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>> I WANT TO GET YOUR TAKE FIRST
OFF ON WHAT RUSSIAN PRESIDENT
VLADIMIR PUTIN SAID TODAY IN HIS
LENGTHY PRESS CONFERENCE IN PART
SAYING RUSSIA IS ON A
HUMANITARIAN MISSION IN UKRAINE
IN RESPONSE TO A COUP AND HE
SAYS RUSSIA ISN'T DOING ANYTHING
DIFFERENT THAN THE U.S. HAS IN
LIBYA AND AFGHANISTAN.
>> I THINK THAT EITHER HE DOES
NOT HAVE THE FACTS, HE IS BEING
FED PROPAGANDA OR HIS OWN
PROPAGANDA.
IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
THERE ARE NO CALLS FOR
ASSISTANCE.
THIS IS NOT SOMETHING WHERE AS
ANDERSON JUST REPORTED THAT IN
FACT THERE IS NOT THIS KIND OF A
CRISIS IN TERMS OF THE WAY THAT
THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING PEOPLE ARE
IN SOME WAY BEING HARMED.
AND SO THIS IS ALL MADE UP.
AND I THINK IT'S PART OF A MUCH
LONGER TERM PLAN THAT PUTIN HAS
HAD WHICH IS TO TRY TO RECREATE
SOME FORM OF RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN UKRAINE AND MOSCOW.
I THINK THAT IS THE TRAGEDY
THAT'S GOING ON.
PUTIN IS IN MANY WAYS, I THINK,
DELUSIONAL ABOUT THIS.
>> IF HE IS DELUSIONAL AS YOU
SAY AND WORKING NOT ON THIS
WORLD AS SOME ARE SAYING, THAT
MAKES THE QUESTION ALL THE MORE
IMPORTANT, WHAT CAN THE U.S. DO?
WHAT CAN SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN
KERRY DO WHEN HE TOUCHES GROUND
IN KIEV TO STOP THIS?
>> WELL, PRESIDENT OBAMA ASKED
SECRETARY KERRY TO GO.
PRESIDENT OBAMA IS LEADING
REALLY THE PLANNING OF HOW THIS
HAS WORKED, WHICH ARE THE TOOLS
THAT CAN BE USED.
WHAT SKAIR KERRY IS GOING TO DO
IS GO AND SHOW AMERICAN SUPPORT
FOR THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE.
THIS IS ALL ABOUT WHAT THE
PEOPLE OF UKRAINE WANT.
THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE
DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR OWN LIVES
AND LIVE IN THEIR COUNTRY PIECE
ANY IN A FRIENDLY WAY BOTH WITH
RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEANS.
KERRY IS GOING TO BE SUPPORTIVE
OF THE PEOPLE.
HE'S GOING TO MEET WITH THE
LEADERS AND TALK ABOUT A PACKAGE
OF IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE, WHICH
THEY NEED.
THAT YOU CAN TO THEM ABOUT HOW
THEY CAN GET READY FOR ELECTIONS
AND TO BE ABLE TO RUN THE
COUNTRY.
THEY WERE ELECTED BY THE
PARLIAMENT, THIS LEADERSHIP.
SO I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT
THAT SECRETARY KERRY IS THERE.