issue of new government in keiv. risk ofu think there is some form of russian intervention in ukraine now, nick? i think we're at the very minimum, we'll see an attempt by to intimidate the new interim government in keiv. the natural gas supplies that power the everyian economy and ukrainian home. russia controls the black sea it t

the very first time he said that, april 2009 when he met with president medvedev. >> that imagery, kind of 18th century balance of politics where if it's two points for america, it's minus two for russia just doesn't work in the 21st century. it's an argument that we have proposed to the russians from the very beginning and i think if you look at the past five years on some issues, we've achieved what we'd like to call win/win outcomes. on others, we've had stalemates. but with respect to the ukraine, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. >> when you were at the white house as a national security council as somebody who focused on russia and i was a white house reporter, i remember talking to you, being briefed by you, you discussing ways that the relationship was making real progress, especially when medvedev was calling the shots to the degree that he was. but now you look at syria, the human rights issues, especially when it comes to gays and rights and when you look at edward snowden, do you think the u.s. is leading in the wrong direction? >> i leave this job more optimistic than i

prime minister dmitry medvedev, that russia will not work with the interim government. quot if you consider people that prowl kiev with black masks and kalashnikovs, a government, we will have difficulty working with such a government. the ukraine finance ministry sa it needs $35 billion in foreign assistance er the next two years. they call for a donors' conference involving the european union, the united states and imf. the white house ss the united states is ready to provide support. the white house also announced major cuts to the u.s. military. defense secretary chuck hagel from the pentagon, outlining a downsizing that will see our army shrink to pre-1940 levels along with across-the-board cuts to every single branch of the military rick acte and reserves and cutso military pay and entitlements. hagel including the emination of the air force's fleet of a-10 attack aircraft, and it is u-2 spyplanes. here is secretary hagel pointing to politics. >> reality of reduced resources and a challenging and changing strategic environment requires us to prioritize and make di

when medvedev spoke from this podium, he was also yeltsinesque, but he had no real power.in has a classic zero-sum, us versus them view of the world, and the them is us, if i can put it that way. i heard a story quite reliably that he was being briefed for a meeting of a visiting american official, and the briefer, a russian who work for putin, said that this person is a friend of ours. putin snapped and said "we have no friends in the west." that really says it all. later in the conversation we should come back to what the real threats to russia are, and there are many, and virtually none of them are in the west. >> you made a very interesting point. it underscores very much that no matter what structures we put in place, they are not going to be really adequate. so the attempt to create something broader on a more horizontal level to close the united states and russia in it together always founders of the person at the very top. >> the commission was going great. we had all kinds of quite productive collaboration between our cabinet agencies in washington and the ministr

prime minister dmitry medvedev, that russia will not work with the interim government. quote, if you consider people that prowl kiev with black masks and kalashnikovs, a government, we will have difficulty working with such a government. the ukraine finance ministry says it needs $35 billion in foreign assistance over the next two years. they call for a donors' conference involving the european union, the united states and imf. the white house says the united states is ready to provide support. the white house also announced major cuts to the u.s. military. defense secretary chuck hagel from the pentagon, outlining a downsizing that will see our army shrink to pre-1940 levels along with across-the-board cuts to every single branch of the military rick active and reserves and cuts to military pay and entitlements. hagel including the elimination of the air force's fleet of a-10 attack aircraft, and it is u-2 spyplanes. here is secretary hagel pointing to politics. >> reality of reduced resources and a challenging and changing strategic environment requires us to prioriti

we saw that in medvedev's statements. obviously the world community needs to convince the russian s this cannot be a repeat of decades past when they used military force, they need to respect decisions maeld by ukrainians and allow these elections to go forward peacefully. >> just a quick point on putin. we saw images of him enjoying the olympics but there's certainly another side which you raise. a lot of people see him as the architect of the government crackdown that occurred in ukraine. >> i think that's reasonable to assume that the russian government was advising president yanukovych, the departed president to use force against the demonstrators. you see this vit tree olic hateful language from moscow describing people in streets of kiev, likening them to nazis. it's completely inaccurate but does give an indication that russia is going to play for keeps here. i think again very smart of the obama administration to put this on a political level and stress the need for peaceful change not for the use of military forc

