mullen. former undersecretary of defense, michelle fornoy. david petraeus. cyber expert dimitri alperavic, and former national security advisor tom donnelin. our goals should be to build out a case here that is clear to putin as to what the cost is going to be for action that he might take here. we should be communicating to individuals in moscow that life is going to be very, very tough for you if you go into ukraine. you may be able to get all the way, you might even push the government out of kyiv, but at the end of the day, we re going to make life hell for you if that is the case. and that s exactly the kind of very tough warning that was laid out in the president s speech yesterday, which these officials were all saying we need to do. that is what the president is doing. that s what the current officials clearly know is the only way to deter is to threaten
if it s severe stop taking linzess and call your doctor right away. other side effects include gas, stomach-area pain, and swelling. ask your doctor if 90 days of linzess may be right for you. 2018 olympic games are officially under way in south korea. north korea s actions right now continue to make headlines. let s discuss this and more with my next guest, tom donnelin. north korea, it s pretty
with putin, now telling the press corps it s under consideration. some thought this might be put aside unless putin is at the summit, unless putin delivers something on syria. is that any reporting you ve been able to get? peter first. reporter: the idea of another meeting with putin in this context with the investigation sort of bearing down back here at home, and without any kind of deliverable, as tom said without any kind of tangible, concrete outcome out of it might look odd and might, in fact, be counterproductive. president putin is, you know, feeling that he has gotten a lot of what he wanted out of this disruption of american political system through last year s election into this year. he, at this point, is feeling strong and on top of things, and it s not clear that he s willing to collaborate with donald
of his agenda, andrea. and on those subjects that you ve laid out so beautifully, chris jansing, peter baker, tom donnelin, kearney has been tweeting that there was a time when they threatened not having president obama do a press conference at all if they did not take questions from the chinese side. this has been an article of faith both under president obama, president clinton, president george w. bush. when you go to china, you insist on a free press. reporter: yeah, in fact, i remember that press conference that they had. when langley was there, they asked a question from their side. they didn t particularly like it. he asked them about their press freedom issues, and i think there was a sense in the press corps afterward, that s probably the last time we ll get the chinese to take our questions. that s exactly right. it is up to a president to sort of make that decision, to force his hosts to abide by the
let these companies sbu the club, when we had a chance. let s get started. of course, president obama couldn t concentrate completely on asia this week as the crisis in ukraine continued and even heated up. i wanted to delve into both of these issues and how to handle them. that is the kind of advice that tom donnelin used to give president obama. until nine months ago, he was president obama s adviser. tom, thank you for being on. thank you for having me. do you believe that vladimir putin could invade ukraine at some point? i think if they re involved in the situation in ukraine, i think the russian view here is