talked to said, and you can see in this video, that this exchange took place without firing a shot, without things getting too heated. it was just conducted in a very businesslike fashion, and the exchange occurred and both sides walked away thinking, well, maybe we can do business with one another down the road. and this is something that, frankly, administration officials say will have to happen in the coming months and years as the u.s. winds down the war in afghanistan, as this one official said, you don t negotiate peace with your friends, you do that with your enemies. and so, this episode may have been sort of a first test case to see whornether or not the u. and taliban can work with each other in terms of doing the mechanics of winding down the war in afghanistan. you are right, as you were just saying in that setup, there is sort of a mess that the white house has on its hands at this point when it comes to the notification of key lawmakers up on capitol hill, dianne feinstei
working with international institutions has given a chance for the ukrainian people to choose their future. without us firing a shot. similarly, despite frequent warnings from the united states and israel and others, the iranian nuclear program steadily advanced for years, but at the beginning of my presidency we build a co built a coalition and now we have an opportunity to resolve our differences peacefully. the odds of success are still long. we reserve all options to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon but for the first time in a decade, we have a very real chance of achieving a breakthrough agreement, one that is more effective and durable
international order and working with international institutions has given a chance for the ukrainian people to the choose their future. without us firing a shot. similarly, despite frequent warnings from the united states and israel and others the iranian nuclear program steadily advanced for years. but at the beginning of my presidency, we built a coalition to impose sanctions on the iranian economy while extending the hand of diplomacy to the iranian government. and now we have an opportunity to resolve the differences peacefully. the odds of success are still lo long, and we reserve all options to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but for the first time in a decade, we have a real chance of achieving a breakthrough agreement, one that
of cheering people in moscow s red square. the rally marked an emotional high point for the russian president and countrymen who are angry about the territory they lost at the fall of the soviet union. while putin boasted they reclaimed crimea without firing a shot, a group of soldiers reportedly stormed a ukrainian military office in simferopol, killing a ukrainian soldier. russian troops are along ukrainian s eastern border, with fears they might try to annex other areas with ethnic russian populations. the u.s. is condemning moscow s move. secretary of state kerry said, anger over the end of the cold war doesn t legitimize its actions in ukraine. president obama and german chancellor merkel spoke by phone and urged putin to take a diplomat path. obama, merkel and leaders of other group of seven economies will meet next week to discuss additional sanctions. legal news starting with the terror trial of osama bin laden s son-in-law. the judge in the case has ruled
edward snowden. even though obama s giving every concession to this man, he s looking to embarrass him and he s doing so on the world stage. your reaction? it s clear to me that putin not only has the upper hand from a to z, but he s enjoying himself. he enjoys thumping at obama. putin is the big bad russian wolf. and obama is a bunny rabbit. let s face the facts here. putin, without firing a shot, managed to seize crimea, he is never going to give it back there is nothing we will do to make him give it back. what will we do about that? virtually nothing. all this nonsense about sanctions and all that stuff. it s not going to happen in a meaningful way because europeans won t stick with it. they don t have the money for freedom. i d like to make one point.