mike viqueria is there to tell us more about what the president had to say. mike. >> john, the rhetoric had been escalating over the past two days. we heard again from secretary of state john kerry and he has spoken for a second consecutive day with sergey lavrov, warning about a russian incursion and sovereignty of ukraine. then we heard from jay carney, a warning of grave consequences if russia were to go into ukraine. then suddenly about 5:00 eastern time, president obama appeared in the briefing room and here's what he had to say. >> we are now deeply concerned by reports of military movements taken by the russian federation inside of ukraine. russia has a historic relationship with ukraine clul cultural and economic including cultural and economic ties. anything incursion would be deeply destabilizing which is not in the best interest of ukraine or europe. >> there would be a cost if russia been into ukraine. what would be the cost? military intervention on the part of nato or the united states, completely out of the question. what is the other? sanctions

mike viqueria is at the white house. when the secretary arrives what will be on his agenda and what can he expect? >> to get you up to date, a state department spokesperson said just moments ago sanctions are being considered by the united states in conjunction with its european aize, no decision he allies. -- economic hit, stock markets are going down. the value of the ruble is going down. and the soft power of 50 billion worth to burnish its reputation holding the winter olympics at sochi, that all being squandered in the eyes of many. secretary kerry will be traveling, a speech on u.s. israeli relations and petting on a plane to kiev. given all we are told that secretary kerry will perhaps in rome be meeting with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov. meeting with the descrailt prime minister, on any other -- the israeli prime minister. perhaps president obama will be asked. we can guarantee he will be asked about the situation in ukraine. whether he chooses to address it, is another matter. calls with european leader

mike viqueria joins us. mike, i can't imagine the senate won't sign on to this as well. but earlier the president spoke about what he called a path of deescalation in ukraine. break it down for us. >> right. the president secretary of state john kerry they have been talking about that for a while. on that house vote we might add it was an overwhelming majority. for all the partisan sniping, criticizing the president for allowing this to happen in the first place, we expect the stat to pick up a billion dollars of aid to be administered by the imf. two consecutive days between sergey lavrov, secretary of state john kerry haven't turned up any visible progress. it was felt the president should come out and convince the situation. let's hear what he has to say. >> let international monitors into all of ukraine including crimea to ensure the rights of all ukrainians are being respected including ethnic russians. begin consultations between the ukraine and russia. and russia would maintain its bases. and the world should support the people of ukraine as they move to elections

mike viqueria has a report. >> secretary of state john kerry still insists this is not the cold war all over again but evokes an earlier era. >> you don't in 20th century behave in 19th century fashion. and invade over prumpled u trump pretext. >> both kerry and president obama worked the phones sunday coordinating with allies. >> all of them, every single one of them are prepared to go to the hilt in order to isolate russia with respect to this invasion. >> on the table, economic sanctions. freezing assets of russian officials, isolation on trade and investment and a boycott of the annual summit of g-8 facings. there is talk of throwing russia out of the g-eight as well. trying to provide putin with what they describe as an off-ramp to calm russia of its stated fears. one option not on the table, military action by the west. we are trying to deescalate this says a senior official. stressing this is over economic options. some believe mr. obama should have seen it coming. >> putin is playing chess and i think we're playing marbles and i don't think it's even close. >> mike viqueria, al

. >> jennifer glasse, in s fehrople. , mike viqueria is at the white house covering that story mike. good you could hear the escalating alarm in secretary of state john kerry's voice. in jay carney's voice, the white house spokesman, they warned of a grave mistake if russia was to interfere in the sovereignty of ukraine. it all came about around 5:00 this afternoon, when president obama appeared in the briefing room, talked about costs to russia. what are those costs? john, i've spoken to a senior administration potential, they're talking about the g-8, it's in sochi, the site of the just concluded winter olympics. how to see how the g-8 participants, the europeans would join vladimir putin in g-8, looks like it will be cancelled if events continue the way they are now. they're also talking and pointing us to the fact that the rubel appears to be losing value at this point. consequences, in the real world are already taking place. president obama had harsh words, a beef statement but part of what he had to -- brief statement but part of what he had to say: >> we are concerned about m

harry reid says he wants to europeans on board first. >> mike viqueria at the white house. let's look at possible economic sanctions. russia is tied to europe through appliance that carry national gas. what happens if the critical supply is cut off? ali velshi has that story. >> the peurch gets hal -- europn gets half of its natural gas supplies from russia. if the cost of german factory output increases because of a sustained increase in natural gas prices or production were to fall because of a shortage, that would rock europe, and ripple across the globe. disruption to russian gas supplies could happen in one of two ways. russia could shut off supplies preemptively in response to the threat of sanctions or russia could step things up mill tailor, sending troops into eastern ukraine which is part of the natural gas train to europe. >> effected isn't really on the transit route . however the east of core ukraina lot of russian speakers there, fireworks in terms of energy prices in terms terms of energy prices in europe. >> europe depends on the infrastructure, tried to div

