not of 21st. >> critics of putin, beware.utin of corruption and wound up spending ten years in prison and labor camps. alexander litvinenko accused state security services of organizing a coup to put putin in power. he was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium. and viktor yushchenko the former ukrainian president poisoned, disfigured, and nearly killed by a toxic dose of dioxin. i'm not saying official russian bodies had anything to do with it, but it's mighty suspicious. >> i don't think you need to be a conspiracy theorist to say whoever did this very much wanted everyone to know who done it. >> everybody understands. >> of course. >> everybody is meant to understand. >> yeah, everybody understands. everybody understands everything in this country. >> when you're talking classic conspiracy theories and classically russian-style paranoia, you want some classic russian food to go along with it. pelmini, minced meat dumplings served on a pillow of cabbage with sour cream. >> mmm. it's very good. maybe the most extr

vladimir putin speaks german.he two leaders are said to have a good working relationship and have spoken frequently during the ukraine crisis. ukraine was on the agenda again friday as they met for an hour-long private conversation on the sidelines of the d-day ceremonies in france. merkel was also on hand for a 15-minute encounter between putin and poroshenko, the newly elected president of the ukraine . many hoped this could be a turning point after months of tensions. a short time later, u.s. president barack obama and putin spoke briefly ahead of a state dinner hosted by the french president. it was their first face-to-face meeting since the ukraine crisis started. hollande welcomed putin with military honors thursday, but that did not hide the tensions between moscow and western capitals. british prime minister david cameron seized the opportunity to clearly express his government's views of russian policies. >> the status quo, the situation today is not acceptable, and it needs to change. we need russians to

it is now productions -- putin's position. petition athave any all. >> what worries me is that even the third reich is something that was inconceivable in russia and so maybe three or five years ago, only people like alexander dugan and other whoalent ideologist articulating the idea of eurasian empire were in the 1980's members of secret probe azi see -- pro-not societies. are you concerned the term is spanish rating from the very margins of the russian political march were people raising their arms? >> lets me explain here. believe and i'm concerned about the fascist threats in russia. a trend for ad as time. even without all the public speeches. constituents your back in the rural ages, you these which have been oppressed close those that have been associated. they are building democracy in russia. >> is that their propaganda? or are you saying mistakes were made? likes mistakes were made. it is actually programmed that there was no business in the country and that those actually exists. the opposition is highly more compet

and putin had a meeting with petro poroshenko. a meeting that putin's spokesman said, a positive step, a very humble one but it is positive. let's go to the u.s. military cemetery near omaha beach, the scene of d day's bloodiest battle. mike viqueria is there. mike it must have been a tremendously emotional day. let's talk about this meeting between president obama and president putin. we have seen video of them ton sidelines. how did this happen? we layered that president obama all but ignored putin at various times earlier in the day. >> there was one photo earlier in the day, family photos, one family that was very dysfunctional. it was evident obama and putin weren't paying attention to one another. it was seemingly intentional. a vine from the host french government, six or seven clip of, looped clip of video of president obama and vladimir putin and it really was they call it a pull-aside, standing up against the wall and starting a discussion obviously very informal, obviously no formal agenda there. this comes after weeks

we have to feed putin. if not, that would be rude. >> yes. >> and i want to the turn to bowe bergdahl, because was the politics of this have gotten away from the white house, and you are an astute prague mat cal guy who studies this for a living and i want to ask you this, talking to the republicans, with one thing they have been using against the president and can't do large scale immigration reform is that we have a trust issue within the conference, and talking to the gop aides yesterday, and they say, my god, the president has played right into our hands and we had no tangible example of us not thrown to the trust the president, and thrown out as a talking point, but it has played into our hand, and how did the politics of bergdahl get away from them so quickly? >> look, we are in day six here, and i think that we now have sort of, and i have always believed that the entire thing was about the five taliban members that they decided to release and the entire thing is about gitmo, and now looking back, yo

