baghdad to be a threat to u.s. contractors and other officials in baghdad. but to enter baghdad is one thing, but to control it and pose a major security risk is another. no doubt that the central government has a lot of a assets and strong military in and around the capital. so you can expect that if in fact the militants try to enter baghdad, it is going to be a fierce fight and the terrain of urban warfare would make it a bloody one as well. eamon mohyeldin, thank you so much from your vantage point. let me bring in congresswoman sanchez, a member of the armed services committee. thank you for having me on. as peter alexander reported the president said that all options are on the table and none of which includes boots on the ground, but would you support a air strike if that is the way forward? well, the first question that the american people have to ask
popular but a populist movement amongst some of these countries. they re all dealing with different issues but you ll find in many of these countries similar themes of corruption. lack of basic civil liberties. lack of economic development. and i think that s perhaps one of the common themes among all of those populations but as you mentioned, yeah, it s a very trying time 349 international community in so many is of these issues. particularly as far as the united states is concerned whether syria, the iran issue and now ukraine. one of the major factors is russia. that is something that the u.s. is going to have to deal with either in the international arena or bilaterally to try to resolve. indeed. ayman mohyeldin and michael reddman. thank you both. president obama is set to make an announcement on jobs and manufacturing at the white house. we ll go it there like as the cycle rolls on for tuesday, february 25th. tting out. purina dog chow light & healthy
solution to rogue behavior what is this part for ultimate policy? ultimately, i m not against talk. the problem is, talk has to come at the end of the process, rather than at the beginning. when ronald reagan sat down with mikhail gorbachev it became as a year to set the circumstances. bill clinton said the same thing, you have for set the right circumstances. the question is whether we re doing that right now, it may too late to exert pressure on the ukraine. but the question are we going to reach out to poland, the baltic states, estonia and lithuania to azerbaijan and show putin if he pushes countries around, he s going to lose out elsewhere in this policy game. ayman, how do you think things will play out here because ukraine cannot remain indefinitely in limbo? well, it really depends on the type of government ukraine is able to create in the coming weeks and months, actually. not only in the interim period which is going to set an important tone. and i doubt that you can se
superpower. but what the e.u., a world of 20 nations but the e.u. does not have a unified military. so what real power does it have in the world stage and over the crisis in ukraine. we start with nbc news foreign correspondent eamon mohyeldin. what power does the e.u. have here? do you think they can outpower putin on this? the big ig incentive and the tool at its disposal is the european union itself. that carries a lot of economic benefits. it incorporates a lot of potential economic invest in ukraine. it also lends ukraine diplomatic clout as part of the european union as a trading bloc. it doesn t have to be in the realm of security as we heard in the introduction.
but no doubt, the european union certainly can offer the ukraine european integration. and that would have tremendous benefits for the ukraine in the long run. not in the short term. in the long run it can certainly benefit from being closer to the european union with trade benefits and other economic benefits. but, michael, as part of their regional strategy, russia has purply steered ukraine away from the e.u. but that may prove to be a failing strategy. we could see a renewed momentum for ukraine to join the e.u. and is this really the big picture divide here. so, do you think it s possible for ukraine to seek e.u. membership and also maintain good relations with russia? well i agree with ayman. the problem is what happens in ukraine doesn t stay in ukraine. already today in russia, 400 people in moscow have been detained in the square near the kremlin because they were engaged in a pro-democracy