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.
down. and in none of these cases did we do that with our own military force, we used exactly the tools president obama is using now, diplomacy, alliances, and economic pressure. in the end, putin is going to back down and i think we can do it without firing a shot. joe, what do you make of the russians successfully testing an inner continental ballistic missile today? a previously planned test, and you heard leaders like republican bob corker on the foreign affairs, foreign relations committee, discount any connection between this test and the crisis in ukraine. i believe that s true. i believe you re starting to see putin start to look for a way out, trying to find a way to deescalate the crisis. icbm test was an unfortunate coincident. what about this, conservatives are going all out of their ways to make using these events to paint president obama as weak. take a listen to this. obama s the perception of him
second, bring mull dovea and georgia on the path to nato. and an act that targets individual russians who are responsible for these acts of aggression in the ukraine, economic sanctionss, throw them out of the g-8 and speak up. that is what reagan s greatest strength was. thatcher said reagan won the cold war without firing a shot and he did it by standing up to people. and you might run the clip of me in 2008 saying watch russia or when he said told romney the
if they were right then, what else are they right about? let s dredge up that phrase, drill, baby drill. drill keystone, undercut the price russia charges for europe and we ll win the new cold war the way we won the last one, by bankrupting russia without firing a shot, and we ll kiss off the crazies in the middle east while we re at it. maybe he ll stand up to the far left environmentalists in your own party. i want to play this, my favorite. this is john kerry bashing sarah palin and mitt romney over their short sightedness over russia. he s even blurted out the preposterous notion that russia is our number one political, geopolitical foe. sarah palin said she could see russia from alaska. mitt, mitt romney talks like he s only seen russia by watching rocky iv. oh, my gosh. bob, that that s
now-occupied crimea region of ukraine. reporter: tamron, this remains an extraordinary and dangerous crisis, britton s foreign minister says it s the worst crisis in this century. europe s border is being redrawn by force and pressure on president obama and the west to do something. russian troops, meanwhile, have the ukrainian army pinned down. i ve just come back from one of the biggest ukrainian military bases in crimea, where there are about 150 russian troops surrounding that base trying to take it. the ukrainian troops are still in there behind the gates. they ve put their weapons down. there s no sign of a fight, no sign that they want to fight, but that s standoff continues. russian control here, well, russia is almost in complete control, and it s done it without firing a shot, without tanks. this isn t hungary 56 or czechoslovakia. russia has done it in just three