markets but for tomorrow s empire. as far as putin is concerned, he s in charge. he s the lead who are keeps his word. putin said he d take crimea, and he did. if he doesn t go further into ukraine, it won t be to save face but to allow others to relax and for his ben fishents, crimea be forgiven. this is his calculation. we look at his personality, mike barnicle, and i don t feel like this is someone who you can fairly negotiate with. i understand we have to do sanctions, we don t want to jump into something but i don t see someone on the other end who wants to do the right thing. but there is someone on the
but you really do get a sense of the complexity of this when you read about exactly what they were trying to do, barnicle, what happened with the sanctions yesterday, but also this, quote, vote to annex/secede/separate crimea from ukraine. it s incredibly complex and delicate situation for the united states as well as the ukraine. andrea, one of the things that came to mind just watching that video is clearly the white house and the secretary of state are involved in climbing the ladder on sanctions. there will be further sanctions, tougher sanctions down the road. what do you hear about the problem within the problem? crimea is basically gone. that s not coming back. but the problem within the problem is how do we keep ukraine out of starting a hot war, a shooting war? well, these last two incidents, first of all, what happened yesterday in crimea, in the capital of crimea, with the
i know. can you do that? that have been deleted. they re saying they re giving it their best effort. obviously, though, adding to this, this is the defense minister who revealed this information, saying that the pilots in this captain shot is innocent until proven guilty of any wrongdoing. okay. but still, they re trying to get the files, obviously they become of great importance seeing they ve been recently deleted. malaysian officials coughing up information. that s been another part of this story. there s been a call for more transparency on their part of the investigation. maybe we re getting it now. maybe not. again, deleted files on the pilot s flight simulator, the one at his home. they re trying to retrieve those files. we ll look into that more. greg feith, if you need to come back, we ll bring you back. we have to get to ukraine. russian president vladimir putin wasted no time in taking a victory lap following crimea s annexation to russia. speaking in red square
crimea and may be poised to move into eastern ukraine, if we don t take a good, hard, tough stand against him now, he s going to continue. i want to talk about your home state of illinois and what s going on with the governor s race, that the governor there, quinn, is the most vulnerable governor for reelection. how are you going to double down to make sure he stays in office? an interesting primary last night in illinois. in the two top race for the senate, my seat as well as for the governorship, there were much closer republican primary contests than anticipated. the republican nominee spent millions of his own dollar and barely squaeeaked out a victory. at the end of the day, they don t want people to buy offices in our state. so, yes, pat quinn is challenged