>> this is train, it is called the putin express. it is taking about 500 children that are parting on the platform down to odessa and that is 20 hours from here and paid by the kremlin and putin. he's saying getting the people through the front lines and to safety. some are being taken through the border to russia, and they are being take ton the coast of the black sea. they have their own problems, but nothing like they are facing here in the city and the air raids are going off and extraordinary tense here and most people are getting out and as soon as they can with babes in arms, teenagers, young children, they are all crowding on to the train that about to set off. >> out guns, out numbered and overwhelmed, the scene of the setback. they are taking everything they have left behind. not just ammunition but the body armor and the night vision equipment. even the fuel left in the tank of a burned out tank is taken out. this is not just a humiliating defeat for kiev, but no longer have ears or eyes on the border. in the communication

he doesn't want anything good to happen to putin. but putin is cleaning up in china and selling all of this stuff to the french. >> those two ships, they have a real stake in that. >> predictions, pat. >> scotland will vote to succeed from england this year. >> eleanor. >> scotland will not vote to succeed england this year. >> really? >> will settle up on the money afterwards, pat. >> i think scotland will vote. >> is that your prediction? scotland? >> what was your original prediction? >> it was less interesting than scotland. >> okay. mort. >> if he wears his kilt on the set, i promise to do whatever it takes to get them off the kilt. >> president obama's plans to close guantanamo before the end of the second term will suffer a fatal setback because of his unilateral action in releasing the taliban prisoners without congressional consent. this week, president obama and other members paid tribute to the soldiers who took part in the invasion of normandy who began the liberation of europe. we join in that salute to those valiant arm

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i call it the putin alliance. isn't it interesting that president putin is getting applause, not only as everybody would expect, from the far left in germany, the post communist party. they travel to moscow as they have done all the time and say thank you for being seen in the kremlin. but lupin and others decided to look at vladimir putin as their hero because he is such a wonderful defender of nationalism. of the nation state. what we have here is an interesting challenge, by as i see it, by president putin and those who support him or who admire him in western europe to the very fundamental idea of europe. creating something new, something better after centuries of strive and conflict. i think this is important but not because we are going to lose our ability to govern, but because there is a rather fundamental challenge here going on between putin and western europe. charlie is correct. he is a good observer of things going on in the public debate. the government has an 80% majority in the bunde stock. chancel

putin. it was two days before the actual vote was taking place in duma. it was a presidential address to the national assembly, to the lower chamber, to the state duma, and there was a big crowd of people, maybe 1,000 people all together because there were member of parliament plus governors and other invited guests, and everybody was just shouting and waving hands and praising putin. hailing chief. and saying let's take over crimea. me so s so -- reminded much of the soviet past and the negative past of the soviet. firstly i decided to seek friends, not stand up and not join the cheering crowd. secondly i decided i have to vote against. i didn't know whether i should just small take part in the vote or should i vote against. that time i was convinced i should vote against. this is emotional part. the rational part is that being of course patriot of russia, i he was thinking that this move to take over crimea is extremely unbeneficial for my country. what we ending up with? firstly, our brot

putin is the head of mr. kerry. putin called on russia's parliament to rescind this authorization of the use of military force in ukraine. putin's move came during a fragile cease fire declared by ukraine's new president, the chocolate olagark. on wednesday, president putin conferred by phone for more than one hour with french president, olan, and german chancellor, angela. the four leaders discussed the mechanism between prorussian accept sepratists. unless president putin takes steps to deescalate the situation, president putin may face further economic sanctions. >> also on friday, ukraine's president signed a long awaited trade deal with the european union. question, is this the light at the end of the tunnel? are we firmly on the path to a negotiated resolution of the ukraine crisis? guy taylor, in 25 words or less. >> i think we're at the beginning of the end of the tunnel, but the russians are still sending troops in the -- equipment into eastern ukraine and massing equipment on the border. 27 words. >> russi

