security of israel. it s absolutely essential. they are our friends and allies. but i do think that it is important to accept a cease-fire. the truth is that prime minister netanyahu has, in fact, a couple of times said that he would go forward with a cease-fire. it s hamas that is not responding to it. and part of the problem here is that while the relationship between egypt and israel has been useful over the years, part of the problem is that president sisi does not have the same relationship with hamas. there is the problem with trying to get hamas to accept a cease-fire. former secretary of state madeleine albright, thank you so much. dr. zbigniew brzezinski, thank you as well. thanks, dad. thank you. good to have you both. still ahead on morning joe, we ll speak to ed royce and chris murphy about what, if anything, the obama white house should do in eastern ukraine. plus, we ll go behind the scenes of one of the year s most touching movies. how the cast and crew of
the separatists or kremlin surrogates have handed over the jet s black boxes after days of pressure from victims families and world leaders. a train filled with the bodies of crash victims arrived moments ago. before it will reach amsterdam. and malaysia s prime minister says the rebels have promised to give investigators full access to the crash site, which is now corrupted. the move came just hours after president obama criticized the rebels and russian president vladimir putin. these separatists are removing evidence from the crash site, all of which begs the question, what exactly are they trying to hide? russia has urged them on. russia has trained them. we know that russia has armed them with military equipment and weapons. russia and president putin, in particular, has direct responsibility to compel them to cooperate with the investigation. that is the least that they can do. pointed strong statements by president obama. russia has released its first
repa repatriate them. i also reference the conference of bishops statement in which they say baby jesus was a refugee from violence. let us not turn away these children and send them back into a burning building. that s the bishops. so we have to do this in a way that honors our values but also protects our border and does so in a way that the american people understand more clearly. you re engaged in your usual tireless efforts to win house seats back. yes. lots of fund-raising, lots of travel. and you re publicly on record saying as you must that you think you re going to win back the majority. convince us that you really do think that. let me just say this is a very odd year, that all assumptions that people have made about in an off year of the president s party, they re all stale, and they re obsolete. communication is completely
arguments from the white house was we don t want to change the president s schedule. we don t want to alarm people. well, i m not worried about being alarmed. i am alarmed by what has happened. i m sure everyone else is, too. what about getting together with world leaders, an emergency meeting, and alarming pu ining the first time, maybe, once? i think everyone around this table this morning have said that putin and russia have to be confronted in some way. the question is what does that mean? how will russia be confronted? if you look at it from putin s perspective, he sort of dipped his toe in the water by waltzing into crimea, annexing it, and there were no real repercussions for that. from his way of seeing things, they re not going to push back this time either. yeah, and everything that the west has done so far, these sanctions on individuals and businesses, taking largely symbolic steps like kicking putin out of the g-8 clearly haven t made much of a difference. nothing. a
person to line up, we may, in fact, contribute to desplintering of europe. secretary albright. well, i fully agree, and i think it s very, very important for the europeans to move. it is stunning to me how slow they have been in all of this. ultimately, they will have to become unified. what was interesting, mika, was that at the beginning, the action of putin had unified europe and then, in fact, it redivided. and i do think that there has to be concerted effort, and i m very impressed with the kind of statements that mr. cameron has been making and carl bilt. and i think that we have to push. believe me, i don t think there s any lack of telephone calls from washington to everybody. washington is really involved in pushing on this. willie. dr. brzezinski, what can the president of the united states be doing right now? we trust that he is making those phone calls to europe. but what kind of strength would you like to see out of your president this morning? first of all, i fu