if i were vladmir putin i would say, i'm winning. if a response as tepid as this is the best the united states can do, as putin keeps pushing and pushing and pushing the limits into eastern ukraine and consolidating his grip on crimea, anyone in the world, particularly vladmir putin, would say that his strategy of what we call, political warfare is being very, very effective and there is no reason why he shouldn't continue because he is ahead of the power curve. >> the "new york times" give us interesting perspective, kt, why potentially what general scales is mapping out is coming to fruition. and what "the new york times" said over the weekend the president more or less decided he will never have a constructive relationship with vladmir putin and really turn towards a, a policy of containment if you will, to try to just make sure he down do more damage. what do you think of that? >> i think this is the administration's spin. their argument is, look, history is on our side. vladmir putin is playing a losing game over time. he is bein

our own samantha bee investigates the next stop. >> vladmir putin and nextation of crimea shocked the world and foreign policy nerds like andrew are concerned that russia will continue to illegal expand the borders. >> >> we're seeing only the ginling. it's quite scary. >> who is it most scary for? the countries that are scared are the ones in the neighborhood. kazakhstan and caucuses at large. >> i don't care about any of knows countries because they are kind of like the same to me. what about our country. should we be afraid? >> i the most troubling part is we don't know what putin wants. he says he is defending ethnic russians. they could be any anywhere. >> what i'm hearing is it could happen here. >> no way. >> give me some odds. >> i think we're talking about astroid hitting the earth. one in a couple trillion. >> what you are saying is it could happen here. >> that's not when i'm saying. you already give met odds. >> can't take it back. too late go to the package. >> it could happen here. >> so i headed to where piewton is most likely to invade next a far away place where russi

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next, vladmir putin next gamble. >>> the box office file you e pileup of christian-themed movies and why there is all this interest right now. more "money" coming up. ♪ melissa: from the u.s. to every corner of the globe money has been flying around the world starting in crimea where russian president vladmir putin has big plans to create a gambling zone. casinos are only allowed in four special areas in russia, all of them far away from the capitol. crimea will become the fifth such zone. the russian government believes the move will help bring much-needed funds into the region. i bet. >>> over to saudi arabia where they are constructing the world's tallest building. the kingdom tower will soar half a mile into the skies. it will cost over a billiondollars to build and use over 80,000 tons of steel, wow. >>> land negotiate u.k. where some of the country's top bankers have been stripping for a good cause. execs from the likes of icap and citigroup took part in a short film that was never supposed to be made public. one scene has them standing up during a pitch meeting, stripping them

politicalization, respect for rule of law, respect for human rights, all the things frankly anathema to vladmir putin. these are examples where we see in the latest crisis putin professed saying concern about the welfare of ethnic russians, or russian speakers or whatever phrase you want to use in crimea and in ukraine when he doesn't give a damn about the welfare of russians living inside russia itself. so the paradox i think is quite striking the situation inside russia perhaps focused an as much given current crisis in russia is getting you letterry by the day. we were seeing legislation consideration of blogsers with more than three thousand visitors a day. possible travel ban on police enforcement and law enforce manner authorities. further penalties for participating in unsanctioned demonstration or publishing information that is deemed as harmful to the russian government or the russian military. mr. durof, left the country, latest among many russians who decided that the situation is untenable for them to stay there. the second highest number of asylum-seekers comes from russia. professors, g

vladmir putin. yes, i met with him a lot during the president six get out to know him very well. his a good relationship throughout. >> jon: i guess the lesson here is if you visit the bush gallery you need not spring for the audio tour. [ laughter ] yeah that's this lady she's the head of germany. they called her angela, i called her angela. i don't speak german. [ laughter ] anyway, ahuboop.! here is tony blair. english guy with an italian first name. never got. that boop again. it's a tour i should have boop! what do professional art critics think of this? >> when i first shaw his paintings i was sure i would hate them but this there was something innocent, sincere earnest almost childlike. >> jon: that's our man, sincere, honest, almost childlike two term president when did he start painting? he called it communicating through his art second love notes of sorts through his familyth very disciplined so he comes up and works every single day and which is he why can dough portraits of bob the cat that are so good. [ laughter ] >> jon: does it sound to anyone else like they are t

