perhaps too much including his jealousy of magic johnson? we have the entire recording. >> i'm talking to a girl. i'm trying to have sex with her. i'm trying to play with her. you know, if you want to have sex with a girl and you're talking to her privately and you don't think anybody is there, you may say anything in the world. then if the girl tapes it and releases it, my god, it's awful. who thinks anybody is going to tape something. what the hell? i'm talking to a girl. the girl is black. i like her. i'm jealous that she's with other black girls. i want her. what the hell can i in private tell her? i don't want you to be with anybody. can i am i a person? i wish magic johnson was talking to a girl. and you might say anything, i would have said i could fly over a high-rise building if i had to. and you're talking to her, then you go away and three months later, what you said when you were hot is real leased. i have a girl here who has black kids and is i love the girl. she's telling me you're wrong. i know i'm wrong. i know what i said was wrong but i never thought the private conversation would go anywhere out to the public. i didn't want her to bring anybody to my game because i was jealous. i'm being honest. it doesn't matter. no one's going to hear it but you and me. >> so is donald sterling playing the victim card? stephanie elam joins from la. do we sympathize or think this is a pr stunt? >> i think it was an attempt to get some sympathy there. it's very late. he has never put out anything on the record. it is always through recordings. and he says yeah, i did say it but it was all in an effort to have sex. i doesn't make sense. i don't understand the the logic there at all. he does say that he didn't think anyone is going to hear this. and it shows he has a massive jealousy issue with magic johnson. >> magic johnson is a pretty accomplished guy. certainly no reason to invoke the things that he did in his conversation with v. stiviano. when you're looking at recordings like this, is this something that could impact the legal battle that he's facing? >> maybe that was his attempt but the nba has been very clear that they are not changing his position. and he did at mid that he said what he said. that doesn't change things. people have been discounting shelly sterling and the part she plays in this. >> i think it would be a very hard situation. i will say that much. i think it would be very difficult. i guarantee you every person wouldn't be on board with that. >> everyone has a price. has miss sterling identified her? >> she has enough money in her life and for her children and grandchildren. she loves the team. players love her. doc rivers has been very supportive of her and she is supportive of them. mrs. sterling wants to retain her 50% ownership interest in her lifetime. >> and it's also interesting to note that he does say in her lifetime. the other 50% being owned by donald. and you heard from the coach there. in the beginning he seemed to be very supportive of her but now seems a little more hesitant. >> and also maybe just wanting all of this to go away. stephanie, thank you so much for that. and happening now, one of the most controversial football players in the country is hold ing a conference coming up. he mesmerized fans for his scrambling ability earning the nickname johnny football. last night cleveland picked him in the 22 spot. let's listen as he holds that news conference on the draft. >> there's a gap that i have to close of learning the offense and getting caught up to speed. i'm obviously a rookie and i need to put some time in to be good. >> can you talk a little about we see the persona, the pictures with drake. you're friends with lebron. are you, you know, is that, you know, kind of who you are? are you bringing some of that star power and sort of celebrity, big life theme here to cleveland here with you? >> i don't think about that a whole lot. those guys have been awesome to me. we've developed friendships over the past year and a half. i don't look at it as celebrity or star or anything like that. i look at it as just having gris that care about me and friends that happen to be in a bigger spotlight. i love being involved in sports. i above watching basketball. i think any guy in our position loves listening to music. so, these guys reached out to me and i reached out to them and we have been friends. i think it's extremely cool and i'm very glad to have them in my corner. >> extremely cool. that was the new cleveland browns quarterback johnny manzi manziel. he fell to the 22ennd pick in t draft. what happened, prin? i would think that would be extremely cool. i just have them on my i pod. >> you have got to understand that johnny manziel is probably one of the most polarizing athletes in the history of college football and definitely the history of the predraft. half of the experts thought he would go number one and others say that he is undraftable. his suspension from the team because he was getting paid for autographs for half a game. he got himself in a little bit of a problem with a buddy's -- with a friends fight. he has remained controversial. he's just a kid, only 21 years old. he didn't really slip. 22 is really good. >> it's not bad but if you went first in the draft, that's extremely cool. what about all of this controversy. how are cleveland fans reacting to this? >> i think cleveland is going to embrace him with open arms. they need someone like this. they haven't had this much excitement since lebron left. >> didn't they sell a ton of season tickets overnight? >> the season tickets, can you imagine being the person that is taking the calls for season tickets? the phone was ringing off the hook. the cleveland