MARK HALPERIN: The scariest thing I have seen in the last 24 hours: The New York Times says Angela Merkel told the president that Putin is not in touch with reality, that he's in another world. You know, President Reagan never faced a Soviet leader like this. This guy is ruthless. And the best thing I think the best thing president has going

LT. COL. RALPH PETERS: Look, the bottom line on this is Russia has a real leader. You may not like him, and I don't, but he is brilliant and ruthless, he has clear goals and he moves straight toward those goals. The West lacks a leader. Like it or not, the president of the United States is the de facto leader of the West, and our president just is

BILL O'REILLY: Gasoline prices are up 14 cents per gallon in two weeks, and the stock market wobbling, and this is all going to come back to hurt every single American, because turbulence in the world does that these days. I don't think Americans are really locked in that everyone's going to get hurt by this. BRIT HUME: Well turbulence in the wo

HUGH HEWITT, RADIO HOST: Now Peter Baker, when you were on and we were talking about Days Of Fire, I don’t recall that we spent much time on the last crisis of the Bush administration, the Georgian crisis, because of course, the financial crisis consumed all in the immediate aftermath. But a lot of people are trying to draw parallels. What is the

LT. COL. RALPH PETERS: Putin has never backed down from anybody, he's not a bluffer. And he is trained as a KGB agent handler. He sizes up people well. He has Obama's number and Obama's number is zero. This is a president who talks and does nothing. Putin, did he say, 'Oh, I'm going to go in the Crimea, you better look out?' No. He did it, and that

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: So the president is saying that what Putin has managed to do is not strategically clever. Well, let's review. Putin has taken over the Crimean peninsula, which the Russians have held for more than two centuries, lost 20 years ago. He's recovered it. It's strategically extremely important. It's the warm water port, it's the thin

ALEX WAGNER: A lot has been said about the administration's foreign policy in recent weeks and especially in recent days, and a lot of it has been critical of the president. And I am sort of the camp that, you know, I’m not sure if the president could have done anything to prevent Vladimir Putin from doing what he was going to do. But it certainl

LAURA INGRAHAM: Jeff Sessions for president. Really, is there anyone out there who is better than Jeff Sessions on any of these issues? He's great. I think someone like Sessions could probably attract Democrats, Hispanics who are here legally, who are tired of these stupid trade agreements and who have had their own wages undercut by illegal immigr

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL): Well, I think mistakes were made in the Bush administration, as well. I have certainly been a critic of the Obama foreign policy in general. I continue to be. I also think in a moment of international crisis, especially one of importance such as this one, it is critical. We're a free society. We're going to have this de

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: You know that I like to draw lines — (laughter) — especially red ones. But the line I want to draw today is the line between life and death, between right and wrong, between the blessings of a brilliant future and the curses of a dark past. I stood very close to that dividing line two weeks ago. I visited an Israeli army

JOE SCARBOROUGH: The president's snippy retort about the '80s wanting their foreign policy back now makes him look small and ill-prepared for the crisis that's on him. And the consensus among foreign policy analysts, it just is, is that the diplomatic corps believe that neither Vladimir Putin nor any other world leaders on the stage fear Barack Oba

MARY KISSEL, WALL STREET JOURNAL: You’re seen as one of the backers, one of the intellectual godfathers of the tea party. So whether or not Heritage financially backs these candidates is a separate issue. When you look, though, at how tea party candidates are doing -- take Kansas, Milton Wolf, posting graphic x-rays on his Facebook page. He's tra

SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV): Charles and David Koch are shrewd businessmen. Their wealth is nearly unparalleled – not only in America, but in the world. The brothers inherited a small oil company from their father, and built it into a multi-national corporation that refines oil, manufactures fertilizers and chemicals, makes paper products, extracts mi

PRESIDENT OBAMA: But as I indicated yesterday, the course of history is for people to want to be free to make their own decisions about their own futures. And the international community I think is unified in believing that it is not the role of an outside force -- where there’s been no evidence of serious violence, where there’s been no ratio

PROFESSOR STEPHEN F. COHEN: We crossed his red line. We've been crossing red lines ever since we began to move NATO toward Russia in the 1990s. Clinton began it. Bush continued it. Obama rhetorically has continued it. The ultimate red line, and unlike perhaps Obama, Putin really believes in red lines, was Ukraine. What Putin saw happening in Ukrain

Russian President Vladimir Putin discusses the situation in Ukraine.

DONALD RUMSFELD: We have created a leadership vacuum in the world, and it is being filled by the Putins of the world, by people without our values or our interests, and it’s to the detriment of the United States and our friends and allies around the world. It is the United States that’s injected that instability into the world equation.

RCP executive editor Tom Bevan joins Rhod Sharp on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss the American political perspective on the crisis in Ukraine. 

Infamous Toronto mayor Rob Ford joined Jimmy Kimmel on Monday night.

Mara Liasson, George Will, and Charles Krauthammer discuss a case in which a German family was denied asylum on religious grounds the U.S. for wanting to homeschool their children.

BILL O'REILLY: Finally a couple of unintended consequences. Number one, there will be no military budget cuts, President Obama has to know that now. Number two, the Keystone Pipeline must be approved. Why? Because Russia is blackmailing Europe over energy. It supplies a third of oil and natural gas to the EU, the more oil and natural gas the USA a

The House Budget Committee unveiled a preamble to the GOP’s upcoming budget that would blast federal programs aimed at helping the poor. Cynthia Tucker and David Corn discuss.

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