prior to the crimean crisis....russian president vladmir putin cut the price of nat gas for ukraine as part of a larger financial agreement between the two countries. those close ties fueled outrage and eventually led to the outsting of ukrainan president viktor yanukovych. the economy is fragile as a result of the conflict. it has received aid packages from europe and the u.s. to help keep the economy steady. greek bonds are making a comeback. the 3 and 5 year bonds will be issued by june according to the finance minister of greece. the wall street journal reports-- the bond sale could help the nation raise up to 5 billion dollars by the end of the year. it's the first issuance of long-term bonds since the country was bailed out.greece has lost about a quarter of its gdp during the 6 year long recession. pensions are in peril in the city of detroit. emergency city manager kevyn orr is proposing steeper cuts to pensions. his plan leaves retired firefighters and police officers with a choice of recieving 10% less money to stop creditors from getting their hands on art work at the detroi

russian president vladmir putin says the escalating clashes have ukraine on "the brink of civil war." it's a big week for big banks. today brings early-morning earnings from goldman sachs and morgan stanley. on wednesday-- bank of america reported a loss. the bank blamed slowing revenue and mounting legal costs.recently b of a also agreed to $584 million settlement over mortgage-backed securities. b of a shares fell 2% percent to $16 dollars yesterday. bitcoin's mt gox may soon close its virtual doors. mt gox asked a tokyo court for permission to liquidate after its plan for revival was rejected.the exchange filed for bankruptcy protection in february, saying it may have lost about 850- thousand bitcoins - worth around $454 million - due to hacking.later it found 200- thousand of the lost bitcoins. ceo mark karpeles is also likely to be investigated for his role in the collapse. general motors moves to soften the blow of recall lawsuits. the automaker has asked a bankruptcy court to bar plantiffs from proceeding with recall lawsuits that were filed before gm went bankrupt in 2009. fau

>> when he first met vladmir putin, bush appeared to suggest he could read him like a book. >> i looked the man in the eye. i was able to get a sense of his soul. >> but his rendering of the russian president shows a poker faced putin, more enigmatic, harder perhaps to predict. his hobby is an improbable departure for a texas guantanamo that brought such macho swagger to the presidency. he paints every day, gets a lesson every week and says his inspiration came from his great hero, sir winston churchill. >> i paint a lot. as you know, i'm a driven person. i want to get better. i want to learn as much as i possibly can so long as i'm able to paint. so i have studied art for the first time in my life and a whole new world has opened up. >> this is his presidential selvie. when asked for his favorite work, it's his father, george herbert walker bush, a man he calls a gentle soul and who taught him the value of friendship and diplomacy. george w. bush says he can only paint these portraits because he got to know the leaders so intimately. it's tempting to read this whole exhibit as a critic

. >> vladmir putin announcing he is pulling some troops off of the ukraine border.f through it would be a welcome first step but ukraine said it could be a rotation of soldiers this as russian prime minister becomes the highest ranking official from moscow from the annex crimea began pouring into mainland ukraine. >> millions of people it will finally start to feel like spring today. >> don't get too excited because you could be bracing for wild weather. maria molina is here with details. >> you are right. these warm temperatures are going to help. good news is warm-up in the eastern half of the country. high temperatures today in the 70s across the southeast. upper 50's in new york city. in cleveland wonderful 66 degrees for a high. you are going to remain relatively warm especially across the those highs steady in the 70s. in raleigh, north carolina at 80 degrees. this is in advance of the next storm system. it starts with texas and kansas and into missouri. take a look at what happens midweek wednesday. a widespread risk of storms. the risk for severe storm conti

vladmir putin is denying russian involvement in the ukraine. are we going to take his word for it? steve sent any centoanni has th latest. >> they continue to hold positions inside the ukraine. president obama talked by phone with vladimir putin and according to the white house the president expressed grave concern about russian government support for the actions of armed pro russian accepseparatists an encouraged them to use his influence. but the kremlin gave a different report on the conversation saying the problem is kiev is not taking account the interests of ukrainian and assumption that russia's meddling is based on information. they are further threatening sanctions but not saying which sanctions or when. >> we are working with our partners and assessing for ourselves what response we may choose. but i don't have an announcement at this time when it comes to further sanctions. >> the united nations today is saying it has numerous reports of vote rigging and they have made false claims about their safety in order to justify a russian incursion. >> steve centanni live for us.