brown ticket office sold 1500 tickets in the first 12 hours. >> that's a lot of cha ching for the team. thank you so much, brian. >> coming up, cnn's exclusive investigation of potentially deadly wait times for veterans seeking care. we have more information on a cover up to falsify or erase wait times for veterans. >> and a shocking report out of nigeria. the government there hadded ad e advanced warning of the kidnapping of schoolgirls by hours. why didn't they do anything to stop it? we have a lot going on in the news room. stay with us. (music) defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. calcium citrate plus d. highly soluble, easily absorbed. >> investigators want to know whether any veterans possibly died as a result. these allegations come from a hospital scheduling clerk who spoke pubically for the first time to our drew griffin. the clerk explained how wait times were allegedly manipulated. >> it could be three months and it looks like 14 days. >> it could be three months and look like no days. >> so fudging the books is my -- >> it's your -- >> i would call it that. you can call it that. the va calls it zeroing out. >> the va's official policy is all patients should be able to see a medical professional within 14 days. we found the claims by this employee were not substantiated. this comes after allegations of secret wait lists and deadly delays at a phoenix va hospital. senator john mccain will hold a forum in phoenix to discuss veterans care. joining me from phoenix, dan kald caldwell is the issue and legislative manager for concerned veterans. thanks so much for being with us. va secretary ordered this audit. you are calling on him to resign now? what needs to happen to fix the va's problems? >> first of all we think that the secretary needs to go. since 2009 he has failed to lead the va in an effective and efficient way. the backlog. he has failed to properly manage and implement new programs and serve veterans in an efficient and timely manner. the next thing the va needs is more accountability. that's why we think it's important that congress and the president sign into law the va management accountability act. >> let me ask you this. senator mccain has not called for him to step down. >> i understand the senator's position that the investigation needs to be completed at the phoenix va, but i also would say that our group and the american legion are not calling for the secretary to resign just because of phoenix. our group feels there has been a long pattern of mismanagement and failure at the senior level and this is not just based on one incident or city. it goes to the backlog. it goes to confirmed deaths from delayed care in other cities across the country. the veiled roll out of the post 911 g.i. bill. again, i understand what he's trying to say that we need this investigation to be kpleeded. we think it is actually time for him to go now. >> you heard that allegation of zeroing out the wait times here. you would think if that is happening, there's a reason that precipitates that. do you think that va hospitals have enough staff to meet the 14 day period which is their official policy for when treatment should be received? 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>> no. if they cared about the presidential, they would be passing an immigration bill. this is all about them. i think it's pretty clear. their focus on the affordable care act has run its course and now they have to find something else to talk about. >> of course in the short term there is no question that the idea of even having this committee now just a few months from the november midterm election that probably riles up the republican base is political. no republican with a straight face can say it's not. the fact that nancy pelosi answered that so quickly indicated that she has thought about this and she thinks its all about november. other democrats think it is very much about hillary clinton and trying to woo her for the presidential if she runs. >> how do we know it's about politics? it's 2014. they're not doing anything but politics. >> not at all. >> thanks. >> more than two months after flight 370 vanished, there is another open letter demanding that officials take the search back to the drawing board and reanalyze the information that they have. they question how authorities can be certain that a 777 crashed into the indian ocean since there is no physical evidence and concerns are being echoed in a new report today in the atlantic which claims many experts claim the search could be happening not just in the wrong spot but in the wrong ocean. >> the map of the pings is straightforward. it's like a game of marco polo. so you get these basic characteristics of what you expect the responses to look like. the satellite is not moving relative to that position so you would expect there to be no free onecy shifts. something is off with the original interpretation. >> now joining me now is a cnn safety analyst accident investigator and author of why planes crash. david, can you explain this new report to us? what led to this different conclusion? >> they're not questioning the data. what they're questioning is the analysis of the data. that's very important to point out. i spoke to one of the scientists quoted in the article. it is something that they are re-evaluating within themselves. it goes to the complexity of the information. right now there is very good reason to believe that according to the report that this information was analyzed improperly and did not consider the delay that happens from the satellite to the earth's station it also doesn't consider that the aircraft itself can off set and anticipate where the signal would be. it