about an event that there was a there was a spine but there was also that that outburst from victoria newland the assistant secretary of state for european affairs. making a derogatory reference about the eu how did you take that creature. well is very dynamic and said let me put it that way and i think it's not the way in which an alleged ally should speak about each other even if they believe they're talking in private than it did that really ok so what did that really really affect relations or what. there are people saying well that was just a moment of now i was extremely on elegance and on how full i think we were more surprise that the us government is not using encrypted files but on top of all the revelations of the nsa i don't think this is that much more damage i think it underlines the need for your leadership and i think we should've taken a more proactive in unified position these are ukraine and in that sense i can imagine american frustration. ok jamie what what do you think i mean was it was that he did that today that relations ms newman's elders. the bottom line is in the r

there has been an intercept of a conversation between you and victoria newland about which politicians you thought were suitable for government in kiev as well. has president putin got a point when he says the west has been playing power games working out what it wants for kiev in terms of government here? >> not really. and first of all, i can't talk about any alleged conversations but i'll make very clear our role has been to support the will of the ukrainian people. that's what the administrations were about. three months of people standing out in the bitter cold, in the desire to reset their democracy, to reaffirm their democracy. going forward we're going to support whatever outcome emerges. >> does this crisis take on another leg? do we see russian enter veenint in the east, in the south? >> it's hard to make predictions at this point about what moscow's next move will be? i've been impressed with what president yatsenyuk has done. they say that ukraine needs to stay as a single country. >> squeeze one more. mr. mccain was there and a bipartisan delegation came to kiev this weeke

a leaked phone call from assistant secretary of state for european affairs, victorino and -- victoria newland. this came right at a tense moment in the crisis between the government and the opposition. what the phone call said was she negotiated or tried to negotiate a deal to end the standoff between the government and the opposition. and that negotiation, she used an expletive to describe the european union. it was not very nice of her. in the end, the takeaway from this call were that the u.s. was very heavily involved in trying to negotiate an end to the crisis which is probably a good thing. also, that the russians were taping the phone calls of our u.s. ambassador to the ukraine and leaked them in an intelligence move. we should not over exaggerate the implications of that call. that's how this plummets he -- that's how diplomacy works. what they are supposed to be doing. they are trying to work things out and when no one's listening, they sometimes use expletives. no big deal. it led to a vulnerability that allowed the russians to accuse americans of outside interference. this is a can

talking phone call from assistant secretary of state for european affairs, victorino and -- victoria newlandhat the phone call said was she negotiated or tried to negotiate a deal to end the standoff between the government and the opposition. and that negotiation, she used an expletive to describe the european union. it was not very nice of her. in the end, the takeaway from this call were that the u.s. was very heavily involved in trying to negotiate an end to the crisis which is probably a good thing. were that the russians taping the phone calls of our u.s. ambassador to the ukraine and leaked them in an intelligence move. exaggerateot over the implications of that call. that's how this plummets he works. -- that's how this plummets he works. -- that's how diplomacy works. they are trying to work things out and when no one's listening, they sometimes use expletives. thatd to a vulnerability allowed the russians to accuse americans of outside interference. this is a canard. that's what we do. we do it and the russians do it and the eu does it and everyone interferes all the time. the ideas

servicemen to be shot dead this is the new state department spokesperson who took the place of victoria. newlandwho was the spokeswoman provocateur who are behind supporting the made on protests including the far right elements she is not functioning right now as a diplomat and she is not functioning right now as some sort of objective spokesperson this is a propaganda machine in the media war against russia u.s. official seem to be inventing the rules as they go along from flip flopping on their own principles depending on their current political focus to feeding an endless stream of misinformation while ignoring the need to explain not only highly questionable but also dangerous statements. are to washington d.c. and we spoke to iraq war veteran defense expert michael prysner he says the u.s. has simply been adding fuel to the fire of the ukrainian crisis from the very beginning and has no intention of slowing down. right away after this incident you know the u.s. government and the new government in ukraine were absolutely certain that this was an attack by the russian military and you know w

victoria nuland conversation i mean who's violating who's sovereignty here but. look one of my readers coined an absolutely fantastic expression kagen eight of newlands this is what we have in western ukraine you know it's the kagan family and the very famous new york still very influential. married to one of them and it's a new candidate so they think that they're going to conquer western ukraine and in fact blunder because when we have the fifteen billion this promised billion euro. rescue package for ukraine it's going to be in depth at slieve really for the foreseeable future for ukrainians who are going to get a you passport tomorrow and get great jobs like polish plumbers and romanian cocktail waitresses in paris this is not going to happen in the eastern ukraine because they are industrious to link to to russia they know what this means in terms of. under the conditions and that they called for by central bankers of ukraine in terms of destroying ukrainian industry very important why in your car which we do all his faults yes why he didn't sign d u agreement in the first place two reasons number one he knew that the rule destroyed ukrainian industry and nu