there s more guys there, and they are going to be getting out, if we re not paying attention. is congress fully in the loop? we are. there s a move by some to try to close gitmo, but we ve taken a stand against that in the national defense authorization. if the president wants to close gitmo or release prisoners, authorize war tribunals, have them convicted, excuted, or released oven time serve. we can get to the bottom of it, but there s no move for war try tribunals tribunals. thank you, congressman, and thank you so much for joining us this morning. my pleasure thank you. all right. coming up the president hammered for saying this about the baltimore rioters. now, going back in the communities to clean up in the aftermath of a handful of protests, criminals and thugs who tore up the place. now we find out, apparently
administration are actually convicted criminals. plus forget the protein shake. we ll tell you about one company s plan to turn beer into the next great post-workout drink. jon: there are massive protests underway in ukraine right now. demonstrators demanding that the new ukrainian parliament release prisoners arrested during clashes in kiev. huge anti-russian crowds in crimea demonstrating after the parliament there announced it will declare independence if voters choose to break away from ukraine on sunday. meanwhile the ousted ukrainian president is holed up in russia saying he is still in charge of that country. accusing the new government of instigating a civil war. meanwhile the interim ukrainian prime minister is getting ready to fly to washington to meet with president obama. he is asking the west for hope saying his country has to defend itself against russia, a nation, quote, armed to the teeth and has nuclear weapons. jenna: nato powers made it clear
led to the second chechen war. that book has since been reissued in russian under the title how putin became president. and it actually became a best-seller. maybe that was part of it. in fact, it did not go to russia in order to reopen the question of the apartment bombings. i ve talked about that in my book. i have testified about it before congress. my goal in going there was to was to understand the whole sweep of russian history after the fall of the soviet union. nonetheless, we can t speculate as to what went on in the minds of the russian authorities. our nick robertson is joining us from moscow oh. and let s try to make sense of this, sort this out here. because we have seen russian president vladimir putin release prisoners who were critics of his. the punk rockers, pussy riot, and political foes and now this journalist writing critical articles of the government for
then the nature of our partnership and the investments that we have made will be more difficult to sustain. all this raising an important question after more than a decade already, why does the united states need to stay in afghanistan any longer? let s bring in cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh with details. sounds like susan rice was issuing an ultimatum to the afghan president. what s the holdup in this deal? reporter: well, karzai has effectively changed the goal posts. everyone thought the major text was out, said he wouldn t sign that text until next year after elections, then threw in some conditions. no more raids on afghan homes, release prisoners from guantanamo. many asking why. i think people see him trying to keep leverage here. it s his last big chance to pry something out of the united states. he may have his eyes on the elections next year which will choose his successor. the u.s. was very critical of the elections that put him back
office, i never even conceived a thought of running for president. it was only after when he took office and i saw his arrogant disregard for the american people that i knew i had to do what i could do. arrogant disregard of the people that s made our military weaker. our economy weaker, and our respect in the world less. cain will be in south carolina tonight for a gop debate. the obama administration has turned over some e-mails to a house committee investigating the solyndra collapse. they did not give the panel everything it requested saying the subpoena was overbroad and overreaching. the committee is investigating the decision to provide $535 million in loan guarantees to solyndra. and right now in hawaii, president barack obama, he s hosting leaders from the asia-pacific region, talking about the economic potential in that region. cnn s dan lothian is there. and you will be hearing from him later on. the president, meantime, will be heading to australia and indones