eventually they come back to the united states to create problems too. people have to see beyond what is the immediate problem and think about how the research that has been done in the united states, how what is done in terms of the pharmaceutical development here not only helps the united states but also the rest of the world because helping those people also help people here. it's a different way of thinking about the fact that we are not isolated. this is a global problem. >> how big is the online business of prescription drugs? >> i cannot tell you right off the top of my head the number but it's fairly large. >> would you ever order anything online? >> no, i wouldn't. >> nobody? >> no, i would not. simply i would not. that would be my own personal. i would not >> are there any rep rep puteable companies? > of course. ordering online could mean many things. in ould be a genetics house india. i have seen the whole range of spectrum but personally i would not order online. >> which countries have you experienced have done the best with medicine? >> it

what is at stake for the united states? what american national interests are on the line when people in other countries argue over a territory and in international board changes. prime minister yatsenyuk comes to washington hoping the u.s. will back its threats with action. president obama hosted his first meeting with ukraine's interim prime minister yatsenyuk wednesday. >> the interests of the united states are solely in making sure that the people of ukraine are able to determine their own destiny. that is something that we here at the united states believe in deeply. we know that you believe deeply in it as well, and you can rest assured that you would have our strong support as you move forward in these difficult times. >> the two leaders discussed peaceful ends. the goal, get russia to accept it's sovereignty and it's new government. >> they cannot dictate to them how they should arrange their affairs. that is not something that can be done with the barrel of a gun pointed at you. >> with fight for our freedom. we figh

our friends in the united states what we believe is the truth. i don't think i've ever condemned the united states. >> charlie: you use language everybody would assume is condemning. >> well, we can have an argument about semantics on that issue. but what i'm saying is that if i see my friend doing something wrong, i have to tell him that he's doing something wrong. >> charlie: and something wrong he was doing was not being as tough with syria as he should have been when the so-called red line that he announced was passed. that's the biggest issue. not iran. >> indeed. >> charlie: the final thing, the qatar government is always raising concerns because it seems to be aggressive, ambitious, wanting to play a huge role in the region, the kind of role saudi arabia and egypt have played. this is jeff goldberg who you know. >> not personally. >> charlie: but you know who he is. he gets these interviews with the president all the time, and you read those. al-fani, th the amir of qatar mt with five neighboring countries including saudi arabia, bahrain, t

averting away from a more direct conflict actually came at some cost to the united states and its relationship with the saudis similarly the united states helped turn the tide of the battle in afghanistan in the eighty's against the soviet union by introducing a large number of men portable air defense systems that the mujahedeen used against the russian the soviet air force the united states hasn't done much credit for the russians for something that they've done which is showing some restraint when it comes to manpads in syria today the saudis have been itching to introduce those in massive numbers unsupervised without any sort of permissive actual links without any sort of way for the us for instance to disable them if they fall into the hands of. but the united states has actually held relatively firm on to date and that's an area in which the us hasn't gotten much dr weinberg i think this is a very noble and teleportation of both in a recent events in history because if it wasn't for the united states and saudi arabia those weapons were in be in syria in the first place so i don't see how

our friends in the united states what we believe is the truth. don't think i've ever condemned the united states. >> i could read you some language. >> we could have an argument about semantics on that issue. what i say is, if i see my friend doing something wrong, i have to tell him he is doing something wrong. >> something wrong he was doing was not being as tough as he should've been when the so-called red line that he announced was passed? that was the issue. >> indeed. >> a final thing. the qatar government is always raising concerns. wanting to play a huge role in the region. the kind of role that saudi arabia and egypt have played. this is jeffrey goldberg. you know his work. he gets these interviews all the time. you read those. the amir, he met secretly in kuwait last week with foreign ministers from five neighboring countries, including saudi arabia, bahrain, according to two people with direct knowledge of this meeting. including your brother. he had a simple message for the emir. cut it out. we know what you are doing. >> saudi arabia,

oil is fueling the revolutions over there and oil imported into the united states. by the way right now we import in the united states six-point 3 million barrels of oil a day. 6.3 million barrels. that is our achilles heel. that is what makes us weak so what does this proposal say? takes the dirtiest oil in the world build a pipeline have the u.s. take all the environmental risk bring it to port arthur texas and then export it. by the way we are having a big debate yesterday about exporting natural gas that could be used to move our vehicles from oil over to natural gas and have it be here in united states. what do the people who are on this committee say? we should start exporting our natural gas too but we are to export our young men and women over to the middle east so we can protect imports. we don't have self-sufficiency and natural gas in united states. we import it. we don't have self-sufficiency and oil. we imported so this is a national security issue. it's an economic issue, it's a any fixturing issue. it's a climate issue. now i heard the senator from ten

