the united states cut off russian banks and ability to deal with western banks, putin would i think become very actively involved in what s going on the ground in ukraine immediately. the other aspect of it is is what if ukraine were fast forward in membership into nato. i don t know. but i do know that vladimir putin could stop this if he wanted to. yes. there s no doubt about it. and again the new york times reporting that a lot of these protesters were paid. it does bear a striking resemblance to what s happened in crimea. and if we sit back on our heels and continue to just issue weak warnings from the white house, he s going to be in kiev. so we ll see. coming up, we have congressman steny hoyer and valerie jarrett. later morning joe goes to st. louis for the home opener.
timer. very good. well, you know, because i m so brief. thank you, steny. thank you. coming up, the latest installment of our series state the place. where lindsey graham is facing re-election. we ll answer whether lindsey survives another election. maybe they ll let me ask a question when return. there s a saying around here,
why is it suddenly going to work to demonize paul ryan s budget? well, because republicans like hal rogers the chairman says it s ill conceived and unchanged. and the budget is a budget to disinvest. the budget is to make an exceptional nation unexceptional. the budget is to really undermine the economy, to cut trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars from investment and making sure america is competitive worldwide. and it will undermine our people and working people in particular. so from that standpoint, you know, i think we can point to this budget as a budget that predicts as the wall street journal said, what the republicans would do if they took over the senate and kept the house. the american people are going to reject that. all right. steny hoyer. that s pretty good right there, huh? about 45 seconds to a minute. steny, it s always great seeing you. hope to see you in washington some time soon. always good to be with my
first woman president. and bush says i m the third bush president. and all of us say conservative reform agenda, get away from the failures of the obama years, i think that is a much better message for republicans. let s go to capitol hill right now, we ve got representative from maryland congressman steny hoyer. how you doing today? always good to see you. good morning, joe. good to be with you. well, hey. tell us, yesterday we had chuck schumer on. he said he felt like things were getting better on the senate side. they put out an agenda for working americans. how were you feeling on the house side? it s an uphill climb for democrats, but what are your chances of taking over the majority in 2014? well, joe, i think we have a good chance. i think the polls clearly indicate that people agree with us on almost every issue that we ve talked about in terms of growing jobs and making sure that people can make it in america. so from that standpoint, i think
obamacare approval there is 33%. very low in north carolina,y kay hagan, another endangered democrat is running of it s 40%. so pretty low. and other endangered democrats like mark pryor in arrrgh and mark begich in alaska, facing the same problem. just to alert folks at home, this the scene at the white house. the rose garden outside the oval office. the president will be doing a little crowing. not an april fool s joke, announcing more than seven people have enrolled. the details is how many of these didn t have coverage before. that s something we might not know for a while. they say it s a good start and this will start easing doubts and angst bat the law do you think it still in these vulnerable democrats notwithstanding, we have hit the high point of disapproval for the law and from heaven on out steny