. >> the goal is not to go after vladmir putin personally but to keep going against the economy. with the financial markets down hovering at all time lows. they continue a full list of targets and new sanctions will be announced later today. critics say his actions are too little too late. >> as we thank the administration on so many policies they are always late after the point in time when we could have made a difference in the outcome. i am very concerned. >> even as he announced the new sanctions package president obama says quote we don't know yet whether it is going to work. >> steve sent any live for us this morning. >>> the civil war comes to the u.s. there are growing concerns to homeland security secretary johnson. he expressed worry americans and other westerners who trained with terrorists in war corn -- war torn countries may slip back into the u.s. >> we are concerned about syria's foreign fighters people being recruited by extremists there. we have been sharing information tracking these individuals. >> johnson says he believes some of the individuals are already b

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vladmir putin put this in in 2000 it made ours look simple. within a couple years re new -- revenues doubled hong kong even though dirt poor 60 years ago now booming. >> you are fighting history pushing this. the first -- >> existence is fighting history. we are the only invented nation on earth. it was part of our tradition to fight what everyone else does. >> i look through all of this stuff how four-pages including the instructions today it's 176 pafrjs. the tax rate one percent in today's dollars if you make 500,000 dollars. six percent you made $11 million. come a long way. >> went berserk wlm from the beginning because of the first world war. they discovered income tax is a money machine. they are not going to give it up eedz i easily. let's go have a simplified code. it would be a huge step in the right direction. it revolves around this piece let's start all over again. to show how stupid is dave camp who is leaving the house of representatives he tried to simplify the code using the existing code the books you have there and 1,000 pag

whatsoever, and no relationship with russia despite the president's, well, intimmation, that he and vladmir putinere, communicating well, if not as brothers, at least as long lost cousins. turns out they don't much like each other at all. >> i do think they're not the best of friends. i do think as you say it is awfully hard to shape events. russia is right on the border of ukraine. it is in a better position to shape events. than we are simply because it has these forces there. we do have a role to play i think in trying to get the various parties at least to deescalate some of the tensions in the hope that you will not get a flare-up where one group kills another. that serves as pretext for the russians moving in with a greater degree of force which of course is a risk, if right-wing ukrainians kill russians who are demonstrating in their own passionate way, you could easily get this or you could get russians killing ukrainians, adding, adding fuel to the fire as well. lou: you know, you remind me it is my job also to point out that we've had a remarkably small number of casualtyies and killed,

russian president vladmir putin is warning that ukraine is on the brink of a civil war. the comment came as ukraine's military launched its first formal action against pro- russian separatists, who have taken control of government buildings in as many as ten cities. ukrainian troops reclaimed the country's airport after a clash with gunmen yesterday. ukraine's acting president declared that an "anti-terrorist operation" is under way, to stop ukraine from being torn into pieces. american intelligence officials are feverishly poring over a new video which shows the largest known gathering of al- qaeda since 9-11. what is especially troubling is that the meeting took place in the open... and that america didn't find out about it, in time to launch a drone strike. >> quite an extraordinary video, the leader who is also the number to of all quaeda worldwide addressing over 100 fighters somewhere in the yemen taking a big risk in doing this. >> the intelligence committee should be survived surprise that they assembled together and somehow they didn't notice. >> the video shows

