their sovereignty that there is going to be consequences. they are not interested in any type of military confrontation with us understanding that our conventional forces are significantly superior to the russians. and of course, president obama on the cbs news tonight discussing the russian nemesis, that is, vladimir putin, who doesn t seem to care what anybody else thinks, in the united states and elsewhere. and the meeting will happen tomorrow while events in the ukraine go from scary to surreal. and christiane amanpour a. i want to talk about make happened today. say there were separatists in montana, and they hand over the keys to the tank.
domestic and partisan and completely global. i want to focus on what s happening in congress here which is republicans attaching irs regulations to approval of an aid package to ukraine. this seems fairly unprecedented. john mccain seemed really, really angry about this. is mccain rage enough to sway the republican party? i don t know that mccain s rage is going to have much to do with this at all, frankly. i m not sure that ultimately republicans are going to hold up this bill. right now i think for people like mitch mcconnell and some folks in the house, picking a fate with the administration over the irs is really good for them in terms of their primary politics. because of what happened withle controversy, they can point to that and say we re trying to stick up for you. the administration is drag its feet, they would rather go after free speech than help ukraine. ultimately they end up caving and letting ukraine go through. that s been the pattern with
but the reason this is happening is because of what putin thinks about ukraine. but because of what he thinks about the united states. there is nothing that we could do to stop him from doing this. maybe we could do things get him to pull back but he is not going to let ukraine go george bush was on the way out and it looks like obama was coming in. this is a bigger issue of how america looks on the world stage and the other world powers that don t have the best interest at heart of americans and filling that power vacuum and he is doing that. he s seeing the opening as president obama pulls back the military and isn t doing much to prevent thi prevent thinks like this thfrom
together with some counter? i think i m a little surprised didn t come down the way it has in asyria with assad. putin said i don t care about anybody else s opinion. in this case assad is a guy that putin gets along with and can handle, whereas in the ukraine, he is willing to throw the president overboard. he obviously doesn t have any particular love for him but is not going to let ukraine go. so he s willing to let one individual president fade off into the distance, but he is not going to let ukraine go, and europe won t stand up to them. they re not in the economic position to do this, and putin coming off the heels of a successful olympics from his point of view, he s still a very strong man in the region and ultimately the financial interests will win out. we ll have two different factions going here, one from the eastern part of ukraine,, which has russian as a first language and aligned most of the people with russia, and the western part of the nation, which sides more
drug trafficking organization in the world. so i think the mexicans, the president of mexico, will wanting to prosecute him. they re going to want the first shot at him. the extradition to the u.s. could happen at a later date, but i doubt it. i think that the mexicans are going to want him and they re going to want to keep him in prison down there. within the last year they have also arrested the head of los zatos, another extremely violent drug trafficking organization, so these are major accomplishments for the new administration of the president carrying on the drug fight started really by president calderon, his predecessors. all right, tom fuentes, nick parker, thanks so much. appreciate that. you re welcome. a country deals with a murky future with no president and fresh memories of deadly protests, so where does ukraine go from here? the view from the capital city next. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day.