this plane and ukraine had this reason to destroy our government. reporter: one thing is for sure. the fighting is very real. we re getting reports right now that in donetsk which is the nearest city to where we are there is active fighting. ukrainian authorities say they plan to retake the city. it could be going on right now. we ll keep you apprised. i want to bring in congressman ed royce, the chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs. when i interviewed this self-appointed prime minister, he refused to answer any question about russia. when i pressed him about whether or not he s getting aid, he said it s not for me to discuss another sovereign. go talk to him. he was surrounded by who i am told are russian military. what do you think the reality is? the reality is exactly that. i was in eastern ukraine and we were in the neighboring state and indeed what we found was
jerusalem. this is unconscionable. that s what s producing civilian casualties. it s not by intent. the intent here by hamas is to have civilian casualties. the intent by israel is to try to prevent it. it s just absolutely ironic that it is portrayed this way given the efforts that israel takes. remember, 2,000 rockets have now been fired at tel aviv and at jerusalem and other cities in israel. what other countries would put up with that kind of conduct by hamas? those rockets these longer range rockets all made by iran. let s not forget iran s contribution to this on going war. again, if iran would quit sending the rockets to hamas, hamas wouldn t have the inventory to do this. chairman royce, thanks for joining us on new day. let s see what the secretary of state can do, if he can do
gaza, the civilians who have been made refugees. has israel gone too far in your opinion, mr. chairman? oh, no, no. i think that s a mischaracterization. i have seen on the ground in these situations the way in which israel goes to the utmost length. they will put their soldiers in harm s way in order, in order to try to minimize civilian casualties. remember, what hamas is doing here. it s putting these rockets specifically, specifically in areas where they ask civilians to come and protect the rockets while their own commanders are under ground in bunkers. this is the thing that really makes me irate. the hamas commanders will go down in the bunkers and they will ask human shields to try to protect the rockets and then they ll light these rockets off and send them to tel aviv or
ground. you ve got this massive influx of russian agents and heavy weaponry and we haven t done anything in response to that. should the u.s. do more to help the ukrainians on the ground, chairman? do you think the united states should be sending weaponry, should the united states be sending people to train the ukrainian forces here? talking about the european leaders, talking netherlands and germ any as well. are you really confident after all this time finally germany, among others, will step forward and say we ll pay a little extra for fuel and maybe levy extra sanctions on russia? now is the time for germany to step forward on this. when we were there, the neighboring state there to donetsk, we had an opportunity, as i indicated, to talk to russian speakers at every level right up from the governor on down to all the leaders in civil society, and the message was the same. there s only one thing that
best attorney that he could possibly have for this. i think that things will be exat the dated. back on what you were talking about president obama, over the last month, president obama has gone to great pains to talk about the fact that as the president of the united states, under his requirements as commander and chief, he will will leave no soldier behind. he has also gone to great pains to say that his responsibility is to look out for every american abroad. i m challenging him and i m asking him to do the right thing, have you done that for another soldier, this soldier nobody has any questions about his commitment to this country. he is an american hero. and he needs to be out. and i m asking the president to call the president of mexico and on humanitarian terms. this is a young man, an hardball man with post-traumatic stress disorder and he needs to be out. you know congressman, chairman royce says he wants it fast tracked. that s what i have been saying all along fast trac