ukraine. >> whether, let's be clear, whether eastern ukraine or crimea that the action by the russians has depp straighted, demonstrated the absence of american leadership. >> dickerson: there is a new leadership. what does the new leadership want to do? >> .. >> well, i think america is going to be more respected in the world the very moment that tooth, donald trump thanks the oath overs as 45th president of the united states and work through these issues, john, i think what we should be encouraged by, whether it be rex tillerson as our secretary of state, nikki haley going to the united nations, general mattis is he is surrounding himself with a group of men and win that will bringing the, bring the broadest raping of information to make these decisions and fake the actions that will put american first. >> dickerson: mr. tillerson says he hasn't had a discussion about russia with donald trump, how can that be? >> i think in the context of these confirmation hearings, the president elect has made a point to talk to each of the various candidates for these positions and the nation of t

the separatists at sometimes toward eastern ukraine in general. so some people i know sort of became much more nationalistic than they had been before. others became just very disillusioned by what they felt had been sort of a lost promise of maidan, that failure of maidan to end corruption. the fact that what had seemed initially a moment a huge hope and optimism had ended and this cute dissection of war and then, of course, they very serious economic problems. the currency collapse a lot of people are suffering at an economic level. >> host: one other recurring calls in ukraine site as a deal with the west sometimes is we share your values. we want to be a normal european country as you were saying that, how does europe, perhaps how does the united states look for ukrainians now? is there still that sense of optimism, this ideal, these ties of all liberalism that we see both in the europe and the u.s. also altered the kinds of aspirations and goals that the ukrainians themselves hold? >> guest: i think that ukrainians have sort of the scrambled

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does donald trump want russia out of eastern ukraine? >> let's be very clear whether it's eastern ukraine or crimea, that the action by the russians has demonstrated the absence of american leadership. >> we have new leadership. what does the new leadership want to do? >> i think america is going to be more respected in the world the very moment that donald trump takes the oath of office as the 45th president of the united states. and he'll work through these issues, john. >> we'll have more of john's conversation with the vice president-elect in two minutes. we'll be right back. it says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. this. here? no. have a little fun together, or a lot. k-y yours and mine. two sensations that work together, so you can play together. i will nevi wnevereverair again. wash my hair again now, i fuel it new pantene doesn't just wash your hair, it fuels it. with the first pro-v nutrient blend, making every... ...strand stronger don't just wash your hair fuel it fuel your hair. because strong is beautiful. >>> today, the

no one knows what that means for the volatility in eastern ukraine. katty: as we have been reporting, donald trump's thetion had impacts around world. in europe it has emboldened far right parties in france and the netherlands. in germany, they are putting a candidate against angela merkel. ginny hill has been looking at the party's support. reporter: europe's right promises a patry audit frame -- a patriotic frame. it can be hard to make a living in germany's north coast. it feels a long way from berlin. in angelae trust merkel. after all, they say she has little time for them. >> they just look after the big cities, but these small communities? no. nothing gets through to us. they have forgotten us. reporter: the news of germany's right-wing party, fd. in 10 voters support a in this region, it is even more popular. the other parties avoid the real problems. angela merkel sticks to her views even though she sees what she has gotten us into, like the terror attacks. the victims of the berlin christmas market would still be alive if she had not brought

there's been a violent stalemate in eastern ukraine for two years. in that time, i've rarely witnessed such a presence from the ukrainian military. by an apartment block which overlooks the front—line and where anna still lives, with her neighbour's children. it's eight degrees below freezing inside. "living here is really scary", she tells us. "i see no solution to this madness." but as they prepare for more casualties at the hospitals, in this battle against a russian—backed enemy, they know presidents putin and trump are talking about reconciliation and no—one knows what that means for the volatility here in eastern ukraine. tom burridge, bbc news, in avdiivka. a team of scientists from manchester university has been given permission to travel to antarctica to collect meteorites, not the familiar kind made of rock, but the far less familiar class of meteorite made of iron. the scientists say that iron meteorites can provide valuable information about the origins of the universe. our science correspondent, rebecca morelle, reports. lighting u