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after president obama just announced a new rounds of moves against russia targeting friends of vladmir putinn our old ed henry pressed the president on his foreign policy doctrine and whether it had any teeth, the president appeared displeased. >> there are complimentary pieces as well about my foreign policy but i'm not sure you ran them. the question i think i would have is, why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force? after we've just gun through a decade of war at enormous costs to our troops and to our budget. >> a little wipe at fox news channel there at the top. it wasn't just our journalists notices. al-jazeera white house correspondent tweeted this. why is it that everyone is so eager to use military force? ask clearly agitated president at suggestion of weak obama doctrine and foreign policy. so why is the president responding this way? was the question out of bounds? >> it stings. a hurt dog barks. he hates it because it's true. the implication that he is read of the world is weak. have you met a single person who is eager to use military force anywhere? he went to

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they saw the cocky vladmir putin. they tried to make much of the fact that a-ha he admitted russians were behind crimea and they are following the same playbook in ukraine. they were troubled by two things one he started about talking eastern and southern ukraine as a term that goes back 300 years when this whole area west to moldavia and all the way east to the russian border were part of russia. >> ifill: they call that new russia. >> warner: that's what that means. that was the term. he said something about [speaking russian] it was given away in 1920's. why? only god knows. so it sounds to people in the administration as if he is laying that sort of historical. >> ifill: again. >> warner: race nal once again. >> ifill: marn get warner, thanks always for clearing it up for us. >> warner: my pleasure. >> woodruff: nine months after it became the largest city in the u.s. to declare bankruptcy, detroit is drawing closer to a deal on how to protect current and former city workers from deep pension cuts. until recently,

however he wants the russian government, vladmir putin to use its influence to remove those groups. depending on how they react, how the russians react to that and what kind of influence they can apply in ukraine, depend if the u.s. continues sanctions. liz: one more headline here. there has been an offer according to the president, amnesty to the militants who are pro-russian. he said the russian side signed on to that. appears the now the tensions are calming down but he says levels of credence he puts into it. rich: a very, very skeptical president obama. he says military force is not on the table. liz: well the technology sector which has been crumbling over the past month with some internet names getting hit the hardest kind of came back today. one analyst says investors will find some bargains in what tech rubble is left. he is here to tell you where next. rich: plus sandisk reporting record first quarter results and the street seems to love it with the stock up more than 10% and more than 15 analysts raising their price targets today. we'll ask sandisk's ceo what he is seeing

sometimes have to take tough steps in order to convince some of the player, in this case assad and vladmir putin, that they had no choice but to go to diplomacy. john kerry was much more outspoken about this. he said back then in 2012 quite bluntly that in order to get assad to the table and he could have said in order to get putin to accept it, you would have to work hard at organizing the opposition, and you might have to give lethal arms. having covered this from the beginning, there were forces who could have been trusted, who could have been vetted and in order to get assad to the table especially as this thing develops with all the casualties, you had to take a lead role in organizing and making sure that weapons went to the right people. instead by basically hanging back the president has in effect allowed the situation to develop where there's a new afghanistan on the mediterranean. and there's a real terrorist threat all through eastern syria and western iraq that could have been confronted early on. >> ifill: nick burns, to what degree did the white house or administration prioritize i

. >> honda after warning on results taking sanctions to the very top the west targeting of vladmir putin's inner circle. and barack obama heading to the philippines with plans for a stronger military alliance. we do have concerns about rising defaults. three of china's top four banks still managing to boost profits there as well. >> we have double digit profit increases very interesting to see that given the fact that bad loans are on the rise. the biggest banks last week and today and tomorrow finishing up the reporting season for those chinese financials. on friday we heard from china construction banks the second biggest by market value in china a 10% gain in first quarter net income. 10.5 billion and it a 10% gain in first quarter net income, $so.5 billion. and it comes as lending margins increase. that's been the consistent story for all of these chinese banks. they've increased their loan margins. that helps them boost profits. in the case of china construction bank, it's the biggest profit increase in a rear. rival agricultural bank also out with results. even though it reported hig