anticipates that and does that change. so that's the things they're looking at. they still need one piece of information to make this stand and take that from the questioned analysis and turn it into real data as far as where that aircraft would or wouldn't be in there's a big question as to where this aircraft is and if we have been looking in the wrong place all along. >> this report compares the pings to a game of marco polo. but the article says the pings only tell you how far away the pings are, not what direction. what do you think led searchers to this southern area to begin with. if we talk about handshakes, once the handshake was made, the communication that went through that connection take astern amount of time. not only do they know how far away it is from the satellite but they can also learn from that how quickly it's moving away from the satellite while your hands are connected. once the handshake is done, they can measure that through doppler and that is what this doppler term is all about. if the satellite was stationary it would be so much easier. we would know that we had a fixed place in space but that is not the case. it's unable to stay in a continuous earth or bit so it's doing this elliptical movement moving north and south in a number of miles. not just a few feet. it's going two or three miles so it depends on what time and wear that doppler was received as to whether or not it's accurate. and that's what this report is partially pointing out. i think that's the most critical change is how it's related to the location. they don't think that was considered properly. >> we have more questions to ask you and we will get to that right after a quick break. cut! 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>> what was missing was this base frequency offset, which is the amount of time and the relationship. something about the relationship between the satellite and the airplane. >> two moving objects. >> exactly, and then you have this air to earth satellite frequency adjustment. we're going to pretend that we're not really where they are. that identification is kind of what is missing now. this is called the aes. that is still the piece of information that we need. and from there they can do a whole other analysis and make sure. we don't know that the inmarsat didn't consider this information until you start looking at the results that they did publish. that is why this is so important. there is discrepancies between their output. they say here is where it was and you compare that to calculations, and they don't line up. they really don't line up. there is something that wasn't considered. we don't know what it was but we can speculate that what was missing was this compensation for the fact that the doppler is also being transmitted, the time that it goes from the satellite down to the earth. that relationship is moving, too. so this is really complicated extremely high math, we will call it new math because it's new to me. >> and there's nothing the matter with asking more very informed and smart people to take a look at it. david, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> u.s. military advisors arrived in nigeria to help find kidnapped schoolgirls. this rescue attempt happening as an explosive report surfaces, how much did the nigerian government know or when? amnesty international claims it has evidence that the security forces knew of the impending attack hours ahead of time but failed to act as the girls were being herded out of their beds into the jungles of northern nigeria. several managed to flee and one is sharing her escape. cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of this video. >> joining me now, john campbell. ambassador, thanks for joining us. i want to talk to you a lot about this report. it claims that nigeria did not act on intelligence because apparently commanders could not raise enough forces to respond. cnn has reached out to the nigerian government but we do not have a response yet. what can you tell us about their military's abilities or inabilities when it comes to destabilizing. >> the security services are overstretched. it is frequently said that boko haram outguns military forces. boko haram is unbelievable murderous when it comes to the security forces. any i member of the army or police who fall into their hands is liable or even likely to have his throat cut. >> so they're afraid. they're very afraid. security forces are afraid. do you think they might not want to gather to address the situation? is that how bad it is? >> they are afraid but there is also the question of actual resources. the amnesty report implies that military could not gather sufficient troops fast enough to respond. by the way, in my own experience, amnesty international in nigeria is quite credible. >> that is good to know. you have military advisors in nigeria. what should their plan be now? have you ever seen something like a kidnapping like this probably not on this scale but resolved in a way that you don't have deaths? >> yes. it happened during the insurgency in the nigerian delta and what is going on now. it was finally all about money. when you're talking about money you can do deals. the insurgency in northern nigeria, at least if you pay attention to boko haram rhetoric, their goal is to establish god's kingdom on earth with justice for the poor through the imposition of islamic law. i would submit this is not a political program and it's also not about money. that means it is extraordinarily difficult to deal with. you are asking what essentially the next step should be. the first thing is to consult with the nigerians about what they want, what they are willing to take, and then together