kremlin. katty kay, not just to keep underlining this, but it needs to be underlied. people need to keep this in context, americans especially. talk about what a radical departure this is for germany. yeah. i mean, the idea of germany getting involved militarily in another country is huge, and they ve started to do that. we saw them announcing sending those tanks. the idea of germany, on the other side, cutting off its imports of oil and gas from russia, which is cultivated to tie russia in the past to the european project is also huge. germany, from my understanding, germany is feeling a huge amount of pressure at the moment. ukraine is so symbolic for them. it s been the scene of enormous atrocities committed by german forces during the second world war. they realize the symbolism, everything the world is seeing. there s pressure from younger germans, for the german government to do more, both in terms of sanctioning russia but
about the west solidarity in its reaction, response to the russian aggressions along the border with ukraine. many other topics also on the table. let s bring in pentagon correspondent oren liebermann. he said he s engaging in non-stop diplomacy to try to prevent the russia/ukraine tensions to tamp down and said he would like to mak non-nato major allies. first dressed russia and ukraine off the top. he s aware of what is going on at the un security council and underlied nato and europe which is if russia decided to invade ukraine, if vladimir putin makes that decision, they stand united that many have described as punishing and nothing like it has seen before. so he underscored that position and this is after the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. linda thomas greenfield that russia
underlied, unquestionably this decision negatively impacted safety here in ft. lee. what do we do? bill stepien was sent that during the shutdown when he was serving as chris christie s top political operative. yes, bill stepien was 1 of the 18 people subpoenaed by the state legislature into the investigation into this matter. those subpoenas are supposed to be responded to by monday. today bill stepien staid he s not going to do that. he s going to invoke the fifth amendment. his lawyer releasing this 19-page letter with 100-plus pages of attachments tonight explaining bill stepien will not comply with the subpoena. he ll invoke this fifth amendment right not to testify. his attorney says bill stepien has not broken any laws. he calls him one of the most well respected political consultants in america. and he says he s taking the fifth. here s the thing, though. that subpoena deadline is monday. is bill stepien going to be the
the senior program manager of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, jasonhanman and filmmaker, director of hbo s crisis hot line, veterans press one. i d like to start with you. you ve made three documentaries on veterans in the past six years. how did you find out about this crisis call center and what drew you to it? you know, we had been talking to veterans for years. and we recognize there were sort of a story that underlied practically everything else we were hearing about. that was about how really difficult it is to transition to civilian life. nobody tells you it s dangerous and deadly to come home. you know it s dangerous to go to war. so we thought what can we do? this is a big, big system, the v.a. it s got a lot of problems. there certainly has to be a way we can get a message to veterans there is effective help for them. they don t have to go it alone.
i think the fundamental question that s underlied his candidacy is he organized enough to go the distance to take this all the way? he s not organized to do it. eventually mitt romney will win it. if it s a momentum battle, if gingrich can win in momentum early maybe iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and florida, the romney people think they can survive those losses, i m not so sure. they have to figure out a way to get newt gingrich neutralized. he ll be hard to stop. mitt romney has the chase, does he fight him in iowa and does he go after him. he hasn t really done that very much. you think we ll see more of romney in iowa now? it s a tough choice for him. it s not his best state. it s one of his worst states. if he fights hard, the press will treat that like a big loss. he might try to lore expectations and go in at the very last minute and steal a