was responsible for this, the white house very late last night put out a statement saying, you know, that regardless of what the facts end up proving, this is all happening within the context of russian training, russian arms supply and russia now needs to -- >> it was almost the exact opposite -- it was like the mirror image of the statement putin put out. >> let's take it back a moment to poroshenko, obama and putin on d-day in normandy. that was the big day of the promise that we were going to de-escalate and there could be a cease-fire. for putin now to be saying let's have a cease-fire is the height of hypocrisy. >> i want to back up 48 hours. 48 hours ago, wednesday evening the president announces new sanctions against russia and a lot of the -- without european help this time. basically merkel and cameron were on board but france and italy were not. so the u.s. went alone. they wanted to try to get everybody on.