they say that it is not legitimate, as a matter of fact, the russian prime minister, dimitri medvedev, had this to say: >> translator: those agreements that are of a binding responsibility character will be fulfilled. we are neighbors, close nations and we cannot voy each other. everything that has been -- avoid each other. strictly speak egg we have no one to negotiate with. the whole array of the governmental actors that now function there raises big doubts. >> those are worrying words for government here. ukrainians were always concerned about russia's actions. they don't want russia meddling in their affairs. first of all that $15 billion bailout that came out in december that is tied to a national gas deal worth another $10 billion and of course in the sous russia's black sea fleet is in sebastopol, that is something that ukrainians have leveraged russia exercising its power over ukraine. >> the political uncertainty in kiev, political protesters stepping in. nick shifrin talked to sell of them about their roles. >> if you want to leave kiev in a hurry, you have to go through the

some extent that reset was also based on the personal ties between president obama and president medvedeveven if people understood that mr. putin who is prime minister was still the most important decision-maker, still the relationship is built on the compacts between those two younger presidents. when it became clear that mr. putin was going to come back to the kremlin and that coincided with a demonstration in the fall of 2011 against mr. putin and against the dumas elections that they said were falsified that was a breaking point because mr. putin blamed the united states are aiding and abetting. and since then i think the relationship has been a downward slide. this year of course we had the episode with mr. snowden so now we are at it point where we are working together and we have to work together in syria but where president obama himself has said we have to take pause and reconsider how we want this relationship to move forward. president obama as -- and mr. putin understands that. >> host: when we talk about democracy promotion one problem in my view at least is the russian gover

putin has been a masterful player and medvedev before him. for the past five years we have been asking. >> 48 hours from now the negotiations start with the nuclear program again. what do you expect? >> i expect iran will continue to breakthrough that it achieved in geneva last november. there was a thursday or friday "wall street journal" that the lifting of the sanctions have given a kick start to the icon me. all predictable. looking at both the negotiations on syria and iran, these are two sets of core obama administration policies that are failing badly and continue to fail. >> sitting down to vienna, look w457d what happened in tehran. death to obama. death to kerry. the reason they are chanting, death to sherman meaning sherman the chief negotiator and man oh, man. one of the protesters is quoted as saying death to the u.s. and it will be so forever no matter what the president agrees with. the americans. how do you deal with the regime that allows this while they are sitting down to get something done in vienna. >> this is a regime th

of yanukovich questioning the legitimacy of the interim leadership russian prime minister dimitri medvedev called the ousting and on the news today. ukraine's un ambassador here is the gay and who supports the country's opposition insists there was none too against ghana coverage the ambassador told a news conference that the asa breed of faith can secretly left his disease and to court and destroy themselves well that's as say what's the situation is like have fun on an amen on the spot them etc iraq and that the joys is from the capital kiev. i welcome runway so just to explain to a simple with just. the i've mentioned this in fact to the story at this particular hour i guess things are changing over time and that the heads of lettuce know exactly what's going on with the formation of a unity government. the deer when i got exhausted just listening to your list as far as but you know what's happening a lot more actually happening here on the ground quite a complicated situation because there is this tug of war of what needs to happen and what people want to see happening but we know she'

moscow's prime minister dimitri medvedev said ukraine's internal authorities are the result of our unity. in response the ukrainian the united nations held a press conference in new york and said the change in government was carried out through constitutional means they get these big groan the former speaker of parliament who resigned at the bottom and bipolar inconclusive to two majority connected to a speaker from the position. i'm excited to chino. with eyes that assertion that in ukraine there was a coup. he is the least. upson. law enforcement authorities in ukraine are still searching for ousted president gannett co bench after an award for his arrest was issued on monday over charges of killing eighty two people mainly peaceful protesters in the meantime ukraine's central election commission has already begun its campaign for a snap presidential elections on the twenty fifth. all the audio in it when our table again what else is making headlines around the world with their uni and standing by at the new center the answer what is making headlines. hi guys as that was fine as critic

