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Republicans. its imperative for the white house to pass a lot of the other stalled agenda items that could help americans who are hurting right now. >> you are about to see politics play out over the break. kevin mccarthy, the republican leader of the house, taking a codell to the ukraine border and another to the areas around ukraine. there will be a lot of pol politicking about this. republicans are already lining up to say we have to be tough on russia and its bidens fault the economy is in b...

You can. but thats not changing putins behavior. he is leveling our country with these strikes. is the biden white house prepared to support any escalation of nato military tactics, a no-fly zone, humanitarian corridor, nick? >> it appears not, putting troops in the way or engaging directly with russian forces if theres a no-fly zone. it would lead to very much the same kind of situation. one thing the biden administration is clear-eyed about, the sanctions are not going to and they do not expec...

Sanctions announced today as were seeing these horrific images and stories coming out of ukraine in places like mariupol and bucha. let me take you through the headlines of this announcement, full blocking sanctions imposed on russias largest financial institution as well as its largest private bank. theres also a ban on all new investments in russia that would come in the form of an executive order the president would sign. now additional individuals are now being punished as well and they incl...

Are tony soprano, your family is a potential liability. its something your adversaries can target and try to manipulate against you and so i think thats part of, like, a closing of the walls around putin if he begins to see that from the west, more of a psychological impact. >> on the military front the russians have now completely withdrawn from the kyiv area, from the chernihiv area, have gone back into belarus, back across the border into russia in some cases but theres still a debate about w...

The justice department today announcing the first criminal charges against the russian oligarch since putins invasion of ukraine began. the oligarch charged with evading sanctions in place in an alleged scheme to promote and support pro-russia separatists in crimea. the attorney general merrick garland had strong words for others who may try to violate those sanctions. >> it does not matter how far you sail your yacht, it does not matter how well you conceal your assets, it does not matter how c...

We know the russians have been targeting fuel depots. making sure theres enough helmets, body armor for the ukrainian soldiers. they are looking at how you fight the coming war with russia because putin lost around kyiv because he was overextended. his forces were picked off by the ukrainians using those javelin missiles. natos next assessment is it may not be as easy as putin regroups his forces and uses them in a less overextended way that will be tough for the ukrainians. to fight that they w...

Today escalating sanctions on russia. the united states now banning all new investments in russia tightening the squeeze on russias largest financial institution and promising to freeze or seize assets of russian government officials and their family members including vladimir putins two adult daughters. with me to share their reporting and insights, jeremy diamond. so new sanctions including putins daughters, which makes it personal, some people always question why do you keep -- how can you ke...

And so i hope there are things going on behind the scenes probably technical things to make sure that information gets through. i wouldnt rule out the possibility of young, tech-saatchi russians who want to get at the truth, who perhaps dont want to make a big deal out of it but are trying to find ways around the firewalls erected around the internet. >> one of the things other countries are trying to do is put nick pressure on putin, stir up dissent. today sanctions on two of putins adult daugh...

Oligarchs. the senl ior official saying if putin were to change course some of the sanctions could be reversed but not all of them are permanent. when we see from our very own colleagues on the ground reporting on some of the things going on in ukraine, you have to acknowledge the idea of putin drastically changing course, on many days that seems like a faraway possibility. >> mj lee at the white house, thank you very much. today the white house secretary of state antony blinken in brussels fo...

About, but i think the critical thing would be obviously that couldnt be just a russian guarantee. it would have to be other credible ukrainian partners. >> also on the diplomatic front today after just winning re-election the hungarian prime minister, mr. orban, a friend of putin, though hes a nato member, hes more friendly with putin, he says he spoke to putin and has invited putin, zelenskyy, the chancellor of france to come to budapest. do you see that as any possibility? and should putin be...