did the united states see it coming? guest: i don't think the united states saw it coming either. the events began in the run-up to the signing. that's what the united states was pushing. it was in the belief that the advantage of that would be that ukraine would get a free trade agreement with the e.u., and that was seen as really a great accomplishment toward economic and political reform in ukraine. e ukraine. i think that is what we were pushing. that was what we were pushing. yanukovych was wavering but didn't say no. they told ukraine on several occasions not to deal with nato, and that was not a strong issue in ukraine. there are not a majority of people that want to join nato, but the e.u. represented something different, and putin allowed those negotiations to proceed. when they got to a crisis point, intervened then. host: let's get one last phone call in here. go ahead. caller: i just wanted to make a quick point, and maybe also bring light the fact that we've seen both the media and political analysts always bring to the followed putin, obama, and our leaders. but we ha

main aim for united states in my opinion is not to struggle with russia the main aim is to keep cheaper gas and cheap electricity inside you not to say so that is why united states will not be the suicide spot of elegy us speaking about next to kate i tape it what it was what it made energy bills to europe that i said. you know if the united states will begin the next with a full in g. and these gas will be not for europe it will be a festival for asia and the reason is also very simple because now the gas price in the euro but not for elegy even for russian gas which is old a bit more expensive is three fatted eighty four hundred dollars a barrel on solving quickly the gas prices in tokyo for. always more than seven probably dollars so that is why of course if united states will begin its beautiful jeep first of all this will be not for europe it will be for asia and that is why it's a serious mistake for europeans do we for united states constantine see thank you for your time today talking to us from a very sunny and all the windy mall sky thank you. time

, only inside the united states and that is because article to as the iccpr, which defines its scope says that a state party is bound to respect and ensure the right and the iccpr only to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction. as my predecessor, conrad harper said at the time, and this is dual requirement that establishes the treaty obligations applied only if both conditions are satisfied. an individual must be under united states jurisdiction and within united states territory. and now the negotiating position of the united states of the treaty confirms that interpretation. the phrase, within its territory was added at the request of the head of the u.s. delegation, eleanor roosevelt at the time in 1950 and she explained that quote, the purpose of the proposed addition is to make it clear that the draft covenant would apply only to persons within the territory and subject to the jurisdiction of the contracting states. there was a vote held on that addition and that addition was adopted 822-1950. subsequent efforts to change that have failed him

increase in the gas prices inside united states it will be the end all for economical polisario for mr obama because mr obama is speaking about telling off of factories from asia to united states and the main argument is cheap gas because cheap gas means she put it through city eve there will be no cheap gas even there will be no she put it through such it there will be no economic growth inside united states so that is why i absolutely sure that that now we can hear a lot of political in which you waited to slogans serious elegy exit from united states but the main aim for united states in my opinion is not to struggle with the rush of the main aim is to keep sheep with gas and cheap electricity inside you not to say so that is why united states will not buy the su a six point zero for ellen g. us speaking about next decade i tape it what it was what it made for energy bills to europe that i said. you know if the united states will begin the next with a full in g. and these gas will be not for europe it will be a festival for asia and the reason is also

it lows the banks to give use united states prosecutors hits and clues that might help the united states in the hunt for tax evaders instead of a straight list of accounts that existed before august 2008 are not even covered. united states has been told to piece the clues together, go on a treasure hunt trying to identify accounts, using very li limited information while the swiss banks get immunity from prosecution. a swiss court turned down a u.s. treaty request for client names ruling the fact a swiss account was disclosed wasn't enough to justify the swiss secrecy laws. the swiss found preserving bank secrecy more important than supporting united states effort to prosecute tax evasion. after they overcame the 4700 accounts, many predicted the swiss secrecy wouldn't impede anymore. in 2008, testimony before the subcommittee pledged to act interjecting. kevin o'connor testified that quote we will not be deterred. we will pursue other formal and informal efforts of maintaining the formal efforts we seek. he said this includes the use of john doe summons and grand jury subpoenas close qu

