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Join the conversation on twitter http twitter. Com cspanwj or on facebook. You can email us at journal cspan. Org. Join us on the phone is David Jackson who covers the white house for usa today. David, what is the white house mulling over when it comes to russia paying a cost for the continued intervention in ukraine . Guest theyre trying to get their other countries to participate in sanctions against russia, which is proving to be did more difficult than expected. Theyre having a tough time with a global approach, if you will, toward making russia pay economically. They have already instituted or begun the process of instituting domestic sanctions, putting visa restrictions on russians who are deemed to have been involved in the incursion into crimea. Thereve also gone about the process of identifying russians who been involved in trying to freeze our assets and taking other economic actions against them. Theres the talk about tr ....
About from iran to syria to russia. Betweeny connection what were doing in russia and the situation in syria and israel and iran . Guest there is a connection, obviously, and that we have been working with putin to alleviate the Chemical Warfare situation, chemical weapons in syria. And certainly there is some potential implications and how we deal with syria and iran if we sever relationships with putin as a result of ukraine. That is something to consider in the whole scheme of the situation. Host cameron, south carolina, independent caller. Caller yeah, how are you doing . I know a little bit about the region. I spent 15 years theyre putting in the infrastructure in the Eastern Europe ukraine, romania, those countries. Im not an actual expert, but i on. What iis going i have friends there who did me words from the street, crimea and all that good the biggest question i h ....
on tax reform that actually gets our economy moving again. if you look at what the president has been doing on taxes, he loves hiding behind straw men and calling taxes on millionaires and billionaires but if you look at the details it hits hard-working middle-class families in the gut. just last week the president was on billionaires row in san francisco raising more money from his millionaire and billionaire friends. when the president parties with million nares and rock stars he denies that same right to hard-working taxpayers and school groups. so what we re going to file again on monday is the buffet rule. i m going to file it in the house and the senator will file it in the senate. it says if people like warren buffet feel like they are not paying enough in taxes, put your money where your mouth is and there will be a check off box to send in as much money as you want. it will be used to pay down the national debt. we ll see if anyone wants to put their money with ....