Are already there taking control. Today president putin watched his troops in russia practicing and as he bears down, the world is waiting to see how president obama will live up to his work. Three days ago, he spoke with costs for any military intervention by russia. Secretary of state john kerry is heading to the capital of kiev tonight and the u. S. Just announced they wont send a delegation to the paralympics in sochi that start on friday. The critics say the u. S. Response has not been fast or furious enough. Senator john mccain for instance spoke to cnn last hour. With ukraine, it is the crown jewel. Lets go back to peace. What kind of a message are we sending and slashing the military some. We are covering this international kroo isz from all angles the retired general. Phil black is in moscow. Help us clear up the confusion here. The question we want to know with forces, did russia issue an ultimatum and set this deadline on ukrainians if they dont swear allegiance or surrender there in kri me a. You have Russian Media quoting Ukrainian Defense saying this happened, but you have the Russian Defense ministry saying this didnt happen. Can you clear this up for us . We have conflicting reports and Russian Media reporting this deadline was set at 5 00 local time tomorrow to surrender or face a storm of Russian Military force in response. We have spoken to defense officials who say yes, there was an ultimatum. The commander thwarted one of the vessels that blocked in the harbor there. And we are told that the forces have three choices. They can swear allegiance and surrender or face an attack. Now a denial through russian state media from the black sea fleet. The russian black city fleet that there was any such ultimatum. We are being told that these ultimatums have been regular and constant since Russian Troops first showed up. At various military bases and installations across that region. Russian forces have been saying we have a limited time. They have not been enforced. We have russian lawmakers dealing with a necations of territory. Tell us about that. So a group of members of the Russian Parliament are coming up with an amendment to the existing law. What this is supposed to do is define the rules and scenario and the process where by another country or part of another country can seek to join the Russian Federation. A reverse annexation where part of another country said we would like to join russia. It describes the scenario where a government is not protecting the citizensment International Law is not working and there is no consensus under that scenario. The people of a country or of a region would hold the referendum and they would be able to join the Russian Federation. At the moment it is just a draft. Its a Committee Stage in the parliament. Not sure how much support it got, but it is absolutely drawn up in response to the events that we are seeing in the ukraine. We are. The forces predominantly russian speaking. Obviously very specific to that. Here with us now as well, the United States army retired, he is a cnn military analyst. We hear these conflicting reports about whether the Russian Military or the black sea naval commander has said look, you need to surrender here in crimea to Ukrainian Forces. Do you read this as a sign of confusion or perhaps reading this as a sign of calculation . Like most military operations, there is a lot of confusion on the ground. This chapter on the ground. N they virtually control everything they needed in crimea. I hope they are not going to ratchet up the situation by starting the conflict. That would be number one unnecessary because they have what they want. Number two, it would lead to senseless loss of life and possibly escalate the situation. So whose move is it now. Talk specifically about the u. S. When it comes to president obama . What does he need to do . Is it his move . First of all, president obama has been clear on two things. Number one, this is an international problem, not an american problem. He is trying to go to nato and the eu and by trying to bring in osc eamonn tors. And my view on the stake is taking use of military force off the table. It could be that military force just a gigantic opening to the russians and said to the russians what you have done has been validated. Nobody will stand up. Even if you are dealing with translation. What do you read into that. I didnt hear the phone call and i didnt want to speculate, but they had a set of talking points. He was making it clear he was not willing to put troops on the line. As i said earlier, that was probably the ticket in the mind of president putin to continue the operation. Without concern that the International Community was going to intervene to stop it. You consider that to be opening the door and saying come on in. One of the things we have seen as president obama really tries to make this more about accountability from europe and not the u. S. The New York Times talked to putin and that she came away saying that putin lot of touch with reality. They did it in czechoslovakia in the 60s. This is very logical and consistent with russian history. If the borders were threatened, they will take action. Do you read it in that way . What i read is that there is a belief among this administration. Taking a break from history, somehow the 21st century will be with the 20th in 19th. Putin is acting as a realist and the nationalist that he has been for years and years. These activities are completely rational. The response to him of the International Community has been the result he is going to move his pieces on the chess board and take the blocks. General mark, thanks if are your time. Appreciate it. Sure. The ukraine crisis is triggering a global stock market tumble. You may wonder why ukraine matters so much to the world economy. Thats the help of many countries. Russias economy is dependent on energy crisis. Russia supplies much of europes gas through pipelines that crisscross ukraine. During disputes, russia cutoff the pipelines causing them to soar. Russias stocks took the steepest dive in five years. Lets take a look at how the stocks are doing. The dow is down a little over 160 points. Lets bring in the host of quest means business in london. Richard, how are the stocks reacting in london where you are. In all the markets you are seeing, heavy sell offs. In germany. The index closed down 1 2 1 2 . Germaniy has huge business relations the. A lot of economic interests with russia. If there looks to be any form of sanctions and economic effect between the west and russia, germany is one of the first economies that will certainly feel the pinch on this side of that. London was down 1 1 2 . Paris similarly. Ukraine as such economically. Both because of those pipelines and because any form of economic standoff between russia, the United States, the European Union is absolutely so serious, that is why if we look under the hood of this, if we look under it, we are seeing all the usual effects. Thats up 2 . Oil up 1. 