Hello. Welcome to countdown. All. Y good morning to you Vladimir Putin addressing russia today amid the collapse of its currency and a deepening economic crisis. The ruble has rallied since hitting its lowest ever after the central bank step in to say it will help Companies Meet their debt obligations and foreign currencies. Theeaders weighing in on ruble issue. The russian crisis is on the agenda. Obama. President barack will not be helping putins case either. He is said to sign a bill pushing further sanctions on the russian economy. What are his options as he heads onto the world stage this morning . Bloombergs Ryan Chilcote reports. Extraordinaryn several days for russians. Since Vladimir Putin last weighed in on the currency, the ruble has been in freefall down at one point a full 30 since he last spoke. Far from hiding, this commercial advertising putins annual has conference suggests the russian president is ready to take the ruble and the world on. Expect a robust defense of sy
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End of the day. And she said i would rather know. But you are sleeping on the couch tonight. [laughter] without further ado, folks, thank you for coming. I want you to know what i am going to focus on. We are in america and the United States and i really want to focus here on what isis its supporters, and sympathizers are doing on american soil. A lot of time today americans are zoned out. The cardashians are on. Someone just texted me. The game is on. I am guilty of that too. The way you get peoples attention in our great country is to make it real and immediate and to let them know it is in their back yard. A lot of times americans say why should i care about what happens in the middle east thousands of miles away. It doesnt affect me. Well i will give you an example how it does affect all of us here in the United States. Just last month recently the fbi director james comey made a statement saying in all 50 u. S. States today we have a network of isis supporters and sympathizers. Th