but also go at them where it really hurts russia. the thing that could hurt russia is the petra dollar, if you go ahead and subsidize the oil transfers to other parts of western and eastern western europe. force them into a recession, an economic recession that s what you need to do. squeeze them where it hurts. all right. coming up, whenever there is a crisis, president obama always seems to be in a dining room rather than a situation room. well, yesterday, he hit the fundraising circuit last night right here in the big apple. just hours after the plane went down in ukraine. we ll discuss his presidential priorities when we come back on this very special edition of the five.
military option, the u.s. military option off the table. republican john mccain says this she s the president s leadership has been awol. listen. we don t see u.s. military role beyond what we have already been doing in working with our nato partners and some of the baltic states, giving them reassurances that we are prepared to do whatever is required to meet our alliance obligations. there is a perception of american weakness throughout the world and we are paying a very heavy price for it. and we will continue to until we have restoration of american strength. big focus on what s next here. the president taking that military option off the table. so, the focus is on sanctions. the president today making the case that this should be a wakeup call for european allies to step up with tougher sanctions against russia. but, so far, european allies have rejected that they are worried it will boomerang on
there is questions and concerns about whether or not that has been tampered with whether or not the russians have removed things from the scene. then there is some questions about specific intent. did they intend to shoot down a commercial aircraft or with were they trying to shoot down something else? is it t. doesn t matter. the law won t excuse it. transferred intent. all the things we have to look at to determine who should be held accountable and whether or not we can can create a nexus between this act of terrorism and directly tie it to russia. greg, the soviets did this twice. once in the carter administration. one in the reagan administration. i don t think this is what putin wants. a commercial airliner going down. i think it probably was a mistake. it doesn t help him. it doesn t make it look good. i don t think he really cares at this point. because the international community is not coalescing to stand up to him. and when we saw the europeans, they tried green energy. it
say? obviously these were actors hired by the ukraine. and it was planted because that s what you actually, you know, you are hearing things like that on russia today, the most insane network on this planet. they made prague seem like fox news. they were so far to the wacky, they are saying that kiev, the ukraine might have actually shot down the plane and blamed it on the russians. the fact is malaysian the malaysian airplane flew over there to save fuel, which was a mistake, i think. and i think their airline is finished. and i think also, i think russia today as a network is finished. they have anchors quitting because they are lying to people people. maybe something good will come out of this. there will be no more russia today. bob, you heard some democrats that we quoted, senator carl levin among others today, taking a pretty firm stance. even samantha power. can you see a bit of a democrat divide in the next couple of weeks if they are separating from the president s respons
opportunity. let me say three things very quickly. you talk about the korean airline. russia backed up. shot the thing out of the air, number one, number two, the idea about the military. nobody in their right mind would consider military action in the crimea. did he say that he was willing to go allies in the ball cans to ensure them. that s a fair thing to say. this is the worst thing to happen to putin. what it is going to do galvanize the international community. i think he is sitting back there saying i blew it who is going to get the black books. invade to get the black boxes. absolutely. we already have people nearby. we should be going in there and getting that that does not belong. john mccain never comes up. he says he never comes up with an answer. what are you going to do? i gave him an answer. you did but he didn t. these guys shoot their mouth up but didn t come with an answer. time has been lost because the black box, items have been removed from the crime sc