5 . U. S. Trooshys and the last bastians of safety. The yield on that is started to rise. Most definitely we are seeing effects of this crisis in the economic sphere. Are you thinking this is going to be shortterm or do you think we will be seeing a longterm stock sell off. Park are this stock sell off, its not just limited to stocks. Its oil and currencies during an all time low in the u. S. Dollar. Lets call it this market volatility. Even the index that looks at volatility was up 15 . This will continue until there is a form of serenity. Some sort of sanity. Until the markets get an idea of what is going to happen. As they continue to rise and the tempers and tensions get higher, they are going to see more of this flight to quality. They will benefit. Richard quest, thank you as always for bricking it down for us. Coming up, much, much more on this fast moving situation and whats going on inside of putins head and why crimea is so important to them. We are speaking live with putins motivation. Millions of americans getting hammered by a nasty winter storm. We will take you live to one of the hard est hit places and the trial begins. For the man known as the blade runner accused of murdering his girlfriend. What a neighbor said she heard from oscar pistoriuss home. We will go back to our breaking news and back here in the u. S. , when will it be over. That is what winterweary folks have been. You have about 90 Million People from the midwest to the northeast dealing with another round of snow, ice, and freezing temperatures. We have a live look at the u. S. Capital. Beautiful and very cold. This storm could bring up to a foot of snow to areas on the east coast. New jersey, delaware, virginia, mississippi and tennessee. They have all declared states of emergency and School Districts from dallas to philadelphia are closed. Two people have been killed. They had to plow Washington International airport not far from washington, d. C. 2400 flights have been canceled because of this. Most are in d. C. And philadelphia. The snow didnt stop this guy from jogging in d. C. I dont think thats a good idea. Hes not wearing enough clothes. The federal government closed here in washington, d. C. Joining us from this sort of snowy cold paradise, but also its chilly out there. Erin, we are expecting to get this trifecta of rain, ice, and snow. How long do you think this will last . Brianna, hopefully not that much longer. It has been snowing off and on all day, but we got rain last night and thats why we have this slick thick layer of ice underneath all of snow. Thats made the roads around here very slick. We have seen a lot of cars sliding on this road out here right in front of the capitol. Monday is a very busy day in washington. You have lots of commuters from all over the country trying to get into washington for the weeks business to start. That has been slowed down and also the White House Briefing was canceled and obviously there is a lot of news going on out of russia and ukraine. Its too bad the briefing has been canceled. Tomorrow is another big day in washington as you know. The president s budget will be delivered to capitol hill tomorrow morning at 8 00 a. M. There is a big photo opportunity at the dirkson office building. We hope they can get them cleared so everyone has a chance to review the budget. A lot of important stuff this week. 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You get the sense that not only is he talking about netanyahu, he is also talking about himself. This is the president whose presidency has been all about islamist extremism and civil wars and he would like as part of his legacy to at least get something started in the intractable mideast. He will push netanyahu as you point out, they are not best of friends. Im sure netanyahu was not thrilled by that interview. It sounded like the president was giving him an ultimatum. Its clear that the presidency is ticking. We are seeing whats going on with russia as a major test. You read the Washington Post today, the opinion section. It talks about president obamas Foreign Policy even just leading up to this point. The Foreign Policy is based on fantasy. At the Washington Post, they slam him. They say he thinks and bases his Foreign Policy on how he thinks the world should operate rather than on reality. The stakes here are so high. The stakes here are hugely high. That would be the same complaint that john mccain is offering when he said the administration had an effect on the Foreign Policy. This goes back to the vasilation on syria. One day it seems like we are ready to intervene and the next day the president said never mind. Nobody can say with certainty whats in Vladimir Putins side and why he did what he did. He had his own geopolitical reasons whether there was a certain amount of willingness to do it because he thought the president was not going to be a strong leader or is that, by the way, our nato allies would not be strong. Who knows if thats a part of it. Let me say about the domestic politics. When the president gets ready to propose a list of very strong sanctions which i believe he is going to do, i think you can be sure you are going to see a United Congress behind president obama. Thats something that we havent seen hardly ever. I think what ironically is going to happen, congress and the president are going to want to be on the same leadership page when it comes to what you should do about russias intervention in the ukraine. I think it will be conservative and it will be liberal. They are going to join behind him for strong sanctions that are going to have. We heard criticism from people like senator mccain and as you mentioned hearing from republican senator rob saying there needs to be one voice in the white house. We will see how that plays out. Its a test for the president because the president has to go on our allies which he has been trying to do. Angela merkel gets on board and thats another test of the leadership. It sure is. Thank you so much. Up next, as russia denies setting an ultimatum for the military in ukraine, what kind of precedent could this set in congress . We will take you into Vladimir Putins thinking the best we can and the chess battle he is waming right now. 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