we've heard a lot of criticism from hillary clinton towards vladimir putin, but putin firing back, takingthe substance of her remarks but partially based on her gender. >> reporter: russian president vladimir putin taking a jab at former secretary of state hillary clinton, saying it's bert not to argue with women, but miss clinton has never been too graceful in her statements. his sexist barbs come after criticism of clinton. in march she compared his tactics to the most reviled history in modern history. >> if this sounds familiar it's what hitler did in the '30s. >> reporter: she walked that comment back a bit but called putin this -- >> a tough guy with a thin skin. >> reporter: then this memorable description of putin in early april -- >> he will even, you know, throw an insult your way, he will look bored and dismissive, he'll do all of that, but i have a lot of experience with people acting like that, so it's not like, you know, it goes back to elementary school. >> reporter: late that month, she dinged putin as she slammed nsa leaker edward snowden to russia. >> i have a hard time

this as a putin making this with president putin being angry. it's just with him in that time and system. to know which pressures get ruvl results bought there is a cost as well. i think russia is vulnerable to a target of sanctions. last thing i will say isputecon say -- >> no, no, it's all good. >> that the foreign policy that president putin seems to be pursuing a turn away from russian to, with the west, security. it's something the clinton administration has been pursuing. he's turned away from it. has a foreign policy now defined, i think steve, you would agree, by negative opposition. with russia taking a new yeek staps to pull back. that said, you can't pull back difiantly. at the of the day, they can't stand possible in thie en roman causing the west to put the sanctions on them. >> i want to follow up about europe and a west. first, let me ask you, steve, is his option to make, pardon the phrase, a pivot to asia, can russia counterbalance his losses in europe by what we have seen recently about his negotiations in china? >> he can help

twice a year probably kissinger probably knows putin better than any american. political states were alive today. and who had been consulted by so many presidents and think what we might about kissinger's past but he has already declared his criticism of american policy toward russia that obama would want to spend an hour with him asking are we doing soaping role are we misperceive in this situation. to me that's the answer to your question and i think i don't know why it is some of obama's biographers make it is the nature it's astounding well we'll concede as i don't i don't know you know more of so nights conversations of great minds with stephen cohen right after the birth. of a. feeling particularly. feel very hard to deal. with that that would make their lives. you. feel. you feel you. feel a particular. i know c.n.n. the m.s.m. b.c. and fox news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think.

the annexation of crimea is country to international law if it were as mr putin. shared his different point of view with me comparing crimea to kosovo and i was telling him that this share they'll this comparison is unacceptable that was part of our substantive negotiation where we did not come. with mr putin but we did come to an agreement on many other issues energy need believe that this discussion has been useful not only for austria but also for resolving the relevant issues where you are. russia news network i also have a question for both presidents. and it concerns the south stream president has just said a lot about how important this project is for us three accounts at the same time we hear statements made by. u.s. politicians by certain u.s. politicians and. officials so i would like to ask you how viable do you believe a south stream to be as a project despite all this pressure against. you know we are engaged in negotiations with our partners with partners who are parties to contracts with. third party with our american counterparts are unhappy with.

putin believes that the relationship with the u.s. frozen, is not entering a new cold war, publicly he continues to say he's willing to work with the united states in solving differences on ukraine. >> phil black live for us in moscow. >>> in ukraine, the crackdown on pro russian separatists continues in the east of the country. the military says it's taking back one city that's fallen into rebel hands, but the fight is far from over. in kiev, preparations are being made for the new president to be sworn in on saturday. walk us through what's been happening in some of these separatist strong holds in the past 24 hours. >> reporter: since tuesday, the ukrainian armed forces have tried to recapture the territory around the separatist strong hold. the town itself and all these smaller towns around it, they have not made a substantial amount of progress, but there has been one victory. they recovered one town and there is a newly appointed man, a local man that comes under the auspices of the interior ministry. we were there yesterday. th