these are areas where the united states and the west already cooperate. he united states weighs it's response, it's going to have to take that into account. it doesn't want to make an already bad situation even worse. >> ben wedeman on the ground in crimea. how present are russian forces and pro russian forces on the streets? are they manning roadblocks, intercepting people, checking people's identity papers? are people able to freely move about? >> life really seems to be going on pretty much as normal, the russians are sort of stationed around ukrainian military bases, as i said before, they were at this ferry port, but we drove for hours and hours throughout crimea today, and we didn't see any russians. no trucks, no men, nothing. and so they don't really interfere with the daily life of people going around. going about their business, they're concentrated in very specific areas. you see them at the airport. but they're just -- just two or three walking around, they're not actually involved in the operations of facilities like airports, so it's a very b

he is also good at dividing europe from the united states. e've seen that in the last couple of days, sunday and today. it's so important that the united states close ranks with germany. one more thing we should put on the table, the president's response, he's assembling the right package in sending kerry to kiev. he needs to probably build up some nato defenses of east yearn european allies. he needs to leave putin exit doors. we want to create a scenario where he can back out, where we invite him to do that. it was interesting to me president obama mentioned in the phone call with president putin saturday, the 90-minute phone call, that the united states does understand that there's this issue of ethnic russians and why doesn't the oec, organization for security and cooperation in europe, widessent the united states and europe help russia monitor the well being to have the russians that immediately leave the necessity for russian troops. putin may not take the opportunity now but at least it gives him a potential way out. >> charlie: what do

we have had a long and historic relationship with the united states. ring the 40's, 50's, and 60's when the cold war was at its height, the saudi arabian and united states worked closely on many issues. afghanistan was one. the middle east, you had terrible things happening. soviet encroachment. some parties, and the kingdom and in other states worked closely. the ultimate cooperation happened when saddam hussein invaded kuwait. we had half a million american soldiers on saudi soil. >> to the consternation of someone like osama bin laden. >> and nonetheless -- >> as our member, you met with somebody. >> to get bin laden handed over to the kingdom. the united states stood by us. we needed a friend to stand by us. we stuck by the united states when they needed a friend to stand by them. i trust united states. >> in the first gulf war? >> and previous to that, and subsequent to that. do you believe that the president and his leadership has weakened america? what's your president has had a tough time. his first term was spent trying to take over the problem

president of the united states of america, authorized by act of congress march 3rd, 1863 has awarded the name of congress the medal of honor to specialist for, santiago jay carinthia, united states army for conspicuous directory at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. specialist for santiago jay to establish himself in 21 may 1969 will serve as a radio telephone operator and come to defeat, airmobile 500 infantry in the air division airmobile during a search and clear mission near tom t. republic of vietnam. through his heroic actions, the lives of the wounded were saved in the members of the company command posts were late from a very precarious situation. his exemplary performance in the face of overwhelming danger was an inspiration to his entire come any and contributed immeasurably to the success of the mission. specialist arrivia gallantry, extraordinary heroism and intrepidity at the risk of his own life above and beyond the call of duty were in keeping with the highest tradition of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit and the unit

, and the canada ambassador to the united states. fta 20 on "inside story." stay with us. >> welcome book inside story. i'm ray suarez. it's been 20 years since the enactment of nafta. it created a vast free strayed zone between the united states, mexico and canada. and we we're marking this angle verse with a closer look--we a . did nafta become less important because something that we couldn't have really known about in 1990 when it was being negotiated happened, and that is the rise of china. did china end up being a player in a way that we couldn't have imagined when this trade deal was being worked out? i know this has had a big impact on mexico. >> it did. originally the first two or three years of nafta, the manufacturing activity in mexico was really booming. then an uninvited guest appeared in the room, and it was china. of course lots of manufacturing went away from the region to china. now amazingly our total cost of production in the region has come down to a very competitive level against china. in 2001 mexico had a large

dealing with the united states first. and then we are going to lead by example what we are doing here today. >> on the previous question, do you see any need for reforms for programs in section 702, such aspirin? >> you know, those programs are under different authority. we oversee them. we have lots of conversations about what they are. and that is an overseas-based program. and i don't believe you want to bring that in to some domestic discussion. that is a very program with a very different set of authorities which is heavily overseen by the committee. i'm not sure we ought to try to mix the two. this is the program that caused the angst. that bulk collection of metadata. we believe it's a pretty big agreement here today that says we found a bipartisan way to end the government collecting in bulk that metadata and found a new way to protect the united states. >> there is a separate matter. there is someone -- many high-tech c.e.o.'s lobbying in washington having concerns about it. you are saying the main problems -- is

