sanctions brought down by the united states, what more should the obama administration do? reporter: arthel, there aren t any too much sanctions imposed on russia. we ve imposed sanctions against certain individuals close to putin and a handful of small banks. but there are not top sanctions. more can be done. for example denying gas to russia, which is highly dependent to develop the energy sources. there is more that can be done economically and politically that we will not tolerate land grabs. and china and russia are doing business as usual, signing an agreement for a $400 billion natural gas exchange. reporter: that is exactly right. it is worth pointing out, for russia to honor the deal, they ll have to do some serious drilling in siberia and depend on the western technology to get that natural gas out of the ground. maybe that is where we step
in less than a wee ukraine s crimea has probably something to do with local militia groups, protection groups, bret, but certainly, there is a russian military presence down there, and the question and the concern is where is it all leading? another jarring wake-up call in ukraine. armed men take over the civilian airport in the semiautonomous region of crimea, and where russia bases its black sea fleet. russia says its personnel there are doing business as usual, protecting their black sea fleet. ukraine s interim government jumped to declare this a violation of the terms of the agreement. we have the fact there are disguised military from the russian black sea fleet illegally conducting their actions in ukrainian territory in the republic of crimea.
would have been legitimate enough. every was sent home who worked fr state government at noon today. he diplomat take it which seems to me that he is going to come out swinging. he could have said the roads are too bad. this is a way for him to show doing something he normally does. this is part of his routine and he is able to say this is part of what being the governor is, i m going to answer questions without causing a national media circus. he is able to do in a way that says i m just doing business as usual. it certainly has much more implications and he knows that. thank you very much. this is on camera even though it is a radio show. we know when he sits in the chair and when the interview starts. that is the room he is going to be. we anticipate the news director
for the next hour. i think it s important, the governor had to declare a state of emergency today in new jersey for snow. he had an out if he wanted to get out of this. everyone was sent home at noon today, but he didn t take it which is code i think for he s going to come out swinging. i think that s right. he could have said the roads are too bad, let s bag it. but this is a way for him to show him doing something he normally does. this is part of his routine. he can say this is part of what being the governor is. i m going to answer your questions without causing a national media circus. he can do it in a controlled setting in a way that says i m doing business as usual but it s it has much more implications and he knows that. thanks very much, chris frates. we are also this is going to be on camera even though it is a radio show. we will bring the governor to
the blow back from this thing is greater because others don t have to accept the united states doing business as usual. we know preemptively that you will have this attitude, but president obama is going to sweden today. he was originally supposed to be going to have a li lateral meeting from russia. it could have been handy given what we are trying to do in syria. regardless of what the actual information is important, you may think it s not, may think it s not, the repercussions have been serious. i don t want to be dismissive, but this is one of the me something i don t know stories. air has oxygen in it. hello. you were bugging me and i believe that. you do that always. i believe that all the time. this is not i m not saying this is a great situation. this is an awful situation. this made it more difficult for us to do a lot of things. i am not dismissing that. what should we be doing?