he thinks that vladmir putin as the kid with the bored expression slouching in the back of the classroom. news for the law professor. that kid is smarter than you are. he's bored because you bore him. he's about to eat your lunch. this is part of a broader foreign policy issue for this administration, michael? >> brett has a way with words but i think he has sort of a very solid point there which is, you know, we talk as we discussed last time, we talk a lot about norms and principles. we talk a lot about deescalation. we don't want to see the situation in ukraine erupt into further violence but basically, principles have no meaning if you don't act on them. deter ens doesn't work without action to show countries like russia that you're serious in your willingness to commit further resources, further force to your policy there. and right now, i think there's a credibility problem. you know, does russia really believe us when we say that we'll increase sanction or say we'll take more serious steps or do they think we're prepared to put commercial interests first or to really sort of walk

vladmir putin, for all of his ridiculous behavior this year is not threatening to fire missiles at anybodywe know missile defense might make him a little angry. that might make us feel good at moment for pay back, but that is not the kind of thing that will deter him from going into ukraine. >> reporter: the white house added in a statement, quote, the united states deployed missile defense radar to turkey. employed missile defense capable ships in and will install another interceptor site in poland that wail will be operational in 2013. in other words, president obama did not scrap missile defense in europe but shifted it to other systems the sm-3 system. putin is using conventional ground troops, not missiles to threaten his neighbors. jon? >> jennifer griffin at the pentagon. thank you. jenna: hillary clinton is at center of speculation of a possible white house run another democratic woman is getting a lot of media attention. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren repeatedly run if she will run in 2016 but she keeps saying no but people keep asking. howard kurtz, you say the media won'

. >> seems obama administration is realizing that russia doesn't really care if vladmir putin is condemnedntury behavior in the 21st century. now the head of the cocae conglomeration said that the voice of america on a.m. radio would not be renewed. he said of the voice of america, it's as if they broadcast from the underworld or a world that no longer exists. i view these stations as spam on our airways. he is the only russian journalist black listed by the u.s. over his role in promoting the annexation of crimea and in utter defiance of president obama's recent comment that r h russia is only a recent power, he said it's the only country that could turn the u.s.a. into radioactive ash. the silencing of voice of america in russia is an important tool as u.n. ambassador said yesterday. russia has a virtual monopoly on information. >> -- come barreded by russian disinformation and propaganda while ukrainians are being enticed by excitement and violence. >> the director of the voice of america said that the blackout is very limited in scope. >> it's not really much of a blackout. what the mo

in our reporting to the pentagon, in general what message do experts think this is sending to vladmir putin and to ukraine? >> reporter: well, 150 u.s. troops doesn't sound like a lot but they, and what is being, is notable that they're not being deployed to ukraine. the only thing that has been deployed to ukraine so far, jenna, is vice president joe biden who was armed with several million dollars in non-lethal aid. today's, today russia's foreign minister, sergey after love, accused the u.s., quote, running the show in ukraine and instigating unrest and tension there. in the u.s. there are divisions between the white house and state department we're told about what the u.s. should offer ukraine. >> ukrainian interim president came to this country and asked for weapons to help the defend his country and the munitions to support him and we denied him that request. that was absolutely a terrible decision on our part. >> reporter: meanwhile the borders.show no sign of pulling and the pentagon has said that the 600 u.s. troops being sent to poland and the baltic states will remain there until

will words alone stop vladmir putin from another land grab? into that. >>> also a leopard on the loose, taking a chunk out of one person as others tried to fight the big cat off. that doesn't look like fun. we'll show you how this ends. [shouting] if i told you that a free ten-second test could mean less waiting for things like security backups and file downloads you'd take that test, right? what are you waiting for? you could literally be done with the test by now. now you could have done it twice. this is awkward. go to comcastbusiness.com/ checkyourspeed. if we can't offer faster speeds or save you money we'll give you $150. comcast business built for business. jenna: right now the u.s. promising $50 million to help ukraine with political and economic reforms. there are no signs russia is complying with its recent agreement to curb violence in eastern ukraine. vice president biden is wrapping up a two-day visit there saying -- >> no nation has the right to simply grab land from another nation. no nation has that right, and we will never rec