here you have two leaders, russia, president medvedev and president obama who actually forged a personal relationship. and that empowered everybody else. you could feel it all the way down through the national security advisor chain, the state department chain, the defense department. and you could feel that even though there were differences that we were going to be able to sit down and work together. it was a good moment. and that moment has passed, unfortunately, at least it appears that way. mr. putin is obviously very interested in a different russia, vis-a-vis the europeans and vis-a-vis us. >> and russian influence in the middle east, he's interested in. >> exactly, exactly. so if we're getting back to the time or even remotely to the time when we say up they say down and we say -- >> they say west. >> exactly. that's not good. it's not good for russia and i don't think it's certainly good for many of us who have worked for really hard and very long towards bringing together a path that is away from the cold war. >> resetting the relationship. let me turn to energy. where are we y

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point where we were continuing to encourage the openness that putin was putting into place with medvedevbut what they're getting now is the real russian experience. they were never going to get the accommodations that a salt lake city or a vancouver could provide. >> you know why? there is so much corruption in russia still. all the way up and down the line. >> billions that putin got, and how much the toilet paper cost. >> say it in a nice way. >> "one more thing" is up next. >>> hi, there. time now for "one more thing." i saw that yawn, dana. i caught her. let's get a little party. a little party in your pocket. >> what? >> i don't know. >> i don't know. >> the seattle seahawks -- >> party in your pocket. >> maybe that's just you. take a look at the parade today. the seattle seahawks enjoying the taste of victory. and if there's anything we know from the west coast is that the seahawks fans are loud. they like to express themselves, and you had people coming from all over. some of them from like 1,400 miles away to share their jubilation in what really was just a tremendous game by the

that situation improved when obama came into power and he showed president medvedev evidence of a secret enrichment facility in iran, and russia didn't agreed with the u.s. to tougher sanctions against iran and the u.n. security council. but russia has still always claimed that there's no evidence that iran is time to develop a nuclear weapons capability, and i think some cynics have said russia would mind if the u.s.-israeli attack on iran because oil prices would go up and this would be good for russia. i don't believe that. there maybe some people think they. i think the russian government doesn't want to see a military attack on iran because again that would have repercussions in russia's own neighborhood in the north caucasus. it would fuel islamist sentiment. it would cause unrest and a great deal of unrest in the neighborhood. i think right now the u.s. and russia are outlined because at the moment we have what looks like a relatively promising agreement between the p5+1 powers, the u.n. security council, the germans, the iranians to walk back on the enrichment facilities and for

yesterday we saw his prime minister medvedev saying that the government -- the ukraine government had to get tougher with the opposition because otherwise they would be made to door look a door mat. clearly moscow was egging them on. >> i don't think this agreement would have happened without the support of russia. the bottom line is this, this is not and does not need to be a zero sum game between russia and europe and the united states. the fact of the matter is russia has deep ties to ukraine, the ukrainian people have real aspirations to be more closely joined to europe. these things are not incompatible. russia has a stake in deep vemts there and exports there. if ukraine is not doing well, russia won't do well. the stability that comes with this agreement and the stability that comes from closer integration is in russia's interest and hopefully the russians will see it. >> the parliament voted to lower the charges that jailed two years the chief rival, political rival of the president. is her release from jail part of this agreement? >> it's not part of the agreement. it's a sep