ukraine. this was a very small number of people, proportionally, but as we have seen so many times, in the past century and a half, relatively small group of radical, armed, protesters or militia members or what have you can exert a disproportinally effect on political events, and it has become fairly clear that the far right protesters did play a role in escalating the protests into the violence that we saw as the protests continued, they were involved in violent conflict with the police, possibly initiating them. brings guns to midan. and so on. ... there's relatively little that you can see firsthand and you have littl total access to the internal workings of power which are often hidden and it takes little energy to try to pull out to pull aside the narratives. >> it's very different than the western one but also russia generated this quite intense media coverage about what was going on. tell us about the psychological power of that, and what exactly is the russian perspective on what happ

ukraine and essentially conflict and you write about the western media. you say the western media spoke casually about ethnic russians and ethnic ukrainians and ignoring the fact that cultural linguistic and political identities in ukraine were far too complex to be reduced to a incompatible ethnic groups, meanwhile the western political establishment often portrayed not as people's uprising but as russian ponds, the people started calling it a fight between justice, loving westerners and barbarian tyranters from the east. was it a civil war, invasion, an annexation? it seems as if these terms have real meaning in the way we understand the whole dynamics of the conflict? >> i think the case in ukraine was -- was quite a mixed one and complex one and criticizing as the western media, the interpretations and, of course, there are a number of very knowledgeable and very talented correspondents of various western newspapers. we live in an era where the media often becomes reduced assort of click headlines that leaves little room or no room for nuance or compl

we saw it months later in eastern ukraine where russia armed trained and fought alongside separatists. again, russia denied any role in the conflict it manufactured again flouting an international obligation to respect the territorial integrity of its neighbor. we saw it also in russia's support for bashar al-assad's brutal war in syria. support is maintained even as the assad regime blocked food and medicine from reaching civilians in opposition held areas. civilians who were so desperate that they had resorted to the eating leaves. even as photographs emerged of countless prisoners have been tortured to death in assad's prison, their bodies tagged with serial numbers come even as the assad regime repeatedly used chemical weapons to kill its own people. we saw it in 2015 when russia went further by joining the assaults on the syrian people applying its own troops in a campaign that hit hospitals, schools and the braves. first responders who were trying to dig innocent civilians out of the rubble. and with each transgression not only were more innocent civilians killed, maimed, starve

the next action being coming across the border of eastern ukraine with both military assets and men. that was the next illegal action. i think the absence of a very firm and forceful response to the taking of crimea was judged by the leadership in russia as a weak response and therefore -- >> so what would you have done, after we were surprised by what they did in taking over crimea, what should the u.s. leadership have done in response to that? that we didn't do? >> i would have recommended that the ukraine, all this military assets that it had available, put them on that eastern border, provide those assets with defepsive wadefep defensive weapons, just needed to defend themselves, the u.s. would provide them intelligence that either nato or u.s. will provide air surveillance over that border to monitor any movements. >> so your recommendation would have been to do a more robust supply of military? >> yes, sir. i think what russian leadership would have understood is a powerful response that indicated a, yes, you took to crimea. but this stops right here. >> so as to understand, ou

if they got out of eastern ukraine. and allowed for electses, and level of violence there ceased that would be a big step toward a better future, if they agree to focus on trying too defeat isis, that is a positive sign. they have a huge es-- islamic sesupremacist problem with the chechens, they have a real understanding. there are some grounds for thinking we could find ways to work together. maria: newt gingrich thank you so much. >> good to be with you. maria: president-elect trump continues to be push back on president obama's intelligence officials saying there is no doubt, russia did it. what do we know specifically? we'll talk with a senator who was involved. up next, north carolina senator -- join us on twitter. let us know what you would like to know, sense me a tweet, we're looking ahead right now on "sunday morning futures." hey'? um... who are you? i'm val. the orange money retirement squirrel from voya. i represent the money you save for the future. see? we're putting away acorns to show the importance of b

