without a hitch, but also to try to deal with the violence we saw yet again over the weekend. this is what he was left today after a deadly easter shootout in eastern ukraine shattering last week s troops with russia. it s crystal clear that russia is the threat, the threat to the european union and a real threat to ukraine. reporter: keeping eastern ukraine safe is on vice president joe biden s agenda as he travels to kiev, that, plus assuring free and fair elections next month. there is no military answer to this. it has to be solved through diplomacy. i really do believe we should be sanctioning some of the companies in the energy sector. we cannot work with russia and try to achieve anything in regards to the language of sanctions. reporter: now there s word
which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours. jonathan capehart is back with us. let s start off with syria, they ll miss the first deadline for getting rid of chemical weapons. what are the implications of that for president obama? this is something that plagued this white house and obviously the people of syria for a long time. what are the implications for president obama? the implications are it s more of a syrian headache for the president. remember, he had threatened military answer against the assad regime then decided not to in order to pursue a diplomatic solution and part of that solution was getting rid of assad s chemical weapon stockpiles by tomorrow, 500 metric tons were supposed to have been gotten rid of. but because of security concerns and weather, that is not
because at the end of the day, there is no military answer to this problem. there are military means that can be used to set it back. iran has the know how and engineering capability to rebuild what you destroy so you need a context if you re going to use force, where the rest of the world is prepared to maintain severe economic sanctions on iran so that financially, and from a material standpoint it would be very difficult for the iranians to reconstitute. maintaining that context is important if you re going to use force. the more that the iranians see the context exists that may lead them to realize they need to look for a way out. one of the questions is you re going to have a rationale response from iran in terms of these sanctions have been very effective in erms it of the economy in terms of the economy, but iran is still proceeding with its program, not paying attention according to most analysis to the fact that economy is suffering. they re not backing down.
this is going to be very difficult because kandahar is owned by the taliban. there s very little regard inside that city among the local population for karzai and his crooked cronies, a very, very difficult job that puts the coalition under a great deal of pressure to get this right. as we continue to send millions, if not billions more in aid and hamid karzai now, i believe it s the second time in three days, today he s saying to the u.s. to stop interfering, i m just checking my notes. he s taking the money. he s saying he doesn t want us to interfere. obviously the people who live there want to be safe, those not involved in the taliban. others have no choice because that s been the way they ve supported their families. what do you say to the families who are saying now a new round of our troops going about why it s important for us to be there? the important thing is, if i can give you a military answer, the important point for them to remember is that this is a local operation
list has occurred in that effort to try to create some kind of deal with them where you could restrain the practice. in the meantime, the north seems to have barreled on. i don t know that the pressure has ever been ratcheted up quite as high as it is now. there may be, bret, some military answer here that we can t imagine. but it s worth remembering that nobody has ever thought of one that would forestall the kind of artillery barrage, forget nuclear weapons, the artillery barrage for north is thought capable of mounting on seoul. that s been what s allowed north korea to move forward without apparent fear of real punishment. bret: yeah, i was just there. it s about 25 miles and there s 1500 artillery pieces in the mountain. it s a scary prospect. brit, as always, thank you very much. now to the latest on the