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WITH ME FROM "LOS ANGELES TIMES"
BILL CRYSTAL.
LETS START WITH THE ONE THING
VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS DONE TO UNITE
WASHINGTON.
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WANT
TO BE ON HIS SANCTIONS LIST.
THEY ARE BRAGGING ABOUT IT.
MARY LANDRIEU IN A TOUGH
RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN SAYS IT'S A
BADGE OF HONOR.
JOHN McCAIN SAYS I GUESS IT
MEANS MY SPRING BREAK IN SIBERA
IS OFF.
A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL CRIMEA IS
LOST AND PRESIDENT OBAMA AND
WHITE HOUSE HAVE THE NOT BEEN
ABLE TO AGREE ON SANCTIONS AND
AID PACKAGE.
SHOULD THEY STOP LAUGHING AND
START WORKING.
>> FINE FOR ONE DAY.
CRIMEA LOOKS LIKE IT LOST, PUTIN
LOOKS LIKE HE LOST.
CAN WE WIN UKRAINE AS A PRICE
PERHAPS OF LOSING CRIMEA.
THINGS HAVE TO BE DONE, BIGGER
RAMPING UP OF SANCTIONS I WOULD
SAY.
ALSO MILITARY RELATIONSHIPS WITH
NATO RELATIONSHIPS AROUND
RUSSIA, GROUND TROOPS.
SAYING THAT SHOULD NOT BE RULED
OUT TO UKRAINE.
ACROSS TWO ROADS THAT GO FROM
UKRAINE TO CRIMEA, SECURING
UKRAINE WOULDN'T BE A CRAZY
THING BUT NOBODY IN WASHINGTON
WANTS TO TALK ABOUT GROUND
TROOPS.
I AGREE A LITTLE LESS CUTE AND
MORE SERIOUS ABOUT DOING STUFF
THAT MIGHT HELP PUSH BACK
AGAINST PUTIN.
>> PRESIDENT WAS SERIOUS ABOUT
THAT WITH GROUND TROOPS, HE TOOK
THAT OFF THE TABLE, WE'RE NOT
GOING TO HAVE A MILITARY
EXCURSION.
>> THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED
TO MARY LANDRIEU.
SHE CAN GO HOME AND SAY SHE'S ON
PUTIN'S LIST.
IT'S A GREAT ISSUE TO TALK ABOUT
AT THE DOMESTIC LEVEL RATHER
THAN FOCUSING ON MILITARY
MANEUVERING OVER THERE.
>> A HEARING.
SHE'S CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE
NOW.
>> RIGHT.
>> ARE THEY GOING TO PASS
SANCTIONS, LIBERATE EUROPE.
I THINK THERE ARE REAL ISSUES
HERE AND A LITTLE TOO MUCH
POSTURING GOING ON IN
WASHINGTON.
A LITTLE TOO LITTLE SERIOUSNESS
ABOUT A REAL CRISIS.
>> A LOT OF TALKING, SOME