nick kristoff writes this.or decades ukrainians have been starved, depressed, and bullied by russians and with russia now citing instability, plenty of brave ukrainians here are saying they've had it and are ready to go bear hunting if they could equip themselves. i do think the white house can do more. when ukrainians ask me what i think, i tell them i admire their spirit but that courage is sadly no match for a tank. they disagree. when we're fighting against the police, we had just wooden sticks. we can manage against russia as well. these people don't have much, but they have heart. we should do more to back them up. . >> and again, that's what your father's saying. you know, people saying, again, more people on this show coming on saying we shouldn't do anything to provoke putin. he may act badly. i'm sorry. you can see where this is going. he goes into crimea, now the march is moving westward every day. steve radnor, this is a man who sees it is russia's right. it's sort of manifest destiny to take back u

nick kristoff saying the president better not let ukrainian down, the ukrainians will never forgive ust obama. is that fair? >> a lot of it is. what's missing is the degree of urgency and intensity. where is pushing exports of oil and gas helping americans visit their own shale industry. that part seems to not be in play. why not push ahead with more sanctions? why sanction just the 17th largest financial institution. why not 1 through 16. >> so why would we target number 16 instead of number one through three or one through five? what's going on? >> the idea was to keep this measured. >> i mean, the guy is moving eastward toward kiev. how mesh-yard does barack obama want to be? >> i think what the russians are doing is what i would call intervention without invasion. what we're trying to do is keep some of our powder dry. the think the administration is potentially getting it wrong or seems to be getting it wrong, not using enough soon enough, simply being too cautious. we have to play more of our cards now. >> nick kristoff had a piece in the "new york times" which crystallizes the w