representative bea nguyen, the first vietnamese-american to be elected to the georgia statehouse. we were speaking to lisa ling. she said too often when there are killings like this, we focus on the suspect, on the shooter. we don t ask what should be the first question which is, tell me about the victims. how are the victims? how are the people targeted? in this case, the six asian women who were killed, but also the asian american community in general. so that s my first question to you. how are you doing? what are the feelings within the community this morning. well, thank you for asking about that. i think one of the most important things we should do right now is center the victims and their families and center the asian american commune ity here in georgia but across the country. it s been a hard it s been a hard couple of days. we re very overwhelmed. there is increased fear amongst our community but there s also deep pain and anger. as you mentioned before, so oft
so on the first issue. i think probably the biggest surprise for putin, such a big surprise, i don t think he s really absorbed yet. is how united the ukrainians are. that s i think the most important factor here. he was expecting to win this war in 72 hours and instead we re heading towards, the end of the second month. and it s been the ukrainians, because they ve resisted, who ve given nato and the west and other allies time to unite and to take serious measures. that of course means that everything looks different from the point of view of moscow. and indeed, the strange thing here is how, in a certain way putin is the last to know. he is in this classic tyrannical position where he s taken this big gamble on the basis of an ideology, which is simply wrong. and it s going to be harder for people to talk to him about what s actually going on. so you mentioned the people, you know, in some kind of middle circle round him who doubt this is going well. that s one group.
and it s been the ukrainians, because they ve resisted, who ve given nato and the west and other allies time to unite and to take serious measures. that of course means that everything looks different from the point of view of moscow. and indeed, the strange thing here is how, in a certain way putin is the last to know. he is in this classic tyrannical position where he s taken this big gamble on the basis of an ideology, which is simply wrong. and it s going to be harder for people to talk to him about what s actually going on. so you mentioned the people, you know, in some kind of middle circle round him who doubt this is going well. that s one group. there s another group of people who sees the cited already are his enemies. people who are once fairly important to intelligence or propaganda circles. who are now reportedly in prison or under house arrest. but beyond that, you can see
administration officials tell nbc that kerry told russian foreign minister lavrov he won t engage in talks until russia stops its military advances and backs away from sunday s referendum. jim maceda has more on what s going on from the point of view of moscow. reporter: the ousted ukrainian president, viktor yanukovych appeared again in southern russia. he told journalists he was still the only legitimate leader of ukraine, echoing the kremlin s position there. in kiev sumarily firing government officials and that mass men were patroling the streets of he kiev and that crimea was about to secede from ukraine. meanwhile, russian or pro-russian forces have taken control of virtually all the ukrainian military bases in
objections of the u.s. and its allies. if there is a referendum and it votes to move crimea out of ukraine and to russia, we won t recognize it, and most of the world won t either. nbc s jim maceda has more on the situation from the point of view of moscow. reporter: hey, chuck. well, six days now before the crimean referendum, and russian and pro-russian forces are further tightening their hold over the peninsula. ukrainian sources saying there are now 20,000 to 30,000 russian troops that s two to three divisions on crimea, and controlling at least 11 ukrainian border posts. even the stretch between crimea and ukraine proper has become a de facto border with reports of fresh minefields between the two sides. and with no international observers allowed in and putin showing no signs of flexibility, despite all of the diplomacy and threats of sanctions against russia, it looks pretty clear that crimea, a week from now,