figure out what the next steps are going to be. it's the nigh yearians who will have to take the lead in this. it's the nigerians who will have to find the schoolgirls. all outsiders can do is try to facilitate their efforts. >> let hope that there is progress made on that front. ambassador, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> definitely. and we mentioned that amnesty international's claims about the government knowing ahead of time. and you heard our guest say this is a very credible group. and coming up next, police in georgia are scrambling to find clues to a gruesome crime. an 88-year-old man murdered in his home. the man was decapitated and his head is missing from the scene. >> mr. berman's head was decapitated and we do not know the where abouts of his head. >> more on this chilling story right after the break. you think you take off all your make-up before bed. but do you really? 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what does this mean for the team. here is more. jason. >> it could mean a lot of things. first of all a man that is highly respected. he's an african-american. also what you're seeing here, pamela, is more evidence that the nba is move iing forward. basically saying that they were moving forward with the search with the clippers new ceo. this announcement today is further proof that they are doing just that. also when you think about this, remember what sterling's wife has been saying that she wants to remain in control of the clippers. she has 50% ownership of the clippers. she wants to be a passive owner. the nba is moving forward without donald sterling, without shelly steriling and trying to get the clippers back on track. >> the ceo stepped down last week. here we are with the new ceo. thank you. i'm going to talk more about this with hln legal analyst and joey jackson. branding and social media consultant peter shankman. tell us, the nba has said, you know, very little time appointing the new ceo. what do you make of this pick in particular. richard parsons is a high profile man. what do you think about it? >> richard parsons is a phenomenal choice. they are going to use him for a while. the bigger picture is that the nba is making a statement saying you know what? we're not going to wait for this to blow over and to handle the situation as needed. the best thing they could have done. parsons was responsible for the aol time warner merger back in the late 90s. very well respected in the community. this is a brush off of sterling. this says we don't care what you're saying. we don't care that you want control and you want a lawsuit. we're moving forward because we have the power and because we can and we want to focus on basketball. the buzzer is sort of winding down here. this is a very strong move here. >> but the controversy resolving around sterling continues. we will get to that with a new audio recording today. i want to go to you first talking about the new ceo that we're just finding out about. do you think this is a legal move to help the nba gain control? >> the train has left the station and the reality is that the nba, they have dual spobl responsibility, right? first and foremost they have legal obligations that they have to tend to. but they certainly have a fan base and they have players and other people that they have to insure, you know, feel that they're respected and working hard, that those efforts, you know, that they engage in to win championships, that they can do it in an environment that is respectful. i think what the nba is doing is they're saying listen, we have an obligation to fans and community. this is in the future to disassociate their self with them. silver said that this is serious about irradicating any thoughts of racism on this nba community. >> this is something that goes along with that. you didn't mention the advertisers. there was talk of pulling ads and spoon snsorship. they said you know what? we're not wasting time. they were looking at potential losses and they pretty much saved that. they plugged that hole in the ship. >> absolutely right. >> they had a huge incentive, that's for sure. this is all going on as we find out about the new secret tapes released of donald sterling. more where he supposedly explains why he made racist comments that were caught on tape. on the tape, sterling allegedly admits to an unidentified person that he spoke out of turn because he wanted to sleep with his lady friend, v. stiviano. we have been unable to confirm that it is indeed him. we have the recording for you in its entirety. take a listen. >> but i'm talking to a girl. i'm trying to have sex with her. i'm trying to play with her. what you know, if you are trying to have sex with a girl and you're talking to her privately and you don't think anybody's there, you may say anything in the world. what difference does it make? then if the girl tapes it and releases it, my god it's awful. who thinks anybody's going to tape something? what the hell, i'm talking to a girl. the girl is black. i like her. i'm jealous that she's with other black guys. i want her. what the hell can i in private tell her? you know? i don't want you to be with anybody? do i have -- can i -- am i a person? do i have freedom of speech? i wish magic johnson was talking to a girl. and you are trying to play with her. you might say anything. i would have said i could fly over a high-rise building if i had to. the next thing, three months later, what you said when you were hot trying to get her is rae leased. i have a girl here who has black kids and is partly black, i think, myself. i love the girl. she's telling me you're wrong. i know i'm wrong. i never thought the private conversation would go