chosen to be very much involved in this, including this most recent statement by prime minister medvedevsians are going to withhold assistance. so, clearly, this speaks to the need for very much of a direct dialogue between the united states and russia which does kind of harken back to a previous era. but, clearly, there's got to be some better patterns of cooperation or at a minimum, patterns of communication between the u.s. and russia. you know, we started out last summer with a kind of renewed effort on the issue of syria, and that's clearly fallen apart, as the talks last week in geneva would suggest. so we're really having some troubles reaching some understanding with the russians. you know, there's no senior american representative at the opening of the sochi olympics. i mean, a lot of things have kind of gone off the rails. but, you know, in fairness to our administration, you know, we are dealing with a putin-led russia that is a very difficult entity, much more so than a yeltsin-led russia was 20 years ago. >> ambassador, let me ask you, just to play devil's advocate, did we g

what i think president obama needs to do is not to ask biden to call medvedev, no influence on the russian authority, no real influence n my view president obama has to talk to putin, perhaps to arrange an emergency summit with putin, and to talk about a comprehensive solution for crimea and you crane. the time to do it is now. >> brown: dimitri simes, and angela stent, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: now, we take you to a place that garnered headlines around the world three years ago, but has hardly been seen since, because it's so dangerous. newshour science correspondent miles o'brien is our guide. >> reporter: three years after the meltdowns, the road to fukushima is still a gauntlet of roadblocks and strict security checks. and inside the exclusion zone, it remains a post apocalyptic landscape of abandoned towns, frozen in time. we were on our way to one of the most hazardous places on earth, the fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant. the tokyo electric power company, tepco granted the newshour permission for a rare tour inside the plant where three nuclear react

today russian prime minister dimitri medvedev told reporters the legitimacy of a whole number of organs of power that function there raises great doubts. "some of our foreign western partners think otherwise. this is some kind of aberration of perception when people call legitimate what is essentially the result of an armed mutiny. we do not understand what is going on there. there is a real threat to our interests and to the lives of our citizens." joining me now are steve clemens, washington editor at large for "the atlantic" and an msnbc contributor and adrian karatnitsky, a senior fellow at the atlantic council. adrian is also a managing partner for the mirandum group, which advises companies looking to enter the ukraine. steve clemens, a lot has happened since we last met on this subject. very fast-moving situation. where do you think it stands now, and can this government that's kind of holding on at the moment continue to hold on with the speaker of the parliament basically in charge? >> well, it's highly fragile. there's no one that can watch the events of really the last 48 hou

of course, when he told medvedev to convey to putin that he'd have more flexibility in his second term he might have been referring to, but clearly putin is giving president obama less flexibility when it comes to how to deal with these moves that he's making. >> well, that's really the problem, jake. the only u.s. move is diplomacy and presidential muscle power, which were about to see about the power of the oval office. there is no talk about any type of u.s. military action. nato military action. but i have to tell you, underscoring what jim sciutto said, the anxiety at the pentagon certainly rising throughout the day. the anxiety across the administration. and here's the reason. putin has engaged in an interesting military tactic. he has not given the u.s. any warning time. >> barbara, we're going to go live to samantha powers speaking live. >> government efforts with appropriate international assistance to bring bought economic recovery and new hope for the future. thank you. and i'd be happy to take a couple of questions. >> so who should be involved in this international media n

we've only heard from his prime minister, dmitry medvedev, not really the main player when it comes to. with putin being at the winter games the last few weeks, just left recently, but we haven't heard a beg, overarching statement on this remarkable crisis for him and his sphere of influence in this part of the world. today in kiev arrived u.s. deputy secretary of state william burns with some officials from the u.s. treasury. they're here to obviously provide political support initially but to talk through the complex, messy task of whether the billions of dollars that ukraine needs right now to keep its economy and government afloat, where does that come from? it was going to come from russia, but they had political demands upon ukraine that led to the protest behind me. now the eu are asked to supply that, but they are being cautious. they want to see the imf involved and set various terms to make sure the money, in their eyes, is spent correctly, but $35 billion is the figure the government said they wanted yesterday, and they also said the country is bankrupt, that the coffers are

