video coming in, the confrontation seemingly escalated at the time when vice president bide zen n is going t visit ukraine, and it was two weeks ago that president vladimire called president ob a obama, and so behind the scenes, some believe that there was some positive events happening that we were not perhaps privy to. well, right. here s the cynic s take on this saga so faring which i think has some substantiation is that russia has done a good job of creating the pretensive diplomacy of the negotiations possibility off a breakthrough, and putin sends his foreign minister lavrov to say, don t worry, we won t do what people say we will do, and then putin does it. and one point kerry talked to lavrov and he called back to
diversity of the opinions whether it is foreign policy and the fiscal policy and things like that, but the biggest takeaway from it is just how much the republican party has broken from the bush years, and when you look at the issues brought up, complaints about the common core, and that is an issue that you have that the right does not like right now, and it is an issue that jeb bush actually supports, and so bush, if he decides to run for the presidency in 2016 would have to confront a base that is opposed to the common core, and also very much against a immigration reform, and against the nsa surveillance program that started under bush years and continued in the president obama s presidency, and mike huckabee, the former arkansas governor took a shot of the ntsa with the comparison of the security to north korea in the bush years. and mark, thank you, and we will
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welcome back, everybody. at this very hour, president obama is in europe meeting with other leaders at the g7 at the hague. russia s take over of crimea is topping the agenda for that conversation. did you notice that number? it s g-7. not g8. russia is on the outs. the president and european allies are meeting on the sidelines of something that was previously scheduled at the hague, but the renewed focus on russia has given the conversation a clear focus, send a message to vladimir putin that his power play has made him an outsider. earlier today he declared the g7 united in their resolve to punish putin for his actions. europe and america are united
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