separatists. given its direct influence over the separatists, 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. at an eu meeting in brussels, david cameron even invoked the spectra of nazi germany. those of us in europe need not be reminded of the consequences of turning a blind eye when big countries bully smaller countries. european markets, capital, european knowledge and technical expertise while she feels conflict in one of europe s neighbors. in a sign of just how tough pursuing new sanctions will be, france s president says he plans to push ahead with a $1.6 billion deal to sell helicopter carriers to russia.
i understand you have to be physically prudent. when we send these men and women off to war, very seldom do i hear people talk about the cost of it. treating our veteran sincere the cost of war. that would face an interesting future in the house should you get it out of the senate. president obama and the administration is in hot water over a report that they were slow to act on the border crisis. you ve been, obviously, someone who has commented on immigration, a fair amount of your time in the senate. what do you make of the president and white house claiming they deemed it originally a local problem and were caught offguard? hindsight is 20/20. we ve got a problem, 60,000 young people at the border. the administration needs to step up and give them the resources they need to solve this problem. playing politics with it doesn t solve the problem. it s one of the problems that congress has had, jumping from crisis to crisis instead of dealing with the policies that
he is trying to be the ronald reagan in moscow, popular for restoring russian pride and consequence on the global stage. he is willing to pay a high price for that. these sanctions are going to get them. sanctions are going to put pressure on his cronies and he will eventually crumble. we re seeing what we used to see in the cold war, a lot of projecting and not understanding that he has a strategic plan behind what he is doing. when you look at a long list of confrontations we ve had with russia over the last several years, he is continuing down that road. one of the other characteristics is president obama has been saying this. he says one thing and does another and he is quite comfortable with that gap. where the real putin is, is sometimes very complicated. he could very well exceed to this and even distance himself from the rebels temporarily. that doesn t mean ukraine will ever be out of the vice that
in brussels of the foreign ministers, britain, france and germany decided to go together and say they were ready to ratchet up sanctions against russia. putin faces an interesting dilemma. if he doubles down in ukraine, if he defiantly ignores the international community and continues to prop up those rebels, he faces potentially damaging sanctions, even talks of an arms embargo. on the other hand, if he gives in to international pressure and cuts his ties with those rebels, he loses face, the worst thing that can happen to a russian leader. he looks weak, defeated in eyes of russians throughout the region, especially here in crimea and at home with his own base he could quickly lose support. one analyst in mots cow says the kremlin has been reduced to choosing between bad and worse. typically, putin seems to be looking for a middle way out. pushing for a cease fire suddenly, perhaps to create some
russia is presenting its version of the events for the first time that a ukrainian fighter jet was in the area when the malaysia plane was shot down, which u.s. intelligence says is not true. putin warned against ultimatums and sanctions, calling for the west to push ukraine s military to stop its offensive in donetsk. jim maceda is live for us. reporter: putin, going into that security meeting and on the defensive also said today that russia had to beef up its military capabilities because of unnamed moves by nato. the pressure definitely is on putin. it s clearly mounting, both from the increasingly robust u.s.-led intelligence case against putin as well as the threat of sanctions. the meeting that you mentioned