John miller is Deputy Commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism for the new York City Police department, a key component of the massive security effort being put into place for the popes visit. John, good morning. Good morning. Its good to see you. How would you describe this type of security challenge. Well, this is the single larger and most complicated security undertaking in the history of the nypd, not because the pope hasnt been here before. Popes have traveled to new york many times its because you have the u. N. General assembly with 170 world leaders. You have the president of the United States coming at some point during this, and you have the pope, and the difference here is new yorkers especially are used to the president passing through. They are used to world leader traveling across town. Its a factor of having the u. N. In town, but they will actually stop in large, large numbers and gather to see the pope, so running all three of those at once has never been don
I think he makes a very good point, but this is not iraq or afghanistan. The antiinterventionist tendency as a result of our problem deployments in afghanistan and iraq. What were doing in ukraine is a little bit more active, little bit more intelligent a little more active. Host possible sanctions . Guest that is diplomacy. It does not cost anything to issue sanctions. Sanctions talk is having an impact. A positive impact. Host who does it impact and who does the cost . Guest it costs those that are causing and promoting violence in the ukraine. Host what about the people of the ukraine . Guest that is the beauty of the sanctions. We put the sanctions on iraq all the sanctions on iran. Sanctions against a few oligarchs does not hit the people of ukraine. They pay no cost for it. If it leads to better policies, that is their benefit. Host ukraine Opposition Leader urges demonstrators for truce as protesters seize government building in kiev. Guest that sounds like it is the right thing
Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. You can post your comments or email them at cspan. Org. To help us understand what is happening, we are joined by john herbst. How do we get to where we are now . There is great dissatisfaction, not just among people in the center and west of the country, but even in the east with his role. Corruption, which is a major problem in the ukraine, has become worse. You had his rejection of the trade deal and tens of thousands of protesters came out to protest. He made the mistake of cracking down. The crackdowns are not well received in the public. We had tens of thousands of demonstrators demonstrating on one day. After the crackdown, we have hundreds of thousands in the streets. The numbers have ebbed and flowed ever since. Insistingters are that he give up our. They want a ukraine that has democratic freedoms. Host who are the protesters . Guest they appeared spontaneously. Protesters that occurred the protests