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Congress overwhelmingly passed on a bipartisan basis last year new sanctions against russia, and the trump administration moved last month to delay the implementation of those sanctions which is something that has gone somewhat overlooked as a lot of the scrutiny has instead been on the particulars of the special counsels investigation into whether or not there was collusion between the trump campaign and mosz cow and whether or not the president obstructed justice. that, of course, is significa...

Started again so yeah its not enough given the current situation so do you believe the united nations is doing enough about the situation i mean were calling for the implementation of the u.n. security council resolution decision. there is of course there is gar interests that sit on the security council that have influence on the warring parties so at the moment definitely we are very much frustrated with the efforts by the u.n. and with the lack of implementation of a decision as was taken on ...

Get ahold of him? >> i dont think its a downgrade, i think were talking specifically about implementation and what this might look like, what specific pieces of legislation might look like and we havent seen those yet so it would be premature to weigh in. the president is still supportive of the concept. >> you just returned from the region. from the perspective of the administration, have the north koreans been successful at all in driving a wedge between the south koreans and the united states...

I think the message that the united states wanted to deliver is one of maximum pressure. we continue to do that. i think you certainly saw that in all of the remarks, both publicly and those that were private between the u.s. officials and president moon and his administration and also through the actions of the treasury department with the largest sanctions ever that youve seen on friday. blake? >> thank you. i want to get back to the 21 age limit for gun ownership. the president was pretty for...

And why the pressure campaign is critical. the administration announced another round of sanctions this time focused on the shipping industry, individual ships, shipping companies, not just north korean but chinese, singapore that are violators of the u.n. sanctions. the next step we need to move to quickly is much more aggressive maritime interdictions of the ships violating the sanctions. the implementation of that will be complicated. we have to rely on the japanese, on the chinese and other ...

>> i dont think so. i think that the message that the united states wanted to deliver was the one of maximum pressure and we continue to do that. i think you saw that in all of the remarks both publicly and those that were private between the u.s. officials and president moon and his administration and also through the actions of the treasury department with the largest sanctions ever that you saw on friday. blake. >> thank you. i want to get back to the 21 age limit for gun ownership. the presi...

Buildings. in the damascus server we are about 400,000 people live. opposition rebels fired mortars on the capital. and could very well escalate further. as there are new signs that the forces are preparing to move into the eastern area in the coming days. this follows a similar strategy that the asad regime has had in the past. where bombings are followed by a ground invasion. the lease from russia, germany and france spoke today via the phone to talk about implementation of the cease-fire. as ...

Going on, but they cannot interfere. >> the treasury secretary of steve mnuchin came out and talked to reporters this week. he said there are going to be new sanctions on north korea. sanctions on russia were coming, he said. what are the problems with delaying the implementation of these sanctions that were passed by congress? >> the first thing i want to say, david, to the point about these back and forth and this name calling between the president and representative schiff, i mean, think abou...

Between ambassador haley of the u.s., and the russian ambassador, and wanting immediate language to put into the cease-fire unfettered humanitarian access to get the medical care and food to the besieged areas, and the russians are continuing to water it down and delay the implementation, and so, you know, not only ambassador haley, but the security council is really sending the message to russia that the security council cannot have another resolution that talks about a cease-fire. and given th...

Democracy. and so those sanctions are long past due for implementation. >> h dodged a question yesterday about whathis administration has done, vis-a-vis north korea constitutes a blockade. is that how you would look at these as the sanctions against north korea have been ratcheted up? >> i am very much interested in some sophisticated diplomacy with north korea. i think that this bullying that has been going back and forth between the president and with kim jong-un is school boy tactics. i thin...