steven hadley saw from the white house saw mr.ring a piece of soviet georgia back into the russian sphere. good to have you back on the program again. there's this belief among some, yourself included that what's happening in ukraine is part of a larger attempt by president vladamir putin to rebuild the russian empire, to dig in against the west. you and jim are at the map. tell us exactly what you're talking about and why. how do you see it? >> he's trying to build a series of institutions that in some sense mirror the institutions in the west. he's got a thing called the eurasian union. it's got a customs union attached. he's got a security organization sort of mirrored on nato. so he's trying to build a set of institutions to rebuild, if you will, a russian empire. and you can see how far he's gone so far. >> we put those in red. so you have here three countries. kazakhstan, russia itself, and belarus. we were talking earlier about how he's pulling armenia here, and kyrgyzstan closer, they're not in it yet, but they're coming c

steven hadley saw from the white house saw mr. putin bring a piece of the soef -- there's this belief among some, yourself included that what's happening in ukraine is part of a larger attempt by president vladimir putin to dig in against the west. tell us exactly what you're talking about and why. how do you see it? >> he's trying to build a series of institutions that in some sense mirror the institutions in the west. he's got a thing called the eurasian union. he's got a security organization sort of based on nato. he wants to rebuild not a soviet empire, but a russian empire. and you can see how far he's gone so far. >> you have three countries, kazakhstan, russia and -- we were talking earlier about how he's pulling armenia here, and kirgustan closer, they're not in it yet, but they're coming closer. >> they're putting a lot of pressure on it. armenia had an association agreement with the eu. after three and a half hours in moscow, putin said we're going to go with the eu. >> there's diplomatic pressure, there's financial pre

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steven hadley said he wants to put ukraine in nato. great idea. then we could fight the russians ourselves, which nato membership would require. are all these people crazy? weren't they thrilled like the rest of us when mikhail gorbachev decided to end the cold war? why do they yearn to get things fired up again? why do they positively pine for the fighting to get going? my answer, remember the way we got through the cold war was for 44 years, from 1947 to 1991, we, and this included every president from harry truman to ronald reagan, we avoided all the opportunities for the u.s. and the ussr to go to battle with each other. that's what we did. so why are the crazies on the right trying to do just the opposite? steven cohen is a professor of russian studies at new york university. and eugene robinson is a pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst. professor, thank you for joining us. why would -- let's get to putin here. what do you think he wants to do? what price is he willing to pay to do it? >> w

i appreciate your candor, both of you, steven hadley, ambassador michael mcfaul.'ll come back and help us again on this difficult subject. >>> we're almost exactly five years removed from the market bottom back in 2009. the dow fell to as low as 6,600 then. what if we took a deep breath and started buying, just at that moment? cnbc's dominic chu will join us with a look at some stocks you know are up a massive amount since that time. i mean massive amount. that's next up on "kudlow." later on, the countdown on for the big february jobs report, coming out at 8:30 tomorrow morning. many experts are predicting a very disappointing number. but you know what? many experts are frequently wrong. anyway, don't forget, free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. free market capitalism and freedom are huge issues in this whole ukraine/putin argument. i'm ked lo. we'll be right lack. so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 a month? yup. all 5 of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all da

joining me now is steven hadley, former national security adviser for president george w. bush. he's now a principal at rice hadley gates, a strategic consulting firm. mr. hadley, thanks so much for being here. we appreciate it. >> nice to be here. >> a lot has happened since the white house announced yesterday there would be sanctions. president obama and putin had what sounded like an unpleasant conversation. the parliament announced its support. key members for this crimea referendum. and russia's foreign minister told secretary john kerry these sanctions could boomerang on the u.s. if you were national security adviser to president obama right now, what would you tell him to do next? it seems like things are escalating. >> i think one of the problems is cranking up of pressure has really lagged event. and i'm afraid that it's pretty clear what's going to happen here in the next ten days. there will be a referendum with russian troops occupying the country with a basically a russian installed government in crimea. the population will vote to join russia and they made it clear