whoever was in power he says in brussels just a few weeks killing my friend amy t at medvedev said today demetrius herself to send an e we need our partners to be in good shape and ukrainian government speeches has infected the current just use the content iraqi people qantas will roll over. i do believe that that should the position of victory and a curving scum to be seen as untenable moscow when in fact not look beyond him and not that i let him go. just this last agony she says health is moscow in its support of victory and a codex brussels has never said that ukraine should study what would cut da isn't that simple why. if you will have all the statements from russian if the show also from the russian foreign minister when ellis said. in all one of them said that to grace and speed. this is it that the show as the snow was cool that ukraine should stay debut when you fight country with a digicam and almonds and if we talk so called interference. they interference from the european union was much greater than the fifty s from all school of law school just want ukrainian government wa

prime minister dmitry medvedev urged ukraine to be tougher, in his word, quote, so people don't wipeke a doormat, end quote. it's all unfolding in one of the europe's most beautiful places. the front page of today's "the wall street journal" tells the tale of two cities. it's kiev before and after the clashes began which is tragic. joe? >> andrea, we still have having a hard time trying to figure out how to deal with vladimir putin. george w. bush famously said he looked into his eyes and could see his soul. this president has been, in some people's opinion, a bit passive. i want to read you a "the wall street journal" piece from walter meade and you probably heard some diplomats say the same thing. mr. putin is a master of the west a game he doesn't want to play and won game after game with weak cards. as long as the west beguiled by dreams of win/win solutions fails to grapple effectively in the muddy sum world of classic geo politics, mr. putin and his fellow revisionist in beijing and tehran will wreak havoc with western designs. >>> classic geo politics, mr. putin and his fellow

putin and medvedev have raised this many times. the only argument that i have heard is that it is expensive. yes, it's expensive, but you know why. something that they never cared to look into, but for us it is not just where a lot of visitors are welcome. for us, the olympics is pretty unique an opportunity to encourage investment into the region that have been fantastically attractive in terms of its geographics and its climate environment but didn't see a lot of investment. russia does not ensure too many areas within its own territory with access. sochi 700 kilometers. that's about it. because in the soviet union it was much larger and included georgia. we wanted russians to have a chance to go to enjoy sports and see within the parameters of its own country. we also want the russian olympic national teams to have a training ground that sometimes also is not available. it's not a secret that sometimes a sportsman would go to austria or elsewhere to train for competition. secondly, i would say that the olympics is going to be a

let's not forget, dmitri medvedev, who had been the prime minister, who had been the president beforerest in its citizens in the ukraine are under threat. this is the same kind of language that we saw in their statements that justify their invasion of georgia in 2008. i think that is why everyone is so worried about a possible military invasion at this point. much.nk you so in dear a lot of anon, bloomberg news and u.s. diplomacy. >> our guest host for the hour is bob nardelli, from home depot, chrysler, spending years at general electric. of have dealt with the rest the russian government before, especially when you brought those gas problems to market. >> we acquired a company in florence, italy, and we were deeply involved in putting the gas prawn on. it was a very favorable experience for us, working with the russians to get that technology in place. >> certainly something that business leaders will be watching carefully. >> they are the middleman, with oil and gas flowing out of russia and into europe, those pipelines supply about one quarter of the national gas for the europeans

that reset was very much driven by the personal relationships between president obama and president medvedev. they seems to have gotten on really quite well. even though everyone understood that in this interesting tandem arrangement, then-prime minister putin was making the decisions, it was still the fact that the 2 presidents could relate to each other that made them able to drive forward a fairly complicated agenda. things started to go sour when president putin -- prime ,inister putin announced, sorry that the 2 were going to switch places and he was going to come back to the kremlin, and then you have demonstrations in december 2011, you had mr. putin blaming secretary clinton for paying demonstrators to go into the street, and after that, the relationship went south. if you look at the picture on the cover of the book, you see big 2 presidents a g 20 summit in 2012 sort of about two shake hands but neither of them very happy about that. i think just a couple more points and then we obviously want to open it to discussion. we have a very different -- the russians and the americans, the