mike viqueria is at the white house for us and what more did the president say about the crisis in ukraine today? >> reporter: tony, the president says there are two paths that they can take, they can continue on this path which the president says is a violation of ukraine's territorial integrity. over time the president says this will be a costly proposition. the president says the other path is that vladimir putin could take what he terms the off-ramps, in other words allow international monitors, this is the proposal that's on the table right now from the u.n. or the osce to go into the crimea and what vladimir putin is concerned about that's the protection of ethnic russians and russian speakers in the crimea. today the prime minister of israel is here, benjamin netanyahu, on any other day that would be dominating the news but today, during photo op, the president was asked about the situation in ukraine and he spoke extensively. this is part of what he had to say. >> what cannot be done is for russia with impunity to put its soldiers ton ground, and -- on the ground and to violate bas

our mike viqueria is at the white house with more on that. mike what happened at this meeting today? >> well, john it has been an afternoon of heavy symbolism and bold words. but the question is at the end of the day will any of this have any effect on russia and its occupation of crimea? >> thank you mr. president. >> it was a show of solidarity. president obama hosting creung's beleaguered interim prime minister arseniy, yatsenyuk. >> he thinks the u.s. and its allies are obligated to help make it happen. >> we fight for our freedom. we fight for for our independence we fight for our sovereignty and we will never surrender. >> both men rejected the upcoming crimea referendum, whether to stay with ukraine or become part of russia. >> we completely reject a referendum patched together in a few weeks with russian military personnel basically taking over crimea. >> reporter: two days after his spokes woman declared he would not meet with his russian counterpart without concrete steps for a russian reversal. a reversal on this side, secretary of

white house correspondent mike viqueria. >> they called a principals meeting, all the top officials in the west wing just over my right shoulder here. this is the president's he said all the assurances he gave lacked conviction. >>> when the president sat down with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu today, it was the dleun had the world -- the ukraine that had the world's attention. >> to put its soldiers on the ground and violate basic principles that are recognized around the world. >> reporter: it has suddenly become an urgent and high stakes test for mr. obama. the administration has been playing catchup in ukraine since the crisis began. when unidentified soldiers aligned with russia were taking up space in crimea, the united states warned not to invade. >> there will be costs for any military intervention in ukraine. >> that warning was ignored. the administration was caught flatfooted. critics in here and elsewhere, undermining u.s. power abroad. >> every time the president goes on national television and threatens putin or anyone like putin, everyone's eyes roll, includi

white house correspondent mike viqueria has the story. >> a long scheduled nuclear summit has come to be dominated by the crisis in ukraine. with the famed rembrandt work "the night watch" behind him. >> we're united in imposing a cost on russia. >> but that's become a tough goal of this trip. russia has been thrown out for now from the group of the powerful nations known as the g8. mr. obama called a meeting of the seven remaining, a clear warning to russia there will be a heavy economic price to pay if it goes further into crimea and eastern ukraine. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov showed little concern. >> we are not clinging to that group. >> in a positive sign sat down with ukraine's interim foreign minister after weeks of refusing to meet insisting the kiev government was illegitimate. mr. obama has several meetings, over the next few days, sitting down with chinese leader shin ji pang. ukraine has and will continue to dominate the agenda aas the allies come together to curb future aggression. >> that's the message we want to send with eu and 48th oh at the end of the nex

mike viqueria, riyad, saudi arabia. >>> can washington has lost touch with the middle east. >> this is a relationship that's damaged, this is a relationship that's really been weathered. and i think it is in critical phase, it is in a real turning point. the arab spring pushed this forward. the wawr i war in syria last exacerbated this. they are really worried about the deal that the u.s. quill cut with iran and what this will do with the saudis. >> credit. >> i think that the united states is in a position in the middle east right now where they've lost their focus. i really don't think they know what the policy is right now. and i think it's really coming home to us now, that the arab spring was these comments are camg the state department off guard and the saudis are worried. they are asking what is your focus, is it stability or is it democracy. >> the president has also come under pressure to take a stand on saudi arabia's human rights record. why roxann saberi reports. >> credit in a place where the arab spring never really materialized. the government discourages dissent by dirk

