the united states would love to have ukraine out of russia s orbit but the united states is not going to do anything by itself. it s going to try to be with its european allies but the european allies are not interested in tweaking russia because they depend so heavily on russian natural gas, russian oil and other russian products and the western europeans, particularly france and germany have already said that they re not going to sign on and america is going to have to do something by itself. let s talk about the 150 american paratroopers who landed in lithuania part of a u.s. deployment of 600 troops to bolster nato s presence in the region. do you see any scenario where u.s. troops are on the ground in ukraine? no, but there are plenty of russian troops on the ground particularly special operations forces in ukraine and the surround area, 40,000 on the
build a muslim mosque steps away from where radical islamists killed 3000 people in your position? we all know that they have the right to do it, but should they? this is not above your pay grade. she says mr. president, why are they so set on marking on area with with a mosque, steps from what you decided in an agreement, as many have, as hallowed ground? bill: we ll talk to a vocal critic of the mosque debate, peter king out of new york, he says the president is trying to have it both ways and says building that mosque near ground zero is insensitive and incaring. peter king is on deck. martha: on the border issue on this monday moment, president obama s border czar made a stop, the u.s. head of customs and border protection allan bersten went down there. the president has been criticized for not making a similar visit of this kind