the largest is in eastern ukraine. ivan watson takes us to an industrial port there and shows us why it is a coveted prize for russian-backed separatists. >> reporter: hot molten metal. workers have been pumping out steel in eastern ukraine. the former soviet factory looms over the port city that employs some 17,000 people. these colossal steel works are a critical part of the economy located less than a half hour in the war against russian-backed separatists. >> reporter: they tell me the ukrainian forces repelled several attempt tos to capture factory. it has been more than two years since russian-backed separatists declared two in ukraine. it has claimed around 10,000 lives. among the dead, dozens of fighters from the ukraine regiment remembered here with the regiment's viking symbolism. now incorporated under the ministry of defense, these ukrainian nationalists started out as an all-volunteer militia with members like steny slav. >> i live in crimea. i teach history to students. he took up arms after russia's anne

putting the anti-tank weapons into eastern ukraine would have given us leverage. that was blocked by president obama. but since that's been raised by our incoming secretary of state, since the argument is being made that we'll come back in with leverage, now would be the time for putin to come to the table. >> bill: recent history, the reset button with president obama. president george bush trying to see into putin's soul and bill clinton the efforts he made, too. and i see all of these efforts going nowhere. then i've got john mccain last night with martha saying the following about vladimir putin and he did not hold back. just watch here. >> i am worried about this president's view of russia. listen, it's vladimir putin who sent planes with precision weapons killing -- hitting hospitals in aleppo. this guy is a war criminal, okay? he is a butcher and a thug. >> bill: how are we supposed to understand all this? >> this is one of the reasons that be able to bring up the issue of war crimes and have that connection, have that case, push that argument. these are ca

again, if they stop doing certain destabilization action in eastern ukraine, he may say they deserve some response from that. he could give some kind of a statement or a pledge that the united states could not try to bring out some kind of regime change in russia which they are worried about. charlie: why is he worried about that if he has such huge popularity with his people? richard: he saw what happened in ukraine. the economy is contracting in russia. he thinks one of our goals is to see the so-called color revolutions you saw throughout eastern europe. most tyrants don't take for granted their ability to rule. there is no orderly successor. one of the things that makes these countries the kind of systems there are is that there is no mechanism for legitimate political change, so it is all or nothing. charlie: do you think there can be a negotiation with putin? richard: i think there can be negotiation about certain issues, conventional forces in europe, nuclear weapons, possibly ukraine, the middle east, afghanistan. --charlie: the interest you look after in foreign policy pictu

border of ukraine, it was pretty well known that there were elements in eastern ukraine that already were sympathetic to russia interests. >> so that might be a case then when crimea entered into eastern ukraine, this is a sign of weakness because we didn't respond in a way that would deter further actions? >> working with allies in the region and obviously working with the government in kiev, both. >> what you did do in those cases was to put together with the europeans a way of sanctioning them economically but that was not sufficient in your mind to stop them from their aggressions? >> well, i think you're onto a really important point around sanctions, and obviously there's been a lot of questions about sanctions and so i think it's good to try to clarify my view on those. as i've said, sanctions are a powerful, important tool, and they can be used in two circumstances. one is to punish someone, or country for what they've already done. the other is to intervene and cause them not to do certain things, and in this case, clearly the sanctions that were put in place in response to

richard: again, if they stop doing certain destabilization action in eastern ukraine, he may say they deserve some response from that. he could give some kind of a statement or a pledge that the united states could not try to bring out some kind of regime change in russia which they are in worried about. in charlie: why is he worried about that if he has such huge popularity with his people? richard: he saw what happened in ukraine. he saw the president get chased out of the palace by a mob. the economy is contracting in russia. he thinks one of our goals is to see the so-called color revolutions you saw throughout eastern europe. most tyrants don't take for granted their ability to rule. there is no orderly successor. one of the things that makes these countries the kind of systems there are is that there is no mechanism for legitimate political change, so it is all or nothing. charlie: do you think there can be a negotiation with putin? richard: i think there can be negotiation about certain issues, conventional forces in europe, nuclear weapons, possibly ukraine, the middle east, a

