elicit a military reaction from ukraine in order to make the crimea a breakaway region. well the prime minister said that the russians had failed, that the ukrainian military will not be provoked in any such way, that they re not going to engage militarily in hopes for a diplomatic solution. they believe that those avenues are still open. that they are going to try to use those, as well. but, he did have some strong words for the russians, telling them that they need to go back to their bases, that they re not welcome, they need to go home, and that ukraine that the crimea is ukrainian territory, victor. all right. cnn s ian lee in the capital of ukraine, thank you so much, ian lee, appreciate it. you know one top u.s. lawmaker called the russian movement an aggression. congressman mike rogers we re talking about, chairman of the house intelligence committee said and i want to quote him here, it appears that the russian military now controls the crimean peninsula. this aggression i
a nuclear deal with iran, a handshake with raul castro, is this shaping up to be his policy or at least part of it? our jim scuitto is here in the situation room. what s behind in nuanced dwis? for the one thing, a president in his second term thinking about legacy. others say he s driven to foreign policy, but you do have a president who is a risk taker, and more so with military reaction. remember his reluctance on syria, and now working with some of america s most difficult adversaries. on the surface. it was just a handshake, but there may be more going on
opposed to military reaction in syria. delighted to join you, thank you. you ve said all along the action, the use of chemical weapons was an atrocity but you feel and have felt the u.s. should not go it alone. we have france and perhaps russia involved in diplomacy here. are you optimistic at this point? a new path has presented itself that allows us to bring the world community together to deal with the threat of chemical weapons in syria and set a precedent for dealing with them elsewhere. it doesn t involve the use of military force in syria, a country involved in a year s long bloody civil war. and i think that s a path that we have to pursue and show our leadership in bringing the world community together. as i said before, global atrocities demand a global response. if this plan does not work and syria does not turn over its
everywhere. we have to use nonmilitary means wherever we can. and this is why this inspection proposal as thin as straw as it might be, is worth grasping, because it leaves a certain breathing space for everyone, assad gets to get away without really being bombed. putin looks so good he might be nominated for the nobel peace prize and even president obama can say, see, there will be no further chemical weapons used, i won. letting everybody save face on this and disengaging from a military reaction, i think is the most we can hope for. roger simon, thank you very much. still ahead, sidelined overse syria. the clock it ticking on legislation to prevent an october 1st government shutdown, not to mention immigration
to work on that. i would say the administration has been working for two years to shame the world who let bashar al assad do what he s been doing. president obama argued if we do nothing, we re letting the violation of an international norm stand. no one else is going to do it. we certainly can t count on the united nations because of russia andy can t count on the international community. what do you say to those who say we need to do something because this is so beyond the pale using chemical weapons, if we allow this to stand we re sending the wrong message to the iranians, to the north koreans and others. i agree, we need to respond. the question is whether military reaction is the proper response. i m sure the administration has made some attempts to garner world support over the last two and a half years. i m just not aware of it certainly hasn t ban very robust effort. it certainly hasn t been a successful effort. the other problem here with