. >> the president of the united states of america, authorized by act of congress march 3, 1863, has warded in the name of congress the medal of honor to master sergeant mike c. peÑa, united states army, for conspicuous gallantry and entry bidty at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. master sergeant mike c. peÑa distinguished himselfs by acts of gallantry above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a member of company f, fifth cavalry regiment, first cavalry division during combat operations against an armed enemy in korea on sepp 4, 1950. that evening under cover of darkness and a dreary mist, an enemy battalion moved to within a few yards of master sergeant peÑa's platoon. recognizing the enemy's approach, master sergeant peÑa and his men owned fire, but the enemy's sudden emergence and accurate point-blank fire forced the friendly troops to withdraw. master sergeant peÑa rapidly reorganized his men and led them in a counterattack which succeeded in regaining the positions they had just lost. he and his men quickly established a defensive perimeter and lai

quite explicit agreement that washington would defend the gulf state in exchange for oil contracts and the unitedstates no longer needs that much saudi oil and the nature of security threats has also changed so i wonder if it's possible. sooner or later the united states and saudi arabia will have to part ways well first of all i'd like to address something that you said right before your question which is how this conflict started as americans see it the way this conflict started was a russian supported dictator. slaughter of his people when they went out on the street and peaceably demonstrated as well as arresting and torturing teenagers so that is how we see how this goes well you see how the u.s. and the saudis way because you are told that this conflict started this way as somebody who was on the ground in syria all those three years ago i can tell you that you know there were snipers there were provoke attorneys there were saudi agents there on the scene so obviously the tactics. are not to be defended you know his indiscriminate use of force but i wonder if the united states would react i

here, the united states' position used to be very strong. you look at the proceedings of the u.n. general assembly in december of 1948, when the resolution was being adopted, calling on israel to repatriate. they shamed not be pawned of the a political settlement. the position was we will deal with the refugee issue when, and if we get recognition from the arab states, and, indeed, he was saying, no, this is humanitarian issue to be dealt with. the united states voted in favor of general assembly resolution 194 that was adopted then, and every year thereafter when it was reiterated by the general assembly up until the mid-90s, the united states voted in favor of those reiterations of general assembly resolution 194, and that, then, we stopped. now, of course, israel has a peace agreement with egypt, with jordan, and it negotiates an agreement with israel, and the rationale, if that was the real rationale, they should be prepare to accept the refugees. this not pressed by the united states in the negotiation at all. it couldn't save it in the

the united states said "don't go into crimea, don't take crimea, and they did", now the united statesays, "don't take eastern ukraine, don't take eastern ukraine." what other hammer does the u.s. have. you mentioned the cold war earlier, and what is different about today verses the cold war is the russian economy is exposed and integrated and now you are into a contest between vladimir putin and western leaders about costs: europe, in particular, which has - does a great deal of business with russia has the ability to hurt russia, but has to mag the costs in terms of the impact. >> and russia has the ability to hurt europe and the united states as well, right. >> europe in particular. you know, the united states has some contacts with russia, not as extensive as in europe. >> i'm talking natural gas. >> but also what the united states has over the long run is now a new energy card, and probably should begin to deploy the card so that over time russian leverage regarding the energy card is reduced. >> i guess what i'm asking is how deep does the united states want to get foo this -- in

the eu is united with the united states, nato is united, and moving the meeting from sochi to right behind me in brussels come this june, and the president spoke largely about the impact of the sanctions on russia. >> in order for russia to feel the brunt -- the impact of these sanctions that it will have some impact on the global economy as well on all of the countries that are represented here today. >> and the president talking about the energy sanctions, recognizing that europe is much more vulnerable. interesting crediting the u.s. saying the u.s. has been blessed by what is known as frac-ing. >> even though that energy is being produced in record numbers in the united states, it is not necessarily being loaded on ships or kept in the united states. we're going to go back live now to brussels, as we listen to the new questions coming in. >> reporter: what more do you expect the united states to do to help the european union do to reduce its dependance on russian oil, and are you concerned that obstacles in congress will prevent you on achieving your goals on trade and also on ukraine?