now is the time to stand up to russian aggression in crimea, in eastern ukraine, and syria. just yesterday we heard reports of another outbreak of fighting between ukrainian forces and russian-backed separatists in war-torn eastern ukraine. all you have to do, mr. president, is speak to a ukrainian and let them tell you, as i met with the former prime minister yesterday, and i will be meeting with a former member of their parliament -- let them tell you of what it's like to have the russian army march on your country and take part of it away as they did with crimea and then come in under the disguise of little green men as if they did not have ties to the russian army, and that's going on in eastern ukraine right now. and our own intelligence community has told us that the russian president personally ordered a campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election right here in the u.s. that campaign -- that campaign, a mix of covert russian operations, cyber attacks and cyber operations and prop tpwapbda was only -- propaganda was only the latest in a series of efforts to un

he's still doing that, occupying part of eastern ukraine. he's made a military incursion into syria at the direct expense of the u.s. national interest in the middle east. sanctions have relatively had no impact on putin, nor will these sanctions either. >> okay. what about the u.n. resolution, not vetoing that u.n. resolution. you combine that with the sanctions and that action on the u.n., can you recall a transition, a presidential transition where an outgoing administration was taking such an active policy role that in a way complicates -- that certainly complicates things for the next administration? >> well, it certainly does. and i think it's disappointing i think to watch this behavior of an american president. this is his smallness involved in this. american presidents should have a global view and stature and get beyond personality. this is about his personality differences with netanyahu and indicate that -- to let that run into a major policy decision here where we're punishing the only democracy in the middle east, our number on

of crimea,xation eastern ukraine, georgia, just to mention a few. mr. tillerson: yes. >>'s russia's targeted bombing campaign aleppo and hospitals violate the international order? mr. tillerson: yes. it is not acceptable behavior. >> do you believe these actions constitute war crimes? mr. tillerson: i do not have sufficient information to make that type of a serious conclusion. coming to that conclusion will require me to have additional -- >> do you understand knowing a standard and knowing all that is in the realm of public information, you cannot say those actions are a were crime or not? i would want: confirmation from agencies who would be able to present me with indisputable facts. >> i am not taking your time. it will be added back. have sufficient evidence looking at classified information that had taken place, would that not be a war crime? mr. tillerson: yes. >> thank you. >> does the president-elect agree with you? we have not had the opportunity to discuss this specific issue or this specific area. >> in the statement on page three, you say, in his campaign

the next action being coming across the border of eastern ukraine with both military assets and men. that was the next illegal action. i think the absence of a very firm and forceful response to the taking of crimea was judged by the leadership in russia as a weak response and therefore -- >> so what would you have done, after we were surprised by what they did in taking over cry mim what should the u.s. leadership have done in response to that, that we didn't do? >> i would have recommended that the ukraine, all of its military assets that it had available, put them on that eastern border, provide those assets with defensive weapons that are necessary just to defend themselves, announce that the u.s. is going to provide them intelligence and that either nato or u.s. will provide air surveillance over that border to monitor any movements. >> so your recommendation would have been to do a more robust supply of military? >> yes, sir. i think what russian leadership would have understood is a powerful response that indicated that yes, you took the crimea, but this stops right here. >> s

after russia began backing rebels in eastern ukraine, some fear that president-elect donald trump may change the plan because of his praise for president, vladimir putin. >>> it's four days until an orlando police officer was shot and killed and the man suspected of pulling the trigger has not been found. authorities are rounding up people suspected of helping marques lloyd of evading capture. he is also wanted for the shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend. three people are facing accessory charges for helping lloyd stay on the run. his niece, a former girlfriend and a former co-worker. >>> now the small rural town of alcoholster, was overrun when a creek overran its banks, the farmland was filled with water and the only way to evacuate people was by boat and homes and cars were inundated with flood water. >> a police officer satisfied the day for a hospital patient that needed emergency surgery in philadelphia. sergeant keply saw an suv slide off a road on saturday. and it was filled with doctors transporting a liver from york hospital to a patient in dire need of a transplant to

pull your forces back in eastern ukraine. i want you to say to the people of crimea that you will have an internationally sponsored referendum on whether or not you belong to russia or to the ukraine. if you do that, you we can cooperate against isis in syria, and if you do that, i will advocate the removal of these sanctions. i think that one phone call could get those four things started in a very concrete, definitive way, and the world would be stunned by the progress made. >> if you are president trump, two, i don't think he has demonstrated that he cares what the criticism is from people. so i think part of what it president obama did with the sanctionable sanctions was to box president trump and politically on russia to set him up for the conversations that are going to be happening when he has that call with putin. but i think for a lot of people like myself, i'm sort of in a watch and see mode to see what president trump does with putin and what that relationship is going to look like. meghan mtion the fact that georg