most of the statement said vladmir putin and his friends made today are outright lies. lies are fairly easy. there is a much more serious that in the case of disinformation at natalie wrote years ago, disinformation is mostly true. that is to say you create a set of expectations and then you introduce one or two falsehoods and that has enormous consequences and that requires enormous resources to find out it is easy to do with these blatant lies. but do not think that blake and my sanity on challenge out there. third, as natalie grant road, dealing with the question of disinformation and efforts to influence, one has to realize that this is a long-term problem, that you cannot get in and dip out. the united states is increasingly short-term in its approach and that means we come in and don't see what's been going on and we don't understand how much we've been manipulated already by having ignored the first four and a half back of a five act play. what is going on in eastern ukraine today is nothing especially new in some regards. in other ways it is a serious change and

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russian president vladmir putin had a four hour question and answer session with the public with a brigadef journalists. he admitted first time men in unmarked uniforms last month, they were russian. he said his actions in crimea were partly the result of nato putting what he called the squeeze around russia. he called allegations of russia troops in out eastern ukraine right now nonsense. but he didn't rule out russian troops getting involved in the future there as his parliament has already given the authorization. >> translator: the federation council of russia granted the president the right to use military force in ukraine. i very much hope that i will not have to exercise this right and that with political and diplomatic means that will succeed in resolving all the acute, if not the acutest problems in ukraine today. >> reporter: jenna, the latest development is that aeroflot, which is russia's national carrier, has issued a statement to ukrainian passengers saying basically, if you're a man between the ages of 16 and 60, don't think about going to russia right now unless you have a

vladmir putin understands two things. he understands weakness and power.ng with a former kgb case agent and powerful, muscular reaction by the united states in confidence with the france, britain and germany i think would put a stop to silliness by mr. putin and doing a better job arming the ukrainian military. it would completely reverse this media war we seal to be losing, jenna. jenna: let me ask you about another story we're taking a look at. in context with our relationship to russia, the pentagon plans to remove 50 nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles doing this, they're not destroying them. they're just moving them. >> right. jenna: to fall in line with the 2010 s.t.a.r.t. treaty we have with russia which is all about disarmiment. >> right. jenna: what do you think about that? it is a treaty, general scales, but the timing of it? >> comp, jenna, the optics on this are terrible. look, while the administration may see these two separate initiatives, the bottom line is that global marketplace of ideas, people tend to con great these things

yesterday there were reports that russian president vladmir putin had said he ordered a gradual withdrawalnato today, there's still a full combat force of 35,000 to 40,000 russian troops near the ukrainian border. from our sources here we have been getting some reports of a withdrawal of russian troops but officials telling us that could be a troop rotation and yes, u crepians also getting economic hit from russia. natural gas monopoly which supplies about half of ukrainian needs in natural gas saying today they will cancel the discount they used to give this country and they would hike prices by as much as 44% and they would also call in a whole bunch of unpaid bills from ukraine so again, the cold war between ukraine and russia heating up on several fronts. back to you. jon: keeping an eye on it for us, thanks. jenna: new health care law and a report shows health care spending rising to the fastest pace in a decade raising some concerns that it could become even more expensive for you to see a doctor. how will obamacare factor into this? especially when it comes to future costs for you a

russian president vladmir putin warning ukraine could fall into a civil war if the conflict continuesan forces launched action against several eastern cities. this is ramping up that a lot of people have been worried about. markets once again are bouncing nicely today and that happened yesterday after a very choppy session. saw the nasdaq twerk with correction levels. in other words, it was almost down 10% today and yesterday. joining us right now is the executive vice president and chief executive officer in chicago. our guest host stephen roach is still with us. he's a former chairman of morgan stanley asia. i'm start with you, jack, i guess our 2014 is going to be sort of characterized by what we saw in the first quarter. is that your view, tough to make headways? kind of a consolidation year after the big gains in 20 lean? but nothing worse than that? >> well, we've gone from a lousy winter. we have no earnings to speak of. revenues are tepid and get the markets are muddleing along. that's with all the geopolitical problems. so i think that we will have a little more upside as we