action. >> president obama hosted his first meeting with arseniy yatsenyuk. >> the interests of the united states is making sure that the people of ukraine can determine their own destiny. that is something that here in the united states we believe in deeply. i know it's something you believe in deeply as well. and you can rest assured that you will have our strong support as you move forward during the difficult times. >> the two leaders discussed ways to peacefully end the russian military intervention. the goal - get russia to recognise ukrainian sovereign city, integrity and the new government. >> they cannot have a country outside of ukraine dictate how they should arrange their affairs. that's not something that can be done with the barrel of a gun point at you. >> mr president,it's all about the freedom. we fight for our freedom and independence. we fight for our sovereignty and will never surrender. >> as the diplomatic wheels turp, the situation is tense. the world waits to see what the people in crimea will do at the ballot box. the referendum will ask whether crimea should breakaway an

the united states asserted that this was not a precedent. ny other countries chose not to recognize it as an independent country, including russia. the question of self determination and national sovereignty is one of those great gray areas of international law. it depends on the circumstances usually. both sides can assert either side in terms of rights under international law. what is glaring in this case is obviously what has happened in crimea is not an immediate kind of reaction to human rights violations or a structured vote on referendum. but a very juried operation by this -- hurried operation to be conducted while the occupied militarily. host: we talked about the steps necessary to resolve it. proposed referendum on the future crimea would violate the degrading constitution, and violate international law. any discussion about the future of ukraine must include the legitimate government of ukraine. beyond we are very much the time when borders can be redrawn over the head of democratic leaders. while we take these steps, i want to be

the united states showing its the united states showing its continued international leadership has organized a forum over the last several years that's been able to help eliminate that threat in a consistent way. >> and of course, the president was asked that question that american presidents are always asked by white house correspondents who sometimes like to pretend that the president of the united states is the king of the world. whenever another head of state makes a choice that the american president doesn't like, that president is always asked if america's influence in the world, that president's in the world is on the decline. >> in china, in syria, in egypt and now in russia, we' seen you make strong statements, issue warnings that have been ignored. are you concerned that america's influence in the world, your influence in the world is on the decline? >> well, jonathan, i think if the premise of the question is that whenever the united states objects to an action and other countries don't immediately do exactly what we want that that's been the norm, that would pretty much erase mos

the former warsaw pact states on russian energy. that's one why of the bullets on this agenda is what is going to happen to those states. what can the united states do, the european leaders want to know to increase their poeshthss of energy. there is a moratorium of oil being imported from the united states. and liquified natural gas, new permits have been granted to construct some support facilities that could conceivably export liquified natural gas to europe, but that's obviously not a short-term solution, del. >> mike, stand by. our jennifer glasse remains on the ground in sevastopol as we continue to follow the crisis in ukraine. we also have our special guests in the studio here that are providing expertise not only in terms of what may happen next, but also behind the actors. we are now getting a text concerning the president's speech, discussing why it may be necessary to reexamine the world as you heard mike say to a energy producing globe. we're going to take a break, we'll be right back. >>> as we await word from the president who will be speaking in brussels, belgium, we want to get you caught up on some of the other developmen

the ee you and united states -- the eu and united states are discussing sanctions next week. is the government of ukraine contemplating sanctions toward crimea? in particular, are you planning to continue water, energy, and imports to crimea? >> jack, why don't you pass the mic down to the woman down to this row? >> from public television. mr. prime minister, we would like to know what kind of actions do you expect next week from your neighboring countries like slovakia, hungary, romania, and poland? thank you. >> and let me take the final question here from honors. >> thank you for a very impressive statement to us today, mr. prime minister. we really wish you the very best. on that line, what is the wish list with regard to the national security that you would put to the united states and the european union today? thank you. >> our ability to provide water and electricity to crimea. i want to be very clear, crimea is a vital part of ukraine. and we will do everything in order to deliver food, water, because this is our territory, and they are our citizens. on the european si

so this is an important leadership moment for the united states, and the united states working, obviously, with it's european allies, it's going to have to work through this problem, that's why you've had the president take a lead on political embrace of ukrainian's interim government, you've had secretary kerry leading the negotiations in europe on trying to get to an agreement on an end state here or at least an interim end state. so it's an important leadership moment for the united states. this is europe. >> charlie: and the russians, you know the president, you saw him, i guess, last may -- >> yeah. >> charlie: -- tell me where you think his head is in this. >> well, you know, as a general matter, you know, the concept of the sphere of influence, balance of power, zero-sum games, these are very real concepts to president putin. he, you know, has set about trying to define russian foreign policy as separate from, independent from the foreign policies of the west. the principle point as a counterto the united states and the west. he sees threats to his country and his view is very much

