we have re-set it again. do you know what i am waiting for tonight. president obama says he won t go to the g-8. i m looking for what other country says i m not going either. the plan should have been there with those countries in advance that if he came into the crimea, he came into the ukraine, that we would live up to our treaty obligations. after all, the u.s. and the u.k. have a treaty with the u.k. they have no moral right to back us here. we are a signature just like we are. don t you agree it s very telling at least a big sign who is with us and who is not by who responds to that g-8 remark tonight. nor doubt. the major take away is how ill prepared the obama administration was for something that was entirely predictable. how much more are they ill prepared for and, frankly, i m very worried as to how the chinese will react to this. they are seeking those islands that they re in contention with japan over. look at the way obama reacts here and they say to
ambition. this president doesn t understand vladmir putin, he doesn t understand his ambition. the u.s. will not participate in a g-8 summit scheduled for sochi in june unless moscow reverses the course in the ukraine. that brings us this morning to look who is talking. democrats are talking scrambling to defend president obama s handling of the unrest in the ukraine. when it comes to vladimir putin the president knows who he is dealing with. i think president obama gets it. vladimir putin is a bad guy. i think we need a very robust response. but column nuss charles krauthammer says it is clear the response from president obama is not being taken seriously. put tin looks at this guy and says i am dealing with an adolescent. this is a community organizer.
themselves, gee, what the heck is going to do to us if we just take those islands? mayor,s always, thank you, sir. thank you. for a closer look how things really are in kiev right now. check out this tweet from the new york times london bureau chief. he posts this photo with the caption, my hotel in kiev tonight. here is the picture. straight ahead is she horribly on obnoxious. elizabeth hesitate sell beck is here to talk to us tonight. our favorite toronto s crack smoking mayor takes on jimmy kimmel. we are continuing to follow the breaking news and ukraine. violence is ratcheting up on the ground there minutes ago, president obama getting off an hour long call with germany s angela merkel. and president obama is now officially planning to skip the g-8 summit in sochi. on the record is monitoring this crisis live
come along to we can do something to try to squeeze putin. the first thing do you in a crisis like, this you do the things that are within your control. the things you absolutely can do. he was right to say i m not going to go to the g-8. the second thing he should have done was he immediately should have sent somebody to poland and the czech republic and reestablished the nuclear defense treaty. that would have been a shot right in the you know what to putin. the russians are deathly afraid of an american defense shield. it gained us our treaty with gorbachev. the give up nuclear defense shield as an act of kindness. act of trying to be accommodating to the russians. when they announced they were going to re-set the relationship. well, they did re-set the relationship and the relationship is much worse for us.
in doing more, i would say they need to the administration actually needs to take the actions that they have talked about, that they have promised. go from g-8 to g-7. there s no reason for russians to be in the g-8. impose the sanctions that they ve talked about. the personal sanctions on the people who have made decisions that violate international law, and the broader sanctions that have been effective over time in iran and then south africa. charles kupchan, quickly before we go, any chance of getting other members of the g-8 to go along with expelling russia? i think the answer to that depends on what happens in the coming days. if putin backs off, and he has told those troops that were exercising in the south to go back to their barracks. f he looks to be ready to talk about the disposition in crimea, if he looks ready to leave the rest of ukraine alone, then i think it s going to be difficult about getting a united front kicking