this is my life i m fighting for. this is my life. and it s life. it is not entertainment. it is my life. marissa alexander was denied the same stand your ground defense that many others have received. what she was separated from her kids, and she was sent to prison. she finally got some good news last fall when an appeals court ordered a new trial. but now a stunning announcement from her prosecutor. state attorney angela corey says she ll try to put marissa alexander in prison for 60 years. 60 years. that s triple alexander s original sentence. it s essentially a life sentence if she is convicted at this upcoming trial. so marissa alexander fires a warning shot. no one is hurt, and she faces 60 years in prison? while others have shot and
worth it. but i think you ve got to get the nato alliance behind you what you re doing here. you also have to get the american people behind such a move and i suspect after iraq and afghanistan, there s no great desire to dispatch nato and u.s. troops to fight in ukraine. i agree. no troops. but there s a lot more you can do with troops. it starts with air power but that can quickly escalate. look, we ve fought two world war ins last century over europe. if we don t have a vested interest to try to deter or prevent this from escalating, i think i fear for our future generations of americans. general, thanks for coming in. thank you. the former nato supreme allied commander. coming up, does the russian president vladimir putin think he s winning in this showdown? i ll speak with one winning columnist who says yes.
doing it, we thought that was a useful signal. didn t deter the russians, though, from invading george ya on your watch. it does deter them from what their revised objective was, which was to go to tblisi and overturn the government. but you re saying they stopped at a certain point. they did. based on that experience they went into georgia, a neighboring country back in 2008 when george bush was president and, as you correctly point out, you remember a lot better than i do, there was a u.s. military aircraft that sent in humanitarian aid. but the russians, they were not really deterred from staying put. they didn t go to tblisi, obviously. they did not go to tblisi. and at the end of the day they withdrew back into abkhazia where the troops were. hold on a second. before you go to a couple other things. hold your thought for a second. carl, i know you ve been working this story as well. i know you have some good sources. angela merkel, there seems to be
don t know if there is any fighting yet. i haven t heard of any fighting taking place. the russians say they are being warmly welcomed by the ethnic russians. it s the ethnic russians and that s a large number, a percentage. but i truly think there are some actions that the u.s. can take but particularly more with the united nato and so what i hear you saying, general, is not what i m hearing obama administration officials saying. you re saying all options should be on the table including the military option. what i hear from members of congress, including critics of the president and from the obama administration, no one is thinking boots on the ground. i m not thinking boots on the ground at this stage. i think what we feed to be able to do is shore up this alliance from which we ve been a member since 1949. if it takes the president getting into a plane and going to brussels to convene showing that leadership, it, to me, is
russia. whether it s libya or syria or iran or ukraine, he sees western actions as uniquely attempting to undermine russian power. reporter: but putin could also be feeling emboldened in ukraine. mr. putin basically thinks that president obama and the americans and the europeans are kind of wimps. and that he can roll them when he sees fit. reporter: between that bravado and the alleged fear how far vladimir putin will take all of this. will he be the ruthless commander who pushes this further into ukraine and ignites a war or will he park his forces in crimea and stay there? wolf? brian todd reporting for us, thanks very much. in the latest issue of the nation magazine, steven cohen is sharply critical of the