weapon if people are there. the only people that are good at forming a gang is the united states. now putin, he looks bad. but you re dealing with a leader who doesn t care about looking bad. his whole life is auditioning for a bond villain. if there s hell to pay the only way there s hell to pay is if america steps up and encourages europe to do something. without us nobody does anything. andrea you heard the president s remarks. i didn t hear any rhetoric that was strong and convincing to urge the rest of the world lead towers impose sanctions or the u.s. would do something. there was some insinuation russia was behind this. i don t think that vladimir putin want this. i don t think this is good for him. however now he has to deal with the consequences of it.
consequence that follows. andrea? that s absolutely true. benjamin netanyahu unbelievable to me israel is the only country it seems cannot defend itself. it gets criticism for defending itself. we ll get to israel later in this hour. going back to this whole issue on russia. it s astounding to me the way this whole thing has been handled. we re going into a weekend now. the world will find out who indict. that s absolutely true. the response from the white house was just disappointing and terrible. more on that in the next block. next on the five, when the going gets tough, president obama gets going to a fundraiser or a golf course or to camp david where he s headed tonight. i m so sorry, bob, but why can t this president address any crises head on instead of getting out of dodge. stay tuned.
and he s trying to hold on to congress. he s putting his ducks in row. he s trying to hold on to the united states senate and difficult to do it. politics shouldn t be around here in this particular issue. andrea, he s no drama obama. that positive is a negative. definitely a negative. why does it always have to be about him. bob says he has to hold on to the senate because he ll have a bad upcoming two years. we should hold our breath. it will be a bad next two years for everybody else in the country. you said you re trying to coach him. greg, he s uncoachable. bob asks what do you expect him to do. i expect him not to have open mic deals done about flexibility after elections. i don t expect him to put weak sanctions on russia. i don t expect him to disarm our
where president obama held a news conference today. we begin with steve in kiev. steve, what s the latest? reporter: well for ukrainian politicians there s no doubt about who is responsible for this tragedy, they are pointing the finger straight at russia. ukrainia officials calling this an act of terrorism. a lot of real anger reaching a peak after three months of fighting here from ordinary citizens on the streets. they are pushing their government to respond and to respond in force to enact which has outraged a lot of people. that crash site is 25 miles from the russian border it s still an active fighting zone, pretty much controlled by the rebels but a lot of shooting going on. it s hard to get a clear analysis of what s going on as far as the plane goes. experts from the european oesc have arrived on the scene but say the rebels won t let them do their job. how has this tragedy affected the fighting on the ground which has shown global implications.
there s a life blood. good thing it s summer time. we don t need the heating oil as much as we did in the winter. the thing about reagan we were in a cold war. you were right. there was a line. you were either with us or on the other side. this is much more difficult to get your hand around. the world is much more complicated place than it was during the cold war. just to focus on this, the russian stuff and what we talked about in the a block about the black boxes. and the idea that investigation, somehow, how why should russia be allowed at all to be part of this investigation? it s like if putin involved that s like having a cat in charge of mice. like the doj currently in charge of all the investigations of the administration. yeah. the u.s. traced the missile coming from ukraine land. what involvement i think that might be we re jumping ahead. that s what missing is a