what vladimir putin is doing is he called it vladimir putinism, soft and hard authoritarianism. it's an effort to say we don't need western structures, or need the g7. we have large enough economies that we don't depend on you any more. it will be interesting to see if that turns out to be true. it was a statement by russia and china to push back. >> despite a dispute between the west and east. russia wants other diplomatic business with syria, including the looking over their toxic stockpile. >> it will be hard to go back to business as usual under these conditions. as long as ukraine remains resolved and there's no movement on ukraine beyond what i regard as a stempry tack it canal pull back of troops from the you -- temporary tactical pullback, it will be hard to make progress on other issues. i think it will be up in the air. progress is probably going to be on ice until ukraine is dealt with more squarely. >> do you agree? >> i do. i think this is a temporary pull-back, and the new president of ukraine will be meeting with obama. he has been aggressive militarily, and will

everyone was waiting for president putin and president putin to get together.pparently they did meet briefly according to the french president. i want to put up a picture, everyone had lunch. you can see the president sitting next to the queen of england. you can see president putin reading his program there. they certainly didn't talk at lunch. but at some time they did speak briefly. what do you suppose that was like, christiane? >> well, you know, they were seated frankly quite close to each other. a little bit of a tap dance situation going on. according to the pool, that picture you're showing, they talked after the lunch in an informal, before all coming here which is what's happening right now, coming to sword beach for the big celebration that is bound to be incredibly dramatic. i would say what went on in that conversation, if the president said what he was going to say in public yesterday, that he wants president putin to stop the flow of fighters and weapons into the eastern ukraine and to start proper talks and negotiations to authorize his top offi

twice a year probably kissinger probably knows putin better than any american. political statesman alive today. and who has been consulted by so many presidents and what we might about kissinger's past but he has already declared his criticism of american policy toward russia that obama would want to spend an hour with him asking are we doing something wrong or we misperceive in this situation. to me that's the answer to your question and i think i don't know why it is some of obama's biographer thank you it's his nature it's astounding well we'll continue this i don't know yeah war of science conversations of great minds with stephen cohen right after the break. we welcome aaron nate and mark to two or three posts on the r.t.d. network. who must say it's going to give you a different perspective give you one star never i'll give you the information you make the decision to me about how breaking the work of the mind it's a revolution of ideas and consciousness a frustrated with the system the i'm extremely probably would be described as angry i think i'm a stron

putin wants to be a super power.an argue in many ways he's trying to play western european leaders off of him a little bit. and they're playing along. this whole trip is interesting. think of it this way. for years, america's ties were always to western europe. and obviously the iron curtain blocked access to eastern europe. now look at it .today, it's the eastern europeans begging for security leadership. leadership particularly for security reasons, right? look at poland. they needed that speech that president obama gave where he started name checking. poland, you're not alone, li lithuan lithuania, you're not alone. astonia you're not alone. and the western leaders are going out of their way to court putin. they're saying look we have to go along with the united states on this because we count on them for security, but don't worry, we still want to be friends with you. don't think we're the ones that are leading this charge. it's that guy. i can't help this entire trip feels that way. everything is backwards, righ

the first with barack obama and then a second with vladimir putin.livia reports. >> a revolving door of foreign dignitaries for francois hollande. meets queen elizabeth ii, president obama, and vladimir putin within the space of a few hours. the british monarch will tend to d-day commemorations in normandy on friday, but first a before a private meeting with the french president. it was queen elizabeth's first trip to france in 10 years. francois hollande has a dinner with barack obama. they might be dining in an exclusive restaurant but diplomacy is at the top of the y'snda, with both countr foreign ministers in total. next, vladimir putin. focusing on international questions. the crisis in ukraine. this comes as g7 countries condemned russia for its continuing violation of the crane's sovereignty. they have threatened moscow with inviteds, putin was not to the meeting in brussels. both vladimir putman barack obama will attend a ceremony for the anniversary of the d-day landing on friday. it could fall to francois hollande to act as a go between as

