obviously intelligence communities looking at this, if they can find out complicity, russian complicity, who pulled the trigger on this situation. policy, i think that s what the white house is waiting before they make any policy decisions but at the same time, if it looks like they re just dragging their feet and not going to do anything about it, then that may embolden vladmir putin further. the possibility if there s a bigger response here is that vladmir putin may draw back and stop his support of this insurgency. and specifically, what would a vigorous response look like? well, if you knew enough now, i want to make sure we know enough. i m outside the government and you re outside the government. we don t know everything. if we felt like this was something that led to moscow s or kremlin s doorsteps, i think sanctions, supporting ukrainians to a much bigger degree momentarily so they could deal with this insurgency. like i said, this weakness we showed in crimea, along with
look like? if russias would open up, it would allow us to do a full investigation but if they perceive there s not going to be a vigorous response to this, i think that they will try to opt any possibility of getting to the truth about this. we may be able to learn that in intelligence but through an open fashion and legal fashion so i think there s real problems and i think my view, jenna, is that the weakness on ukraine along with the europeans, probably led to this terrible tragedy because russia felt like and vladmir putin felt like he could do what he wanted to do in that part of the world that led to the insurgency. we want to gather all the facts in all of this but do you think our focus is too much on the investigative part of this and not enough on the policy part and engaging russia and the waiting for the facts, is that going to be detrimental to holding russia accountable if that indeed needs to happen? there s probably several investigations going on. we want to
airlines flight putting new strains on u.s. strains with russia. russia gave the rebels in eastern ukraine sophisticated anti-aircraft systems in recent weeks. all this as vladmir putin continues to blame ukraine as the outcry from world leaders who say he must cooperate in the investigation. peter brooks, senior fellow and former c.i.a. operative joins us now. when you were in the navy, you were flying reconnaissance missions over the soviet union and you turned your focus on that part of the world in the subsequent years. what did you learn then and what have you learned the last several years that you think needs to apply now in dealing with russia when it comes to this situation? i think that the russians don t respect weakness, i think if they find us ir resolute about this issue, they will take advantage of it and i think that will play a very important role here as to how these events and this investigation and the future unfolds in regards to relations with russia in that par
when it comes in other colors, it will be more options. i believe the dollars is two to three dollars per foot on the car that need to be applied by professionals. it would be great for the company if a car manufacturer jumps on it and makes it an option. looks good with the hershey s sauce all over it. dagen, thank you. good to see you as always. thanks. can i get that for my kitchen counters? maybe on more things in just the car. i m all over that. the pressure seems to be mounting now on vladmir putin to get the investigation into the crash of flight 17 moving forward. will the russian president double down on his resistance? or will he actually allow it to happen? an analyst weighing in just ahead. so get out there, and get the best price guaranteed. find it for less and we ll match it and give you $50 toward your next trip. expedia. find yours.
president obama wielding the levels of power in the oval office, what should be done first? ask the russians, mr. vladmir putin to per met a real investigation in a timely fashion and the quickest possible return of the bodies to their loved ones. mr. vladmir putin does not want this to happen. he s afraid that culpability will be firmly established. you need a clear demand for this, from not just president obama but also our european allies and if the russians don t allow this to happen, then there should be sanctions placed on further sanctions placed on rush ons. there are some norms to international behavior and one of them is that if an airliner crashes, you let investigators in there. now, the ukrainians apparently have their hands tied. they can t really provide full unfetterred access to this crash site because it s in territory