A historic strike this morning with the Union Workers coordinating a walkout against the big three u. S. Automakers and walking out at the same time for the first time ever, the United Auto Workers union is using a new strategy in this and it is called targeted streaks, with workers at all three numbers will grow, and likely will go if the demands did goward. With the owners of ford, gm and jeep and dodge are on strike. So President Biden is going to weigh in on the strike today, and Vanessa Yurkevich is live at the Head Quarters in detroit, and earlier, you spoke to the ceo of gm, and now that, you know, the threats are reality, and the Contract Negotiations are falling apart, and the strike is under way, what is she saying . Yeah. The big three autoworkers are watching these strikes very, very closely. They are very disappointed shawn fain is speaking out, and i spoke to mary berra the ceo of ford asking about the demand of the 40 increase over four years, and they are tying it to th
the plane if they do find this is the plane off australia, will he go to perth. he says absolutely. he said malaysia airlines assured them if any part of the plane is found, they will be flown to the location. until then, of course, he waits, watches and waits. we ll have much more coming up for you from kuala lumpur. lets get to john berman for today s top stories. we have breaking news. russia s upper house of parliament giving unanimous approval making crimea part of the russian federation. in the meantime the european union has joined the u.s. in expanding sanctions over moscow s move on crimea. president obama targeted nearly two dozen members of vladimir putin s inner circle. in response russia has banned nine u.s. officials from that country including house speaker john boehner and senator john mccain. senator john mccain s response. i guess this means spring break in sibera is off. an army general planning to retire now that a judge reprimanded him in a closely
sanctions on u.s., or whatever. that doesn t sound like a big deal to me, but what s your analysis? i think vladimir putin is loving that. this is a guy who said that the soviet union s collapse was the greatest tragedy of his life, virtually. so now he gets to look like he s going toe-to-toe with the other superpower with the united states. you have sanctions on us. we have sanctions on you. he s a dominant figure on the international stage. he s very popular at home. i think in many ways, this is really what he s always wanted. so if the u.s. imposes sanctions, travel restrictions on leading members of the russian parliament or some senior foreign policy advisers, they do the same thing to dick durbin, senator from illinois or john mccain, and that s going to be that? is that where this is going? well, i think unless he goes further. the question is what are the additional events that take place? if it s just crimea, i think robert gates is sadly probably right. that crimea is
national journal. so what do you make? i guess crimea according to putin is now part of russia, but is that it? is he going to stop with crimea or continue to try to take other parts of ukraine? well, i think the conventional wisdom would be that sending your forces into eastern ukraine would be a bad idea. will be very much harder to control. a much more open area. really would need military resistan resistance. also it s an economic basket case. let s say you do manage to control it. i think that what he s still doing is putting pressure on the government in kiev. i think one of the things that s really significant about that speech is he said this is not a legitimate government, which is to me code for saying i m going to either try to bring this government down, or try to bring it to its knees and force it to become more russian. i think that might be the next move. the u.s. and the european union, they opposed some sanctions, a couple dozen russians and crimeans, if you will,
against russia. president putin alluded to those sanctions during his speech to his parliament this morning. translator: as far as ukraine is concerned, our partners have crossed a line. this is unprofessional and unacceptable. russia is an independent country. part of the international community thereof. national interests that we need to be taken into account and respected. we do not want to divide ukraine. we do not need that, as far as crimea is concerned. crimea was and remains russian. got lots of applause for saying that. putin, after his speech, the white house announced president obama will meet next week with g7 members to discuss the ukraine. that s the g8 without russia. joining us is a contributing editor at the atlantic and the