equal treatment to vladimir putin as obama. the dinner with vladimir putin will be a light supper. others say that the restaurant, where the obama dinner takes place, is better than the food at the presidential palace where vladimir putin will le eating. >> you are making the point that it seems tireless, ambassador volker, these are two of the most powerful nations on earth. can't they figure out a way to talk. >> i think you made the point it is child ib and we ought to look at the real issues. russia is violating all the european norms built up, invading neighbours, occupying territory, annexing territory. the easy decision should have been to not invite vladimir putin, this is celebrating the d-day invasion. russia was not part of the d-day invasion. even though we chose to as a gesture to russia. it's been easy for the french to avoid a diplomatic mess, and do something more serious, sending a signal to russia saying "you're not invited this time." >>> vladimir putin seems to go out of his way to be insulting. calling hill

putin's a thug and putin's not one to back off too lightly. he wants to maintain unrest there.st. he wants them to do everything that he can to continue the unsettlement and he wants to maintain crimea and perhaps more of ukraine. >> be interesting to see how it plays out with the new leader there in ukraine in poroshenko. daniel, thank you so much for your time this afternoon. >> thanks for having me. >>> a fox news alert, walmart now issuing a statement moments ago from their president here in the u.s. and the ceo, bill simon, regarding one of its trucks, apparently involved in that crash on the new jersey turnpike that injured comedian and actor tracy morgan earlier this morning. let me read in part this quote here from the ceo saying that, this is a tragedy and we are profoundly sorry that one of our trucks was involved. we are working quickly to understand what happened and are cooperating fully with law enforcement to aid their investigation. safety is our absolute highest priority, but that is no comfort whatsoever to the families and friends who are suffering today. we

putin's made some better decisions.by the way, it would also be better for russia because the russian economy is not in good shape right now. we've seen significant capital flight just from the sanctions that we've already applied. that could easily worsen. and if we have sectoral sanctions, i think it will inevitably hit russia a lot worse than it hits europe, which have much more diversified and resilient economies. do i expect unanimity among the 28 eu members? i have now been president for 5 1/2 years. and i've learned a thing or two about the european union, the european commission, the european council. sometimes i get them mixed up. but -- >> welcome to the club. >> -- but the basic principle that if you've got 28 people sitting around a table, then not everybody's going to agree, i think we take that for granted. and i also think that if, in fact, we have to move to sectoral sanctions, it's important to take individual countries' sensitivities in mind and make sure that everybody is ponying up, that everybody is

you know, putin's interesting, and i think one of the ways to think about putin, and we saw this when he went into georgia in 2005 -- he's very -- he has a long-term strategic view. he believes in russian greatness. he believes that he has a historical role to restore russian greatness, not the soviet empire, but a russian empire, if you will, through this eurasian union that is contradistinction to europe and to the west and to china and asia. and i think he will go as far as he can in pursuing that agenda, depending on how much he succeeds and how much resistance he gets. when he went into georgia, we were concerned that today georgia, tomorrow the crimea, and the day after the baltic states. well, putin's two-thirds of the way there. and if he were to try against the baltic states, particularly latvia, for example, what he's doing against ukraine, and call into question the article 5 guarantee of nato, that is really an effort to split nato. and it's very interesting that he has been currying favor with the extremist parties in europe of both the right and the left that did so well

>> by working together. >> reporter: obama's last few meetings with putin have been ice cold and putin has managed to toss insults hillary clinton in an interview. on french tv. >> reporter: " it's better not to argue with women," putin said, calling mrs. clinton weak and oddly adding, "maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman." to keep obama and putin apart tonight, french president hollande had two separate dinners in paris. first with obama and then later with putin. that's right -- two diners but tomorrow an obama putin encounter is inevitable. senior white house officials telling me they don't expect any beyond a quick conversation. >>> diane was sitting down with hillary clinton with the exclusive interview. nothing off limits. but so many wonder erring if she will run from president. a rare and candid conversation about it all from benghazi to her relationship, her health and marriage and plan. she tells diane her own deadline. when we'll all know if she's running. the exclusive interview, diane sawyer, one on one, a view inside her life we have not seen before. monda