well i did the royal royal you know i think it will be. dangerous decision for united states to become the real exporter of ellen g. . because the situation is very simple not guess prices in the united states from head to fab they extreme achieve them much cheaper than the europe plan of course so seriously cheaper than that on asian markets and if united states all will really begin an expert of elegy it will see the increase in the gas prices inside united states it will be the end all for economical polisario for mr obama because mr obama speaking about her talking of full of factories from asia to united states and the main argument is she guessed because cheap gas means she put it through city even there will be no cheap gas you know there will be no cheap put it through cities but there will be no economic growth inside united states so that is why i absolutely assure that the now we can hear a lot of political in which you waited to slogans serious elegy exit from united states but the main aim for united states in my opinion is not to struggle with the rush of the ma

but because it does not have an refineries an unlikely partnership has emerged from the united statesand this south american nation. >> years ago even under hue go chavez, when he's talking about our being the devil or some of these rhetorical positions, the bottom line is that the united states is the closest largest market for venezuelan oil. >> and the u.s. is thirsty for oil. despite a recent energy boon it still imports 40% of its oil needs. of those imports 8% comes from venezuela which accounts for nearly 1 million barrels a day. refiners process venezuelan crude in places like texas and illinois, adding american jobs before sending the refined product or gas lean back to venezuela. >> there is a lot at stake here for the venezuelan government to show responsible stewardship inside of its own country and the united states has to temper its response considering the fact that venezuelan oil is a major supply source for the united states. >> but some venezuelan officials say their country could pump more of the oil business back into their own economy by investing more in domestic

here in the united states, obviously. that affecting or off setting the production in the united states? >> well, in the united states specifically, as you pointed out, we have substitution between coal and natural gas. we have a huge capacity at the power generational level. around 9 bcf a day of coal to gas switching and capacity exists in the power generation market and that in context of a 70 billion cubic feet of market tells you you can replace 13% of natural gas consumption on a given day using thermal coal and vice sa versa. and so the shale is freeing up a lot of coal consumption in the u.s. and now being exported and remember the other driver is environmental concerns. we are trying to move towards cleaner fuels and trying to replace dirty coal, which makes up almost 40% of the power base with cleaner fuels and that is very important driver and trying to use wind, solar and hydro electric power and definitely natural gas as well. >> i remember riding in the subway here in new york city and seeing ads for clean c

american leadership not only in the region now in the way of our secretary of state, but also the president of the unitede live airways to comment specifically on the russian encouragement into the crimean peninsula. what it means not only for russia, the international community, but also for ukrainians themselves as they head forward towards elections. the president made specific references

leaders meeting in the hague formed a strong united front in denouncing russia's unlawful actions again the people of the ukraine. under president obama's leadership, the united states, canada, france, italy, japan, germany and the united kingdom took further action by suspending russia from the g-8. as of today, it's the g-7. and canceling the planned summit in sochi this summer. now, i mentioned those seven countries, but over in europe yesterday, the president was there with some 42 other nations, all of them looking with an eye toward what russia had done that was totally contrary to international law. excluding russia from the g-8, president obama and our allies have sent the message loud and clear that this bullying behavior and rhetoric will not go unchallenged. i applaud the efforts of our allies to take the stand against russia's aggression and welcome their further commitment to hold president putin and his cronies -- and they really are his cronies. this is a government that is corrupt. they need to be held accountable for violating international law. this cannot go unnoticed and unretaliated against. as for action here in the united states senate, i look

the principal hot point here with respect to the united states has been syria. we had a fundamental disagreement. putin tells the story from kosovo to afghanistan to libya to syria. going to stand up against the west and was acting under the united states to move under these regimes. that has been the position he has taken. the russians have been really, really a serious problem in quite a destructive of the situation in syria. >> notwithstanding the initial agreement to get the chemical weapons out of syria? >> i am tough but the broader scope of things in syria. with respect to the chemical weapons, it is a very good agreement and important for us to get back to cooperation and more important to push the syrians to meet their obligations. that is an example of a russian/u.s. cooperation. we had not had the ukraine situation and it could've been something we could build and hopefully we can into the future. it is important piece of business. >> worst case scenario and then the best case. worst case would be reigniting the cold war. >> a couple of elements. one i

the citation. >> santiago areceivey, united states army, the president of the united states of america authorized by act of congress march 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor to specialist 4 santiago j. erevia, united states army for gallantry at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. santiago j. erevia distinguished himself above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a adio telephone operator in irst battalion air mobile, 101 airborne division near tamky republic of vietnam on may 21, 1969. specialist 4 erevia rendered first aid to several casualties and the rest of the plaptoon moved forward. he came under intense hostile fire from four bunkers. although he could have taken cover with the rest of the element, he chose a course of action. with heaven my fire directed at him, he moved in full view of the hostile gunners as he proceeded to crawl from one wounded man to the other gathering ammunition. armed with two m-16 rifles, he charged toward the enemy positions behind the suppressive fire of the two rifles. under intense fire as he continued

