america s former top diplomat hillary clinton comparing putin to hitler, or at least strategies that vladamir putin is using strategies that hitler was using. the crisis in crimea spilled over into the states wednesday, a group of anti-russian protesters is attacked on this video on youtube. the ukrainian police eventually step in to keep the peace. tense and dangerous movements from the u.n. envoy, his convoy surrounded by pro russian gunman demanding he leave the region. he then seeks refuj in this coffee shop. i m in the cafe waiting for someone to get me out of here. the gunmen surrounded the shop with serry inside. he was eventually given safe passage outside and abandon his
does appear to be normal, except around these military installations. we were at another navy installation by the sea not far from here, and there were russians right across the street from the main gate of that navy base, but they were sort of hidden away. so if you drove up you wouldn t realize that there was a contingent of men in green, russians, whatever you want to call them, right across the street. meanwhile, however families were coming up, wives were coming up with food, with cigarettes, with drinks for their loved ones inside. so there are real pockets of tension. ben wedeman, be careful. thanks for joining us tonight. i want to dig deeper into how these negotiations play out with jill dougherty. also a kind of counterpart to
many people anxious on a personal level as they try to keep in touch with their loved ones inside these military installations but can t get through. we saw as a representative of the red cross try to get into the navy headquarters with medicine, with food, with water and they were stopped, anderson. and then the newly installed pro russian prime minister of crimea told cnn today that the descriptions on the ground in crimea have been overblown and the people of crimea are controlling the situation themselves. you re there. are the people of crimea controlling the situation them selves? is there truth to that? i have to say it s not a situation of chaos or disorder. in fact, outside of those areas around the military bases, it s amazing how normal life appears to be. people are going out, restaurants, bars, life really
is i want you to be able to respond to that. you re quite right. he sees it as his historic mission to collect the lands back together that he sees as russian. that mission predates his 2005 statement about the greatest geopolitical catastrophe. it doesn t mean he has a strategy, but he has a mission that he acts day to day. thank you for being my guest. thank you. up next, republican senator lindsay gram who links what s haping in ukraine and crimea to president bush s response to the benghazi attacks. dana bash caught up with senator graham on that. we ll be right back. can go 795 highway miles on a single tank. huh. so you could drive from los angeles all the way philadelphia with just three stops for fuel.
also jill doherty. it s good to have you on the program. obviously your announcement stunned a lot of people. you ve been working there for 2 1/2 years, clearly you re familiar with the perspective of r.t. america, and the kind of stories they put on the air. so why today? why today? i think a that s a good question. i think the coverage, as we re in this diplomatic standoff and during the escalation of this crisis in crimea, i think the propaganda nature of r.t. came out in full force. today, for example, i had an interview with ron paul. the only question that i asked, i asked many questions, i asked about the russian intervention, you know, he has a very anti-intervention approach. i asked him in the wake of escalation by the russian military how long, you know, how should we respond to this, how