i think putin is looking much weaker. >> do you agree. >> somebody by the way who putin probably can do business with. you see what they said. all around. he is sending representative over the ambassador. they sort of said it, you know, through spokes people. no, you know, russia has become a terrible risk to people who want to invest whether they are foreign investors. here's the thing. he's not going to annex eastern ukraine. that is going to be a real problem. get his surrogates to these are not just rag tag anybody group of separatists. these are organized people in formation. the military set backs for the ukrainian authorities so it's not a joke what is happening in ukraine. everybody here has to get them to stop or else play sanctions within a matter of weeks. >> did putin get everything he wanted? >> no. he wanted the ability to dominate ukraine. they wanted to essentially break free of russian domination. he tried to stop that. he tried to stop it first by bribing them with a 14, $15 billion bribe. when the president of ukraine tried to take that, that president was ousted.

putin didn't do that, that was a success. and now they've changed it to say if the status quo continues, there will be new sanctions. that's different. before it was putin had to do something new, now the status quo is enough. what's not clear, you said, what exactly is the definition of continuing to disrupt ukrainian sovereignty. >> what's the value of a d disinvitation if other leaders make their own invitations on the site? you've been in moscow, you know how hard politics are in the way putin's administration likes to play it. do you think he's going to take these kind of semantics seriously? >> he does take it seriously. i sound the grounds in sochi where they were planning to the g-8 summit. russia fought hard to get into the g-8. 2006 when president putin hosted it in st. petersburg, it was a major event, recognition he's one of the leaders of the g-8. i think it is significant. having said that, you also see a real nervousness among our european allies of going too far, they want to continue to talk, they want to eng

in recent weeks, putin appears to have softened his stance. russian troops have been camped out along the border with ukraine for months. but now it seems that two-thirds of them have withdrawn. alleviating tensions. putin has also accepted the result of last month's presidential election in the ukraine. and g-7 leaders want the president to use his influence to end the conflict in the east. pro-russian separatists have taken control of several towns and cities and have declared independence. ukrainian soldiers are trying to put an end to the unrest. one leader who hasn't scheduled a meeting with putin is u.s. president barack obama. but both will be at the d-day ceremonies. and putin says he's ready to talk. >> translator: it's up to president obama whether there will be a meeting or not. i'm ready to talk. dialogue is the best approach to relationship building. >> reporter: the g-7 leaders have distanced themselves from putin over the turmoil in ukraine. but both sides recognize that efforts to reach a diplomatic solution are needed to move

in moscow to prove some sort of bona fide a bloody or putin and. have been doing excellent work over the last few months to try and can situation daryn the geneva seventy seventeenth of april accord that was signed to try. to bring about a dialogue with all groups and disarmament of all groups that was signed up to by the you yes the e.u. the kiev regime and russia what this deal it is not being honored by the three other parties that moscow is the only party that is actually asking for this geneva deal to be implemented meanwhile all the pressure all the emphasis being placed on putin and moscow to prove their bona fide is have already been proven were the bonafide is from washington and brussels there are none they are escalating the situation they are sponsoring the regime and can that has been illegally installed the doesn't have a mandate that slaughtering civilians as we speak. and yet there is no moral obligation or onus or examination or interrogation of washington or brussels there are going on with more pessimistic now gentlemen we've run

. >> vladimir putin also has thoughts on hillary. when people push boupd dris too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. >> francois hollande will host two dinners, the first one for president obama followed by one for vladimir putin. his girlfriend and mistress were like, you'll figure it out. >> the controversy is showing no sign of dying down in washington. >> damn straight it matter if he was a desert erer instead of a hero. >> a top member of mcdaniel's campaign, found locked in a county courthouse and all three had different explanations for being there. >> we have live footage from poland of president barack obama working out in the hotel gym. just for the love of god, pick out a weight. my god. >> did the president break the law? and did he actually tell the world he was going to break the law months ago? when president obama agreed to release five detainees to secure the homecoming of bowe bergdahl he didn't give the required 30 days notice to congress. today in brussels, president obama said sergea