anywhere. out to the public. i didn't want her to bring anybody to my games because i was jealous. i'm being honest. and, no one's going to hear it but you and me, so -- >> all right. where to begin with this? paul? peter i should say? my bad. i'm going to start with you. he says no one is going to hear this but me and you. he has not come out to pubically speak and apologize and explain his comments and it makes you wonder whether this was staged and whether he's trying to do this in an attempt to look like the victim here. obviously image is everything. >> the fact that he said at the very end, it may have been saying it is staged. no one's going to hear it anyway and fade to black. the meta aspect of this, you just want to look and say you need to stop talking now to everyone. go. oh my god. live on an island and don't talk to anyone. >> even if this isn't staged, don't talk. >> no talking. >> let's talk about the legal side of this i'm going to go -- could this help or hurt donald sterling. >> certainly you can argue that it's contrived. >> and particularly, you are insulting her. is that how you really get a woman in her good graces. i think certainly it doesn't help them at all. it could hurt them in fact. i think legally the nba is on very firm ground in terms of getting three quarters of the ownership to go forward. it's a private organization. the nba is on firm legal ground. >> thank you for joining us. >> and you. >> i want to turn now to the exclusive investigation of potentially deadly wait times. we have explosive new allegations of a cover up to falsify or erase wait times for veterans. right now senator john mccain, a war hero is holding a forum in phoenix to discuss veteran's care issues. and secret waiting lists at a hospital in phoenix arizona. let's go straight to cnn investigations in washington. you have learned oo eed another hospital is being investigated. tell us about that. >> pam, federal investigators are looking into several va hospitals. right now the biggest focus is on phoenix where cnn investigation found that 40 veterans died waiting for care. many of those veterans were placed on a secret list designed to hide the fact that some veterans were waiting almost two years to see a doctor. the va office of inspector general has a team on the ground. investigators are looking into similar allegations of delayed care in fort collins, colorado, and in san antonio, texas. we spoke exclusively with a whistle blower in san antonio who was told to make it look like veterans were not waiting for points. >> i believe for the last year after, coaching schedulers to change those dates in order for them to look better. they could be a three month wait period and they're showing nothing. >> cnn has been asking the secretary to comment on delayed care for months. next week, he will have to answer questions when he testifies before a senate committee. >> the veteran's affair secretary is a cabinet position. what does the white house have to say about all of this. >> they say that they are awaiting the results. >> holding an open forum to discuss more. stunning new developments this hour when it comes to the kidnapped schoolgirls in nigeria. amnesty internation aal said th government knew about the kidnapping four hours ahead of time but couldn't stop it. it's probably happened to you. you've lost a cell phone or had it stolen. many are calling for kill switches to make the phone useless for anyone other than the owners. our next guess isn't so sure about this idea. we will tell you about that right after this break. stay with us. that's epic, bro. whatever happened to good? 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>> it would be a logical deterrent and the numbers show that we have a very bad smart phone theft problem. the reason they're stolen is because they're so expensive and there's clearly a black market for the stolen phones. i'm sure there are places that you can go and find them for a lot cheaper than they are supposed to be sold. they are not officially real new phones that have not been owned by someone else. the kill switch opens up an access lane for hackers and who knows what they can do with it. imagine if they put an e-mail attachment and it activates the kill switch and now you have a $700 kill switch. i think some of the software kill switches, these pass codes that are required to activate the phones or e-mail addresses and passwords that are required to get the phones to work once they are stolen that you can activate on the iphone. i think those are great steps as well. this is useless to me. there are still plenty of valuable parts here that can be taken out. i think a good solution would be a nationwide data base of stolen phones and their serial numbers. the cell providers. >> we will see how all of this plays out in other states. thank you for offering your perspective. >> can you believe it's been nearly 20 years? 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>> i think the message is that putin successfully annexed crimea. he violated international law. this is an annexation not recognized by anyone. just this morning we saw continued slashed and up to 20 people might be dead. >> he is clearly flexing these muscles today. and to sort of piggy back, what do you think the direct message is here ukraine? >> i think the message is russia is in full control of crimea. when he was celebrating with the black sea fleet, they seriously damaged their armed forces as well. to try to stop the activities in the eastern ukraine. the message is that they won't be successful. >> just curious, do you know what the reception was like for pu tmpbl in. >> and coming up right here, it has been two months since flight 370 has been missing. first a disturbing new report that the nigerian government was warned about the kidnapping. 