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general wesley clark. general clarke, thanks so much for joining us. you saw the icy glares, staring at the toast between these two presidents putin and obama. it s sort of reminiscent of the battle days of the cold war. and you served in the u.s. military during those battle days. we re back to the geostrategic chess board and this is russia s move. they put a knight into the middle east, so to speak. a chess piece. they pole vaulted over turkey and now they ve got their base established and a lot of key, tanks, air defense, combat aircraft, doing drone reconnaissance and presumably soon starting to strike to support bashar assad sfwl but in the process of helping bashar assad which the u.s. is not too keen on but if they do help beat isis the u.s. would welcome that, right? well, you would think so. but there s a larger issue that has to be worked also because a lot of u.s. allies don t want iran to dominate the region. and this is really about russia
quite literally the pipeline for russia and so much exports of oil and gas to europe. this is right there, the footprint, the chess piece for russia. it goes right through ukraine. and of course, the new york times reporting this morning that angela merkel spoke to vladimir putin and told president obama that she believes putin has lost touch with reality. so, that s a little unsettling to read as you wake up this morning. all right, four minutes after the hour. in other news, another round of deadly winter weather slicing through the middle of the united states. at this hour, close to 100 million people are waking up to ice, snow and plunging temperatures, severe storms. right now there is a state of emergency in tennessee, alabama and texas. i just got word from someone on fit twitter that texas is a mess this morning. overall across the country, 2,000 flights, mostly in the northeast, have already been canceled today. in parts of kansas, the windchill overnight made it feel