World leaders. Venezuela protests and the red carpet is out for the Academy Award. Today ukraine mobilized its military after russia took over the Southern Region of crimea. The country is on the brink of disaster warns the acting president. Russian troops have surrounded a base, and the ukrainian Prime Minister called it a declaration of war. The head of the ukraine navy has been fired for treesons after swearing alegion to an autonomous crimea. Support in the south seems to be unanimous. Laurence lee has this report from sevastapol. This appears to be the one place that Ukraine Forces in crimea are putting up resistance behind the walls, the Ukrainian Special forces base. The ukrainian flag is up and they refuse to give in. ProRussian Forces appear relaxed. All as if to say they are here to stop anyone harming civilians. A priest turned up. He was blessing soldiers. Whether it end peacefully, i ask, no, they planned this for 20 years. Elsewhere theres no sign of Ukrainian Forces at a
Former division chief of the cia office of soviet affairs argues that our current level of spending on defense is excessive and is making us less secure. This 45 Minute Program is next on book tv. Thank you for that introduction and for the invitation to come out here to discuss the book. Let me say a few things on why i wrote the book in the first place. Several years ago, bob gates the secretary of defense noted before he announced he was going to leave the administration that he was going to go back to the state of washington. This is someone i followed closely over the years. I testified against him in 1991 when he was nominated to be the cia director. And as an obama supporter of course i was shocked to find out who was crowned be kept on as obama secretary of defense but when he told people i found interesting and was the major reason i wanted to write this book and what he said was we are moving towards a smaller military that will do fewer things and be able to go fewer places
The local there appears to be no imminent threat of a shooting war in ukraine. That is why the market is going straight up. Look at that. All in green. Now take a look at the s p 500. That is record territory. The new intraday high was 1869. Now we have hit 1874 the i say this market just wants to go up. The lack of a shooting war in ukraine is a good excuse. The industrial names are leading this. The risk on trade is coming back. Stuart it is not our beloved Technology Stocks . Technology stocks . Sandra has been in big momentum player but it is not the leader in this rally today, but i know i will tee up charles when i say this, the fed has not gone out of our business yet so how do you know if this rally can sustain itself . Charles i dont care. You talked people out of this we know what the fed is doing. Janet yellen tells us they tapered twice, they announced on december 17th, we are up here is the bottom line. You hit the nail on the head with industrials, we are rebuilding ameri
Start. Shell be along shortly. Its wednesday, november 28th. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. An extraordinary interview with the Washington Post coming up in a bit. We start with the russia investigation. A clearer picture this morning what Robert Mueller may know about trump confidante roger stones effort to get documents from wikileaks. Cnn obtained Court Documents apparently written by muellers office. They cite emails between stone and his associate, rightwing author jerome corsi, during the 2016 campaign. In them stone pushes coresy to get in Team Coverage with wikileaks founder julian assange, and corsi reports back assange has document dumps that will damage Hillary Clinton in the works. Sara murray with more. Reporter good morning. Jerome corsis legal troubles could be giving a glimpse into special counsel Robert Muellers potential collusion case. Corsi, an associate of roger stone, shared a pile of draft documents with cnn that allegedly show stone pushing corsi to try to obtain