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it is the big player, not the united states. ast week, vladimir putin has looked like a statesman. >> instead of a pariah, he's a statesman, he's a partner of peace and he can lecture the united states of america. >> if this was a tennis match it would be the umpire shouting advantage putin. >> that is how the right felt about vladimir putin's role in propping up the dictatorship of bashar al assad in syria. right now we're hearing some of the same love from the right on president putin invading crimea. honestly you don't get much of a sense that president obama much cares what the right thinks about him on issues like this but there are decisions that are going to have to be made in short order where that sentiment is going to be tested. first president obama called on congress to extend aid to ukraine, to the new embattled government of ukraine to give them essentially a nonrussian economic lifeline. house majority leader eric cantor today suggested that the house could move on at least some kind of aid package rather quickly.

person in the united states. may be somewhat technical point but there seems to be a quirk in the statute. it says that you can target people reasonably to be outside the united states. you cannot reverse a target some outside the united states for the purpose to target a particular known person reasonably believed to be in the united states your does that permit targeting of persons outside the united states with the intent of getting information about u.s. persons not in the united states? >> no. >> why not? >> there's a separate provision that bars targeting u.s. persons outside the united states. so if you were doing that, you were trying to target a u.s. person outside the united states, you couldn't do that spin reverse targeting procedure -- >> i don't know if you'd call that reverse targeting. >> there is another statutory provision under 702. spent on the talking, i agree, you can target a u.s. person outside attorney. but what if i find a non-u.s. person i know is intimidation with the u.s. person is als

europe again, and now here we are at a moment in time because of what russia pulled and it's the united states trying to get europe to be more -- to play more of the role that they used to play, which is banding together with the united states to be a check on the east and on russia specifically. >> chuck, just very quickly, it looks like we are approaching the president coming out and delivering his remarks, but he did have a press availability earlier. how was that received? >> it seemed to be received fine. he spent a lot of time talking about -- you know, he's pushing this trade agreement in particular that frankly is going to be tough politically for him to sell back in the united states, particularly in his own party. but that was the top of the agenda for those meetings here, although, of course, you crane a b -- ukraine a big part of the agenda, too. he has a meeting with the head of nato, where we expect some more advancement of exactly what the president himself said. he made a little bit of news on nato. he said it would be nice if european nations contributed a little bit more mone

speaker, to the president of the united states, i hope he's listening that our first amendment rights, our second amendment rights, all of our rights are nonnegotiable because they are guaranteed by the constitution of the united states. that's why this matters. and that's why the gentleman from texas is dead on today to talk about this issue. because this is it. if we lose political speech and expression and religious liberty, it's game over for the american people. game over. mr. gohmert: i would like to ask the gentlelady a question, knowing history, our history, as well as you do, can you imagine if king george had sent a decree penalty , pay a $2,000 or tax and then you can observe your religious beliefs, what would the gentlelady think would be the response of patrick henry, john adams, james madison, thomas payne, all of those people -- thomas payne wasn't a very religious man but he was big on rights. mrs. bachmann: we know what they would say. patrick henry said, give me liberty or give me death. they were willing to put their live, their honor, their sacred fortune on the li

the united states also has choices to make. and president obama has been clear that we cannot allow russia or any country to defy international law with impuimpu. there's no place in the community of nations for the kind of aggression and steps that we have seen taken in crimea and ukraine in these last days. so today as we announced we would last week, we have taken specific steps and the state department also has taken specific steps in response to what has occurred. starting today president obama's direction, the state department is putting in place tough visa restrictions on a number of officials and other individuals. the united states will not grant visas to those who threaten the sovereignty or territorial integrity of ukraine. and if they already have one, it will be revoked in those individual cases. let me remind you that this decision comes on top of our existing policy to deny visas to those who are involved in human rights abuses or political oppression in ukraine. and it is also on top of other steps that the unite