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who s traveling with the president in japan. how is this complicating president obama s trip? reporter: it s obviously clear that the crisis in ukraine followed president obama on the trip to asia. the desire was to focus the pivot, the effort to refocus attention on this region of the world. but the president indicated by the remarks today he s playing close attention to vladimir putin in that region. he says it s going to be days, not weeks, where if he doesn t follow up with the commitment to deescalate the situation he will have new sanctions. he has new pessimism, doubting putin will back off in terms of that crisis. this is critical in terms of the way the asian nations are watching here. they re keeping a close eye on the way the u.s. counters russian aggression, and how they

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