24/7. i'm sorry, i'm just really reluctant to try new things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? look! mommy's new vacuum! 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>> we went there and none of them were there. only the parents. we enter the bush almost 86 kilometers from the area. we were over there. but you people, you will lose your life. >> and we are now learning about an explosive report from amnesty international claiming it is evidence that the government knew boko haram was going to strike four hours ahead of time. apparently they couldn't scramble together enough forces to respond. so, if you would, just starting off here, tell us where did you intelligence come from and the evidence come from to support this report? >> absolutely. amnesty international spoke with senior officials and local officials in the region to gather evidence that we released this morning that the nigerian government knew up to four hours in advance that these attacks would happen and did not take adequate action to prevent them. >> you said they didn't take adequate action. did they not respond at all? did they try to respond? what happened? >> we have evidence that there were a little more than a dozen nigerian military troops if you will that attempted to repel the boko haram attackers but were unsuccessful in that and given that they knew many hours in advance that this attack was going to happen, indeed we found evidence that a boko haram fighter had gone through the town asking where the girl's school was and the nigerian military forces did not take action to get reinforcements and do what they needed to do to protect the civilians. >> we have reached out to the nigerian government. how about amnesty international. what is the response to this explosive report? >> none that we have been able to have from them. we reached out to the nigerian military and no response. >> christine, the nigerian government first told the world they had rescued the girls when we learned they haven't. the girls are still kidnapped. what do you think this all means, the way this is played out, the way the government has reacted. do you think it's a reflection of them trying to save face? >> that's certainly what it looks like. our first and foremost concern is the safety of these girls. the fact that they have been inactive for several weeks. >> all right. thank you and of course we will be awaiting a response back from the nigerian government on this. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> more than two months after flight 370 vanished, the heartbroken families sent another letter demanding they take the information back to the drawing board. they question how authorities can be certain that the boeing 777 crashed into the indian ocean since there is no physical evidence. many satellite experts believe the search could be happening not just in the wrong spot but in the wrong ocean. >> the math is somewhat straightforward. i describe it as being a game like marco polo. you have got the satellite sending pings and you have got these basic characteristics. one of those, for example, is that the plane is stationary on the runway before take-off and the satellite isn't moving relative to that position. you would expect there to be no frequency shifts. if you look at the beginning of the graphic, it's up to 85 hertz. something is off with that interpretation. >> joining me now to discuss this is an accident investigator. so how exactly did they come to doubt what this investigation has hinged on. >> we have been hearing from scientists who are very legitimate scientists. they have been asking us to communicate as much as we could to inmarsat and malaysia did release that information. when they took a look at that information, they said wait a minute. this doesn't make sense. the analysis is wrong. the data is not incorrect. that inmarsat provided the correct data. what they tried to figure out is how are we going to figure out where this came from? there's still one piece of information missing. they want more information for the scientists. >> david, this report compares the pings to a game of marco polo. but the article says the pings only tell you how far away the plane is, not the direct. so in that light, what do you think led searchers to this southern ark? >> what it's telling you is that the relationship between how far away or how close the handshaker is to the satellite. as it goes further away it can be further away south or to the north. and then the ones flying in the southern route and let's compare the two together the ones that they received from the north were different from those in the south. what this report questions is there is a relationship between the movement of the satellite and the receiving ground station. the question is, is the relationship different than the relationship between the ground station and the aircraft in the south? that raises more questions and it goes right back to where is this information not being shared and why is it not? 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"the lead" with jake tapper starts now. check out vladimir putin today strutting around crimea like he's sinatra of the sands. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead, russia's president swaggering around like he owns the place, making his first visit to crimea since russia annexed it from ukraine will ask our guest senator john mccain, is this the first of many in the putin ukrainian crisis. anyone who tells you that the absence grows fonder was not thinking about the white house. hillary clinton is every