the cunning that has its doubts this is a china routinely any sleep mason's contributing editor stephen cullen joined our team the big picture earlier to talk about that very subject. listen to what he had to say about how this kind of coverage could disrupt u s russian relations the coverage even in the sixteen leading american newspapers. to me and virtually wishing for something bad happens or what they call putin's games. and they are so human. president of the recruitment drive for so many years that when they talk about whom and when the terrorists were at the mercy corps in the church i read two articles of war and post last week or weeks ago i was unsure who i was going to be rooting for the carriage is the kind of love the maoists. it has long been embedded in his coverage of the store she again which is extremely or very bad for american russian relations that was the nations contributing editor steve allen. while a few i knew last and take a look outside your window you're most likely seen some salad from the deep south to the northeast million sa winter blast of snow rain and sleet

those threats as well as an understanding of the situation on the ground on this guy and a father stephen cullen is one of those people listen. we were going to have president obama apparently been informed about what's going on. he says he hopes his protesters will become violent. worried that they'd been violent for more than a week the completion of the occupying government buildings use buildings on fire you crying. when we get this incredible statement by the european union and washington that the recession people who resort to violence the rat. the president of ukraine by how well the guys wearing masks to the streets in hurling molotov cocktail a lot more to talk to somebody from the state department. going to get their names phone numbers and addresses. ostrich. more on the west stands icons to ukraine's demonstrations let's hang out. our team guy and ketchikan. doesn't obama knows with ukrainian media should do a whole primarily responsible for making sure that it is dealing with the peaceful protesters in an appropriate way. i was an obama has however made no suggestions on how ukraini

. >> reporter: attorney stephen cullen is an expert in fighting international custody battles. >> if we went over there -- >> reporter: he's taken on shannon's case for free because he says even the united states government isn't helping. >> and it's horrible to have to admit to michael we've all failed him. the system has failed him. the legal system's failed him. we've all failed him because nothing has happened to get his children back. >> reporter: it is an international nightmare that began with a most american of love stories. in 1995 michael shannon was a computer specialist in chicago when his best friend invited him to a company softball game. the company was the engineering giant bechtel, and on that softball field he met a bechtel employee, nermeen khalifa, and fell in love. >> she was in your eyes american. >> americanized. yeah. i didn't find out until three months after we were dating that her father was born in cairo. >> reporter: her egyptian father was an extremely wealthy and powerful businessman who made sure his daughters, including nermeen, were born u.s. citizen