Mitt Romney once again said on Sunday he’s not running for president in 2016, explaining that he’s excited about the Republican field of potential nominees. 
 
 
 
 “I’m thinking about the people who I want to see running for president,” he said on CBS’s “Face The Nation” when asked whether he’ll run by host Bob Schieffer. “I fully anticipate that I’ll be supporting one of them very vigorously.” 
 
 
 
 The 2012 GOP presidential nominee also blasted President Barack Obama’s handling of foreign policy issues. 
 
 
 
 “Our esteem around the world has fallen,” Romney said. “It’s hard to think of a single country that has greater respect and admiration for the United States than it did five years ago.” 
 
 Read more about: Mitt Romney, 2012 Elections, 2016 Elections ||||| Searchers for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet “wasted a week” by failing to focus their efforts on the Indian Ocean earlier, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul says. 
 
 The Texas Republican complained on “Fox News Sunday” that Malaysian officials “spent way too much time” looking in the Gulf of Thailand and in the mountains of Kazakhstan, when they should have been searching in the Indian Ocean. 
 
 “We wasted a week of precious time at the mountain region when all along it’s been in the southern Indian Ocean, is where the location is,” McCaul said. 
 
 His comments came after French authorities provided new satellite images that officials said show debris that could have come from the airplane in the ocean west of Australia. 
 
 “The good news is we’ve confined it to the area where the debris is so we can get to the black box to finally find out what may have happened in this case,” he said. 
 
 McCaul said he believes it’s “less likely” that the plane landed on a runway on a remote island. “However, we haven’t ruled out terrorism,” he said, adding that there is no direct evidence of such a link. 
 
 Read more about: Malaysia, Mike McCaul, Flight 370 ||||| Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia says the chances of his country going to war with Russia are “growing,” amid a buildup of Russian troops at the border. 
 
 
 
 “The Ukrainian government is trying to use all the peaceful means, diplomatic means to stop the Russians,” Deshchytsia said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” 
 
 
 
 “But, he said, “people are also ready to defend their homeland.” 
 
 
 
 Read more about: Russia, Ukraine, Crimea ||||| Former President Jimmy Carter says he corresponds with foreign leaders the old-fashioned way – through snail mail – because he suspects his communications are watched by intelligence agencies. 
 
 “I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored,” Carter said in an interview with Andrea Mitchell that was aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” 
 
 “And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write the letter myself, put it in the Post Office and mail it, because I believe if I send an email, it will be monitored,” Carter said. 
 
 (Also on POLITICO: Rogers: Snowden helping Russia on Ukraine) 
 
 He said the National Security Agency’s electronic surveillance and the United States’ use of drones “has been extremely liberalized, and I think abused, by our own intelligence agencies.” 
 
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– Malaysian officials "spent way too much time" looking for Flight 370 in the wrong places, charged House Homeland Security chair Michael McCaul this morning on Fox News Sunday. "We wasted a week of precious time at the mountain region when all along it’s been in the southern Indian Ocean, is where the location is," he said, amid news that French satellite images might show debris from the crash. "The good news is we’ve confined it to the area where the debris is so we can get to the black box to finally find out what may have happened in this case." Politico notes that he refused to rule out terrorism. Elsewhere on your Sunday dial: Mike Rogers on Vladimir Putin: "He goes to bed at night thinking of Peter the Great and he wakes up thinking of Stalin. We need to understand who he is and what he wants. It may not fit with what we believe of the 21st century." He wants military aid for areas Putin could target, "and you do that in conjunction with sanctions, now you've got something that says, ‘Mr. Putin, we're done with you expanding into other countries." Jimmy Carter on Big Brother: "I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored. And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write the letter myself, put it in the Post Office and mail it, because I believe if I send an email, it will be monitored." Michael Chertoff on the Malaysian jet: "Increasingly, we face the question of what we call ‘inside threats. It could be pilots. It could be members of the crew. So I think the issue of screening and understanding when people are going off the rails inside the enterprise is going to become more of an issue. Mitt Romney on a 2016 run: Not going to happen. "I’m thinking about the people who I want to see running for president. I fully anticipate that I’ll be supporting one of them very vigorously." Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Deshchytsia: "The Ukrainian government is trying to use all the peaceful means, diplomatic means to stop the Russians." But, "people are also ready to defend their homeland."