the sanction relate to the annexation of crimea and the invasion of eastern ukraine. a nuclear arms agreement, let's step back a minute, russia has been in violation of the i.m.f. treaty many years. steps have not been taken to address those violations. we have seen announcements of russian tactical weapons near n.a.t.o. borders, now near u.s. troops. we do need to address this but we're mixing apples and oranges here. again, nuclear stability, i agree, is very important, but right now, and i thought president-elect trump mentioned he wants to strengthen america's nuclear arsenal, perhaps i misunderstood, so are we reducing? are we increasing? but we have to watch very carefully russia's military modernization. they are actually increasing their strategic nuclear deterrent. they may be at a point where they're accelerating the program. we have to be extremely mindful. this is protecting u.s. national security, and russia as general mattis noted really is a near-term threat, could be an existential threat, so let's keep our eye on the prize and not start conflating to

eastern ukraine is a deprived region. you can see bitter divisions. the conflict has become one of attrition which world powers have been unable or unwilling to end. now to evidence of a startling rise in gun violence the us, including in barack obama's hometown of chicago. killings in the city have reached a 20—year high. a deadly summer of violence brought this year's death toll to 500. most of the victims and their killers were young men. we spent a week in chicago and found a world where guns rule. in my neighbourhood, they start young. that is the edge, and they are dying from guns. very young. we have to teach children how to defend themselves. it is like, what do you do? you would rather be caught with protection than without it. | have never seen so many gui'is. like, we have so many guns. but i have never seen as many as now. bo deal is a rapper from the west side, now, the most violent part of chicago. he is a member of the vice lords gang. he has been imprisoned. and even he is shocked by what has happened. it is like somebody dropped off

there's no sign to the end of fighting here in eastern ukraine. the fear is, with donald trump in the whitehouse, the prospects for peace are even further away than ever. does the donald give a damn? i don't like what's happening with ukraine. that's really a problem that affects europe a lot more than us. they should be leading some of this charge. you wouldn't allow ukraine either? you wouldn't allow ukraine into nato? i would not care that much to be honest with you, whether it goes in or doesn't go in. i wouldn't care. russia denies they're the aggressor in ukraine. in 2014, i caught up with president putin in siberia and challenged him. do you regret the killings in the ukraine? translation: the main problem is that the authorities in kiev do not want a political dialogue with the east of their country. in moscow today the line remains, russia has done nothing wrong. there is no russian aggression. no agenda for a greater russia? no agenda for greater russia. we want to have strong and self—sufficient country. but there are no plans for any

angela: it is possible that the russians could say we will stop supporting separatists in eastern ukraine, we will make the -- we will may be withdraw heavy weapons. maybe in syria we will be willing to work with the united states. it is hard to see what it is that the u.s. gets in return. laura: could there be a new agreement between the countries on private security? ?- on cyber security ac we hear about russia trying to hack the election. could that be a benefit? angela: that would be a very wise way to start. the united states and russia have such an agreement. it has some flaws. we had begun to negotiate an agreement or talk to the russians about this before ukraine. that could be resumed. obviously, the devil will be in the details. if you want a cyber agreement that actually works. laura: do you think vladimir putin can believe he is being talked about as such a figure of influence in the united states? angela: i'm not sure in his wildest dreams that into 2016 he would be the figure of so much speculation, praise from many in the trump camp, and russia will have increased its influ

ukraine. the problem is that we are not the country who is going to, who should implement minsk agreement. we are the country that should guarantee the implementation, together with the french and with the germans. minsk agreement should be implemented by kiev and the guys from donbass. and minsk agreement is not something vague. the guys from donbass just take your instructions, so why don't you go along and instruct them on what you want? we enjoy some influence, but we cannot ask them to die. there's been a lot of talk about the possibility of a very early summit meeting between mr putin and soon—to—be president trump. is it going to happen? well, we hope that president putin is going to call president trump after the inauguration, as soon as he's available, and congratulate him. it's a protocol so this congratulation should be delivered. we hope it will be delivered through a telephone call. then we'll expect their exchange of views on a possibility of the meeting. what kind of time fr

