World, my friend. The fact is the United States is doing an amazing amount with some handicaps, i might add. A budget that is getting smaller, not bigger. Having to hold back on what we are doing in certain countries. Having to cut in certain places what weve been doing to try to help people educate or change or provide health care or do some of the things we do. I think you need to look carefully at this kind of talk about the action that produces the differential. President putin didnt decide to do what he did in crimea because of something the United States did or didnt do. He decided to do it because he could and it was in his interest. Again and he didnt feel he would pay a price. Trust me, i totally blame Vladimir Putin. If there is bloodshed its because of Vladimir Putin, but we have to deter. You have to measure price in certain ways. Is he paying a price . His soldiers are not able to travel to some of their various places. They are losing money. Ruble has gone down 7 . There
It doesnt have to be this way. But it will be this way if russia continues down this provocative path. In my conversation yesterday with foreign minister lavrov, we agreed to meet soon in europe. Next week. With ukraine, and our european partners, to discuss deescalation deescalation, demobilization, inclusivity, support for elections, and constitutional reform. And it is not in our judgment a small matter that russia has agreed to sit in this fourparty status with ukraine at the table in an effort to try to forge the road ahead. Between now and then we have made it clear that russia needs to take concrete steps to disavow separatist actions in eastern ukraine. Pull back its forces outside the country which they say they have begun to do with the movement of one battalion and demonstrate that they are prepared to come to these discussions to do what is necessary to deescalate. So russia has a choice. To work with the International Community to help build an independent ukraine that cou
We ended up jumping in syrias lap. We now sit in the back of the bus as iran and russia really drive policy in syria. One of your assistants was up here a few weeks ago and made some really reckless comments about a military strategy, if you will, in syria, and said that they would brief us. Weve had no briefing. Its been two weeks. And as the chairman mentioned, instead of that we read about something last night in the wall street journal relative to disputes between you and the pentagon. And i do hope today that you will lay out clearly for us in this open setting what our strategy is in syria and hopefully its not just allowing people to kill each other. Since chemical weapons were used another 50,000 people have been killed. Barrel bombs are being dropped indiscriminately on populations there. Assad is dragging his feet on alleviating the chemical weapons, because you knows that that prolongs his survival and continues to allow us, russia, and iran, to prop him up. So i know there
Thanks to both of you for your questions this week. We appreciate you being here. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] there is no question that congress routinely administrations routinely do not speak the truth to the American Public. It is not just about inaccuracies on terms of what the Affordable Health care act would do. It is the absence of speaking the truth about where we are. Where are we . We are now at a standard of living the same of what we had in 1980. Family unfunded obligations and. Debt of 1. 1 million per family. So thatd to be spoken we can build a context for the tough things that are going to come. The biggest problem that i see with congress is the denial of reality. Percentstill be a good and deny reality. We all have flaws. We all deny realities in our lives every day. We do not want to face them. We have not had the leadership in this country a long time. That was stand up and tell the
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