and you heard tony blinken say they're waiting basically for europe. stay stitched together with europe. they're not going to go beyond europe. it's too important to them to keep them unified even at the expense of doing some toughers things people want them to do. >> schieffer: the allies, the europeans are with us, but that's not entirely the case, is it? >> yeah, they want to have a little bit of a distance. i think -- i would like to hear what angle a merkel has to say much more than what the obama administration has to say. they're also going along with small targeted sanctions, but the stakes are a lot higher for europeans. russia's strength with europe is ten times russia's strength with the u.s. >> schieffer: he could also cut off the gas. >> he could cut off the gas and that might not seem as much of a problem as we go into spring and summer but come into winter he has the ability to make it very, very cold indeed, especially northern europe. so they, i think, would like to take little baby steps along the way and hope that that will have an i

the south braces for more twisters after a night of destruction; white house adviser tony blinken discusses the new u.s. sanctions against moscow; plus: charges of racism against an n-b-a owner... searching for new ways to measure the nation's and fresh evidence that high school graduation rates are on the rise. severe storms lined up again this afternoon across the south, and a tornado damaged some homes in tupelo, mississippi, but there were no initial reports of injuries. that's after at least 16 people were killed in three states on sunday, 14 of them in arkansas... >> oh wow, guys. >> woodruff: the sky over mayflower, arkansas, went from light to dark in an instant last evening. these storm chasers got too close for comfort to a half- mile-wide tornado. >> my ears are popping, we're in it right now, we're in the tornado" >> woodruff: from there, the twister moved down the road to nearby vilonia, north of little rock. >> as i was driving back i saw nothing but black, it was huge and i saw the rotation. >> woodruff: the tornado touched down off-and-on for almost 80 miles, leaving destruc

obama foreign policy, a conversation with the deputy national security adviser, tony blinken. and coming up empty, a u.s. effort to rejuvenate u.s. peace talks fails mine nonts after an optimistic beginning. >> our objective will be to achieve a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months. >> we didn't anticipate we were going to solve it during the course of a six or nine-month negotiation. >> we talk to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and plo executive committee member. then, our political panel studies the nuisances of campaigning for or against obamacare. this is "state of the union." >>> president obama is in malaysia, part of his four nation tour of asia. he has wanted to increase u.s. focus on that part of the world since taking office and other hot spots from ukraine to the middle east keep getting in way of the agenda. joining me now, tony blinken. >> looking alt this week, no trade deal with japan which the u.s. is pushing hard for. israeli-palestinian negotiations where the secretary of state has focused intensely for nine months fall p

the parties to reflect on where they are and think about the next steps they want to make. >> tony blinken, thanks so much. >>> for more on the foreign policy challenges facing president obama i sat down exclusively with former british prime minister tony blair. he issued an urgent warning about why the u.s. has to extinguish islamic ex trimism but first i asked him about ukraine. again, you've looked into putin's eyes, as did president bush. he's already taken crimea. he must sense enough weakness that he's not backing down, he's not following through on this truce of a kind. what do you think his end game in all this is? >> i think that's hard to guge. i think what you can say is that the idea that he has is of a resurgent russia obviously linking up with russian-speaking people in the vicinity of russia. i think it's hard to know what the end game is, but i'm absolutely sure that we're right to take a strong approach and to lay down some very clear messages and be prepared to back that up with action if necessary. now, i hope that -- as i say, i hope this can be resolved in a way that i

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