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Administration to work with europeans to try to fortify the rest of ukrainian democracy against russian aggression and impose sanctions in response. what is different this time, is that there has been this ramp up. this deployment of 150,000 troops circling ukraine. threatening an invasion, a military operation, that is far more significant and substantial than anything that was traced in 2014. now when i think the biden team has done very well with that time, is number one, warn people about wh...

In reducing the global supply of energy. the immediate effect would be to raise prices at the pump for americans. and also to pad russian profits with rising prices. so weve been carving out payments for energy trade and transport from the sanctions that weve been inlaying but we have a strong interest in degrading russias status as a leading energy supplier over time. this is a profound shift. that is why nord stream 2 was shut down. that is why were surging lng to europe right now. to help acc...

At the same time, were holding russia accountable, including russias economy. back on december 1st, i said that russia would face massive consequences for attacking ukraine including severe and lasting economic costs. the united states and more than 30 allies and partners representing more than half the worlds economy have made good on that commitment with powerful sanctions and export controls on russia including additional actions just today. weve now sanctioned most of russias largest financi...

Indefinitely and as you have just seen, president biden today authorized sanctions on nord stream 2 ag and its corporate office holders. we have now taken complimentary action using our own authorities to ensure that nord stream 2 is off the table just as we said it would be. we are blocking from the global financial system two large banks that are connected to the kremlin and russian military and russian sovereign wealth can no longer trade on u.s. or european financial markets. as you know, we...

Think the job for american policy is to try to squeeze them, to force them to take a stand on this and use their leverage with russia to get putin to back off this dangerous course he is on. >> we are certainly seeing these sanctions squeeze putin. news that the ruble is down 30%. weve also applied these export controls which stops countries from sending things in my computer chips. china is supplying 70%. my question is can russias solely depend, can they survive long enough with just the suppo...

Export controls for components is necessary. nordstream 2 should be killed with no chance of revival. what do you make of today? >> what a day it was today, shannon. you heard the report from the stock market. i feel queasy from watching the market go way down and come back. i dont think ive seen days quite like this before. so, i think the markets are jittery. and you asked about these responses by biden. i think some of the sanctions are justified. what i was disappointed in, shannon, is i wou...

Should be under way right now, if indeed they are on schedule. president biden last night condemning this invasion by russia as an unprovoked and unjustified attack by russian military forces, and today you can expect president biden will unveil the full range of severe sanctions that the u.s. has been preparing in the event of a large scale russian invasion of ukraine. that is expected to include, if indeed what they have previewed is to come to light today, it could include sanctions against r...

For country the size of russia who economy the size of russia. it was unprecedented what the president put in place. there are restrictions on some of russias largest banks. restrictions on debt for a nrm of different sectors. the president put new restrictions on russian businessmen who are close to the kremlin. and of course their adult children to try to avoid an escape hatch for the sanctions. and sort of the center piece of these sanctions were the export controls. which limit export of cer...

And the sanctions never meant to deter. >> carley: rich edson, good morning. >> good morning, todd and carley, president biden addressed the nation with come as you mentioned, todd a frank admission that they never expected sanctions to stop putin and adding new winds will take time to have an impact. >> know when expect at sanctions to prevent anything from happening. this could take time. we have to show resolve, so we knows whats coming. so the people of russia know what he brought on. that i...

Security adviser and msnbc political contributor. ben, since were focused now on analysis of the sanctions i want to start with you. what do you make of what the president just laid out? >> reporter: well, its a significant step forward in building the types of sanctions theyve been foreshadowing. it doesnt encampus all theyve foreshadowed like export controls but what i take from this announcement is, first of all, theyve decided the die has been cast and it constitutes an invasion. yesterday w...