that reset was very much driven by the personal relationships between president obama and president medvedev. they seems to have gotten on really quite well. even though everyone understood that in this interesting tandem arrangement, then-prime minister putin was making the decisions, it was still the fact that the 2 presidents could relate to each other that made them able to drive forward a fairly complicated agenda. things started to go sour when president putin -- prime ,inister putin announced, sorry that the 2 were going to switch places and he was going to come back to the kremlin, and then you have demonstrations in december 2011, you had mr. putin blaming secretary clinton for paying demonstrators to go into the street, and after that, the relationship went south. if you look at the picture on the cover of the book, you see big 2 presidents a g 20 summit in 2012 sort of about two shake hands but neither of them very happy about that. i think just a couple more points and then we obviously want to open it to discussion. we have a very different -- the russians and the americans, the

the russians medvedev made it clear that everyone said we have a new government here. they see the elected leader of the country. he fled because of the tradition of politics. as soon as you push anybody aside, get them arrest and throw them in jail. he avoided that. did he flee? yes. he is more vital to the russian interest and everything else standing the way he is from the press conference. he said tomorrow. from inside russia. >> she still the legitimate leader of ukraine. we discussed a lot over the last few days. the type of war that ukraine has this proxy battle. it's also economic. you cannot forget how terrible the situation is. we will provide help for you about how you get those in the country with money and pledges of the systems. >> i am waiting to see. $19 billion is the magic number. they can get that kind of money. >> $35 billion. you say 19? corruption is a fine tradition. it's not only jan cove itch and his party, but all of the ole garbings. this country is steeped in tradition. this is the same government we had under the soviet union. not just the

. >> the decree was signed by vm medvedev on the tenth of february a few days after the start of the olympics and published on the government site on the 13th of february. it states that no longer will people who are officially part of a same-sex marriage be allowed to come to russia to adopt church nor will single people be able to do so if they come from countries where gay marriage is officially recognized. the idea has been discussed before and increasingly suggested as increasing numbers of countries have signed on to the idea of recognizing gay marriage. some of those countries, particularly the european ones like france and spain, are among those with the highest rates of adoption when it comes to russian children. and idea of restricting single people from adoption who come from these countries that recognize gay marriage, that is an attempt to prevent a situation where a man or woman could come to russia, adon't a child, return to their homeland with the child and later, down the track, enter a same-sex relationship. russian authorities have complained about this happening b

a complete reversal of what has been left of a thaw under president medvedev and even more sharp turn to more hard-line policies under putin. so it's a very important moment and terms of the hard-line but be on the post's joel on model clamping down and rolling back of democracy in russia. okay to the threat. about six or seven months ago i wrote a paper for the jewish forecasting corp. on the jewish thread and underlined six features that i thought were important. first and i'm talking about potential perpetrators within the caucasus and the mujahideen, with potential attacks. first is his suicide bombings run by the dock is donnie network the so-called dock is done the left which could be locals are ethnic russians to islam which the dagestan specialize in recruiting for suicide bombings. attacks perpetrated by a foreign group independently with the mujahideen, a possible chemical attack involving groups in the caucuses some have -- you have returned from syria and may have acquired chemical weapons and there were two attempts inside of russia that appear to be focused on perhaps ta

russian news agencies quoted dmitri medvedev as saying the ukraine's new authorities have come to powers a result of, in his words, "armed mutiny," so their legitimacy is causing big doubts. an arrest warrant has been put out for ukraine president viktor anukovych, who has fled to the black sea peninsula of crimea. president obama it is looking for allies among the america -- among american governments -- among american governors. this follows a dinner last night in which he said cooperation was vital to do right by the american people. we will learn more about his meeting with the governors today when he joins the vice president and addresses the press. c-span covers that event. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> if the deal is completed, i think it puts comcast at the nexus, the center of every major media policy debate we are going to have. i don't see -- i think the fcc should block this merger and i think it is why we have antitrust mergers. for most americans, an idea like this seems unthinkable that it has gotten this far. that it is being debated really s