mike viqueria, al jazeera, the white house. >>> right now search crews in the southern indian ocean arerting their third day trying to find evidence of the plane. there's been no luck finding anything throirchgd this missing plane. -- anything linked to this missing plane. alan deihl, the author of air safety investigators, using science to save lives, one crash at a time. mr. diehl, thank you very much very much for your time. transcripts of the pilot's communications with the ground has now been published. you've had a chance to look at some of that. what stands out to you if anything? >> well, first of all, we really don't know if these are actually the transcripts. i believe they probably are. about the only thing we can tell from the transcripts -- >> let me stop you there. let me stop through. why are you -- >> sure. >> why do you say that we don't know that? >> well, the malasians have not confirmed at least that i know that these are actually the transcripts and the time line is right and so on. i believe they're probably accurate. but so i'd like to know for sure. i'd like the

our white house correspondent mike viqueria have more from washington, d.c. >> the president, the administration quick to respond after that referendum in crimea yesterday, a referendum they say they will not be recognizing ever, says president obama. he appeared in the briefing room here in the white house on very short notice stressing international unity, and a second executive order. you recall it was about two weeks ago on march 6th when the president first announced the executive order. he wanted to hold this out as a threat if the russians continued on a threat it started on, ever since it began. russia showing no signs of turning back. the president announcing naming names, four russians, three creuns instrumentaukrainians, td more to say about this situation. >> there is still a path to resolve the situation diplomatically. russia pulling its forces back to their bases, supporting the international monitors in ukraine and engaging in dialogue with the ukrainian government. >> and the president stressing more credit sanctions, 11 individuals close to vladimir putin within russia, announc

. >> mike viqueria, thank you very much. now despite warnings from world leaders at the hague, all out of ukrainian bases. jennifer glasse, this order to withdraw is it essentially ukraine surrendering to russia? >> you know, we don't think it is ukraine surrendering to russia. ukraine has been steadfast that crimea remains part of ukraine. the troops here whose live were in danger and whose families are harassed. to get those sailors and their families out of crimea an into the peninsula. aa lot of those sailors were living on bases or boats that they have been thrown out of or in naval housing here. some of the families that i have spoken to are concerned. we have diplomatic movement for the first time, moscow talking to kiev, russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in the hague right now, we don't know what will come of that meeting but very clear he would demand that russian troops would leave crimea and hope to get crimea back, hopes to get international backing for that. very, very interesting meeting. the first diploma

mike viqueria is live in washington, d.c. mike. >> there was little to say for a day of diplomacy in paris. >>> martin dempsey related a message. >> underrably they are concerned. they seek our shun assurance for security. >> air space over three former soviet states now independent in the ba baltic. , and attend political fund raisers. this after the white house came under attack from republicans. in a sharp exchange with secretary of defense chuck hagel, john mccain accused the administration. >> well-known which is another massive failure because of our misreading, total misreading of the intentions of vladimir putin. >> senator, i said that we -- >> let me finish my statement, please, and that is that mr. putin was not going to see sevastopol go about. >> earlier last week we were well aware of the threats. we don't accept anything that presidential putin says as fact. >> says russia's move into crimea is a direct result. >> this president has eroded american credibility in the world. this is a moment when president obama

mike viqueria, can al jazeera, the white house. >> steerch fishstephen phish, f. >> crk thank you john. this looks like a lot like the way elections are conducted in russia. they have locked down public sphere, critical journalists were silenced, the media was shut down and people in crimea just got russian version of events. what's more, there was massive falsification in this referendum. it's completely implausible that 97% of people voting in crimea would vote putin's way. we know from years of public opinion polls the crimeans have much more nuanced views of their region's status than that. some would like to remain part of ukraine, some part of russia but there's been no evidence that 97% would like to join russia. >> but a majority maybe, yes? >> perhaps a majority, we'll never know, i mean, this is way putin does elections. rather than risking winning 55% or 60% of the vote he locks things down, secludes any beings opponents from participation. and gets his 95%-plus. so the truth is we really don't know. >> so do the sanctions -- are they going to make a difference or not? >> i

morphone has more o -- mike viqueria has more on their shared message. >> needing teaching shelterin sheltering -- needing, teaching, sheltering. >> i'm not hungry anymore, my mind frame changed, hopefully i can get a job and start working. >> the catholic church has a long history of working with the least of these, the poor. but it's the new pope francis, that has brought the church's focus back to its core mission. through his action he and his words. >> critical of the growing gap between the haves and the have nots. during president obama's time in office that gap between rich and poor in america has continued to grow. it's now the widest since 1928. it's an issue the president has turned into a central theme. >> the combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the american dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe. >> though they share a message, one, the poach is popular. seven of 10 catholics say they represent a major change in the church. the other, the president, is not. his approval ratings are at an all