you know everyone under vladimir putin russia continued towards that goal of democratization you know trying to make its economy more open trying to make its civil society more open. do you dispute that point yes i mean there's different types of democracy putin is certainly a popular leader and he certainly. stayed within the the loose parameters of democratic politics understood in the russian context but what the obama administration had in mind was real competitive western style democracy with. parties competing for the presidency competing for seats in the parliament and also much more interaction of civil society organizations inside russia with western organizations let me listen to all of logic and put in and two thousand and thirteen he was asked about his relationship with barack obama and he said one very interesting thing he said that they hear each other that they understand each other's our arguments but they simply don't agree and i wonder if it's really that simple this profound decline in bilateral relationship is simply due to the personal disagreement between the tw

putin has the chance to get back into a lane of international law. he has a president in poroshenko who he can negotiate directly with. having spoken to president poroshenko yesterday morning, it's clear that he recognizes that they need a relationship with russia and deserves a right to engage with the rest of the world. the steps that david outlined earlier a understand that the g7 unanimously agrees with, which is more mr. putin to take -- seize this moment, recognize poroshenko is the legitimate leader of ukraine, cease the support of accept are a activities and the flow of arms, work with ukraine to engage those in the east during this process of constitutional economic reform, if mr. putin takes those steps, then it is possible for us to begin to rebuild trust between russia and its neighbors and europe. should he fail to do so, though, there are going to be additional consequences and one of the important things that came out of this meeting today was the recognition on the part of all of us that we can't simply allow drift. the mere fact that

the most ironic is that of vladimir putin. they were fighting the germans on the eastern front in numbers that are beyond our imagining. we talk about the losses on d-day. millions, tens of millions of soviets and soviet civilian russians died in the world. people reduced to cannibal lichl. that was the horror of war that too many americans -- >> just as we were shaped as a world leader on that day, part of the deep russian psyche is born as well and that desperation for survival. >> you're completely right. that's why it's so important to understand history. we have to see without excusing anything that the russian view of what happened 70 years ago shapes what they are doing today. and that's an important piece of understanding what history is in terms of connecting to the present. >> thank you so much. you're going to be with us throughout the show. we're going to commemorate today's events. thank you so much, my shil traveling with the president as well. >>> let's turn back to other news we're watching here at home. a stud

it was putin started to match expectations of those -- that is -- they don't want putin at the top of the government. they want -- they want -- >> already getting up there. one last question before we open for discussion. you had a fascinating presentation. i'm sure there are lot of questions here and there's also cameras and people can send questions for -- through the internet. if there is a political change -- always a political change -- when there is a political change, a lot of people thing that in this town, some of them russian democratic immigrants think it will just be a beautiful, liberal democracy in russia, and all the evil will be punished and they will be the charge. i'll tell you the name of the person i'm quoting after this. and they're saying, next year, next year, next year we're going to have a change. in your estimate, if-when there's a change, just may take longer than we think. but when there's change, is it violent? is it peaceful? is it college revolution like mr. putin is afraid, or something else? and what are the powers that are capable of not just overthro

putin's made some better decisions. i think by the way, it would also be better for russia, because the russian economy is not in good shape right now. we've seen significant capitol flight just fromment sanctions that we've already applied. that could easily worsen, and if we have sectoral sanctions, i think it will inevitably hit russia a lot worse than europe, which has much more diversified and resilient economies. do i expect it to be unanimous among the european members? i've learned about the european union, commission, council, sometimes i get them mixed up. >> welcome to the club. >> but the basic principle that if you've got 28 people sitting around a table, then not everybody's going to agree, i think we take that for granted. i also think that if in fact we have to move to as h sectoral sanctions, make sure everybody is ponying up, bearing their fair share. some people are going to be more concerned about defense relations, some more about the financial sector, others more concerned about trade and basic goo