again, if they did stop doing certain destablization aks in eastern ukraine, he might say therefore they deserve some response to that. he could, but there are other things he could do. cogive some statement or pledge that the united states would not try to bring about regime change in russia, something that putin is clearly worried about, but we should only offer them things. >> why is putin worried about that when he has such a huge popularity. >> he saw what happened in ukraine. he saw the president get chased out of the palace by a mob. the economy is contracting in russia. >> he thinks we were behind the mob. >> he thinks that one of our goals is to see the so called revolutions like you have seen throughout parts of yeern europe. he is wore eds. most tyrants don't take for granted their ability to rule. and there is no ordinarily-- one of the things that make these countries the kinds of systems there are, there is no mechanism for legitimate political clang stvment all or nothing, and i think putin is worried. >> rose: do you think there can be a negotiation with putin? >> i do. i

ukraine so-yeon wh ukraine so, i don't know the president's exact views on that, but making it clear that we will not stand by while a sovereign country gets envied the way u russia invaded crimea o. i don't think the president is particularly as bested in suiting me, i think it is important for the president of the free world to stand up to the values and principals that are worimportant and since worl war ii we have been safer, freer and have not had this sort of invasion and war that had plagued europe for so many years before that so we don't want to walk away from that stability that the u.s. helped create lightly. >> congressman, i appreciate your self-depracating way but you are the house chairman -- but your opinions pertinent. let me ask, we're about to see president trump at the pentagon a short time from now and it's interesting he doubled down last night in the interview with fox and heard from people that he heard that torture works, you have said, that torture should not be off the table but senator john mccain of course we know his past he said this week in no uncertai

the sanctions are connected to the minsk agreement because of the hybrid warfare of russia in the eastern ukraine and if we are talking in terms of deals, this is the deal, minsk agreement fulfilled, then sanction reduction. ok, so that is clearly an area where you don't see eye to eye with president trump. in terms of russia, we have heard, of course, very, very serious warnings from the german intelligence agencies that there is some kind of role that is coming from russia, in terms of online attacks and misinformation. and you are all very concerned about that, because you have got your national elections in september this year. and the us vice president in the obama administration, joe biden, said he had no doubt that russia interfered with the us elections, through its online attacks and hacking. what are you doing to try to stop this? what action can you take? it is a real concern. bots, trolls, fake news, we have it all. and therefore i created a cyber command, which is merging the intelligence officers with the it officers. cyber command means visibility, strength, and we are cons

ukraine. the problem is that we are not the country who is going to, who should implement minsk agreement. we are the country that should guarantee the country that should guarantee the implementation, together with the implementation, together with the french and with the germans. minsk agreement should be implemented by kiev and implemented by kiev. minsk agreement should be implemented by kiev. mincing agreement is not something —— minsk agreement is not something —— minsk agreement is not vague. we enjoy some influence, but we cannot ask them to die. there's been a lot of talk about the possibility of a very early summit meeting between mr putin and soon to be president trump. is it going to happen? well, we hope that president putin is going to call president trump after the inauguration, as soon as he's available and congratulate him. it's available and congratulate him. it's a protocol. so this congratulation should be delivered. we hope it will be delivered through a telephone

takeover of crony and eastern ukraine. the investments we have made in shoring up allies in eastern the military exercises, investments we have made in the ukrainian military so it can defend itself. what about a show of force, which seems to be the message putin says? avoiding world war three was also advisable. is that the only option? what do you mean about show of force ? option? what do you mean about show of force? these terms are thrown around. as one makesjudgements about what to do, one has to take into account the school tory risk. we have imposed significant diplomatic and economic costs on a regime that has flouted the rules of the road. so this is a complex relationship, but what was important about the message we have sent as an administration as we hand off is that you cannot see anyone of russia's actions in isolation, you have to take it as a pattern, and they are not benefiting from the order and they want to bring it down and we need to contest that. 0utgoing ambassador power. donald trump's calls to kee