the talent these individuals have. >> shawn, david, thank you very much. kate? >> thanks, chris. also new this morning. fiery words from russian president vladimir putin. he declared kiev is to blame for troubles in ukraine on his russian television show. a marathon kind of press conference that he had. he also said russia did not plan to annex crimea from ukraine. this all comes as foreign minister for ukraine and russia meet in geneva to try and establish a diplomatic framework to calm the tensions there. joining us to discuss, christiane amanpour, host of cnn's international "amanpour" and you can see"amanpour" at 2:00 p.m. on cni.