president putin's reaction was harder to read. [applause] then something else unexpected, a video and dramatic reenactments of the second world war, complete with explicit references to nazi brutality and the holocaust. this is one anniversary where even the most sensitive issues of the war are being dealt with openly. but brove -- above all, this day has been for the veterans. many of them are frail now. it's time to pass the stories of what they did to new generations. so this afternoon, prince william and the customess of cambridge joined a group of british veterans at a tea party. , and then in the center of a town by gold beach where one of the british divisions had fought its way ashore on d-day, old soldiers paraded for a future king. ♪ it was a chance for them to remember so many friends who never made it home. >> and it was a chance for us to express our gratitude for so much sacrificed. nicolas mitchell, "bbc news." >> they fought to secure our future. for many veterans it's likely to be the last time they'll difficult f

it's time to putin-cise. iron railroad track, lifting tiny little weights makes you weak like woman. no shame. before, after. before, after. before, after. get strong like rock. not weak like barack. putin-cise now. do it. >> do it. very funny stuff. we don't have to discuss. >> enough said. enough said. >> it speaks for itself. >> i think it does represent views of a lot of russians. >> putin-cise. >> there's truth to that. >> thanks very much. >>> coming up, north korea says it's holding yet another american, a tourist who reportedly left a bible in a hotel room. what kind of fate can he expect from that ruthless regime? >>> and we're taking you inside the veterans affairs investigation with the cnn correspondent who first turned spotlight on the scandal. a woman who loves to share her passions. grandma! mary has atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts her at a greater risk of stroke. rome? sure! before xarelto®, mary took warfarin, which required monthly t

putin responds to strength. reasonable controls, full of armed people who may or may not be -- >> they are going to need technical assistance, more than the international community is currently providing. >> ukraine has a very undercapitalized system. our strength against russia is our economic strength. that is where we can stop russia more effectively, and -- are our best weapon. we talk about terrorists attacking us asymmetrically. everybody here supports sanctions done intelligently and quickly could get a very rapid response. russia to not trust stop the flow into ukraine. >> i agree we can do more to assist ukraine in terms of tightening their border. in the short term it will be the gold given the length of the border come and my guess is as long as the russians are determined to get across they will find ways. in the short term, to pressure additional sanctions on russia, we have got to get russia to be part of the solution, not the problem. oflet's remember the history brushfire battles. we also need to

it says that d-day beaches are a diplomatic minefield for vladimir putin.this is the first time he's meeting his european and american counterparts since russia annexed crimea in march. he is going to house mcsweeney's to do, -- according to this he's going to have some explaining to do, according to this. this says we are clearly facing a d-day, a d-day for peace. the piece we know is fragile, according to this. it calls on diplomats to learn their history lessons. it would be hypocritical if the heads of states gathered to remember the past and did not take advantage of this opportunity to build a peaceful future. >> the french media in particular has been paying a lot of attention to one head of state. >> that is right. that is queen elizabeth. the french media love to poke fun at the british royal family, but they have a lot of respect for the queen. she is the star of d-day, according to this. she is the only head of state that participated in the war that is still alive. they remind us she enlisted in the women's branch of the british army where she l

putin, it's taking place in brussels.ers have issued a joint statement saying they're ready now to intensify targeted sanctions against russia if moscow doesn't help to ease tensions in eastern ukraine. those measures come on sanctions already imposed against russian officials, individuals, institutions like banks. president putin was not sharing breakfast this morning with other world leaders. that doesn't mean he's all together absent from dinner plans. the french president is expected to meet mr. putin for dinner paris according to french newspapers. this is what the president of the european commission had to say about the formal exclusion of russia and also meetings planned with mr. putin once the similar -- the summit closes. >> we are keeping dialogue with russia which is important. another thing is accept russia in the forum. it's powerful we cannot accept vladimir putin as member of the g 8. of course we're keeping our ways of dialogue with them, russia, because we have to recognize russia is necessary to find a