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UKRAINE.
WE'RE DEBATING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S
HANDLING OF RUSSIA.
REPUBLICANS ARE PRACTICALLY
CHEERING FOR VLADIMIR PUTIN
TODAY.
HE'S GIVEN THEM A NEW EXCUSE TO
BASH PRESIDENT OBAMA.
REPUBLICANS ARE OUT IN DROVES
SUGGESTING THAT IF THE PRESIDENT
WEREN'T SUCH A WEAK LEADER,
PUTIN WOULDN'T BE THREATENING
THE UKRAINE.
DID THE SAME REPUBLICANS CALL
GEORGE W. BUSH WEAK WHEN HE
INVIDED IN 2008?
NO.
SECOND, WHAT DO OBAMA'S CRITICS
WANT?
THEY WANT ECONOMIC SANCTIONS TO
BE ON THE TABLE.
WELL --
>> THERE COULD EVEN BE
ULTIMATELY ASSET FREEZE, VISA
BANS, THERE COULD BE CERTAINLY
DISRUPTION OF ANY OF THE NORMAL
TRADE ROUTINE.
THERE COULD BE BUSINESS DRAWBACK
ON INVESTMENT IN THE COUNTRY.
>> THERE'S AN OLD RUSSIAN
PROVERB, TO SPITE MY MOM I'LL
FREEZE MY EARS OFF.
DANIELLE, AREN'T REPUBLICANS
SYSTEMATICALLY UNDERMINING THE
PRESIDENT TRYING TO SPITE THE
PRESIDENT BUT IN EFFECT HURTING
AMERICA'S STANDING IN THE WORLD?
>> FIRST OF ALL, I THINK POLLING
SHOWS USES THAT THE PRESIDENT
HAS DONE MORE TO HURT OUR
STANDING IN THE WORLD THAN THE
REPUBLICANS AT THIS POINT.
BUT THAT'S IMMATERIAL.
FIRST OF ALL, LET'S GET A LITTLE
BIT OF HISTORY STRAIGHT.
JOHN McCAIN, WHO YOU GOOIS HAVE
BEEN SHOWING ON ENDLESS LOOP
CRITICIZING THE PRESIDENT ON
UKRAINE, RIPPED GEORGE BUSH'S
HEAD OFF ON THE ISSUE OF
GEORGIA, SO DID LINDSEY GRAHAM,
MERCILESSLY A AND WITHOUT A LOT
OF ATTITUDE FROM THE REPUBLICAN
WHITE HOUSE.
NO LABELING THEM HYPOCRITES.
THEY'RE PEOPLE OF PRINCIPLE.
I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
BUSH MADE A PATHETIC SHOWING IN
GEORGIA, I THINK IT WAS ONE OF
THE THINGS THAT ENCOURAGED PUTIN
TO BELIEVE WITH AN EVEN WEAKER
PRESIDENT HE COULD GO FURTHER.
SECOND OF ALL, THESE AREN'T
GAMES.
ALWAYS LOVELY TO TALK ABOUT
AMERICAN DOMESTIC POLITICS AS IF
IT'S SOMEHOW MORE IMPORTANT THAN
THE LIVES OF THE UKRAINIAN
PEOPLE.
>> I WASN'T SAYING THIS IS A
GAME AT ALL.
>> YOU SAID IT WAS A GAME IN
YOUR OPEN.
>> WELL, THE DIFFERENCE HERE IS
THAT ONCE UPON A TIME WE HAVE
THIS SORT OF GENTLEMAN'S AND
GENTLEWOMAN'S AGREEMENT --
>> NO WE DIDN'T.
>> THAT OUR POLITICS ENDED AT
THE WATER'S EDGE.
>> RUBBISH.
>> INSTEAD OF GETTING BEHIND THE
PRESIDENT AND TOGETHER AS A
COUNTRY UNITING TO DEAL WITH
THIS CRISIS, REPUBLICANS ARE OUT
THERE UNDERMINING THE
PRESIDENT'S LEADERSHIP IN THE
WORLD.
>> IT'S ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE.
FIRST OF ALL, NEVER STOPPED AT
THE WATER'S EDGE, IF YOU RECALL
AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR WE
DIDN'T JOIN THE LEAGUE OF
NATIONS, I THINK THAT WAS
PROBABLY A MOMENT IN THE LAST
CENTURY BEFORE YOU WERE BORN BUT
CERTAINLY WHEN POLITICS DIDN'T
STOP AT THE WATER'S EDGE.
IT NEVER STOPPED AT THE WATER'S
EDGE.
THIS IS ABOUT NATIONAL INTERESTS
AND ABOUT THE SECURITY OF THE
WORLD.
WHAT WE WANT TO ENSURE IS THAT