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Chambers on largely partisan lines about sanctions, i think will be quickly dealt with. that will seal the debate in short order. >> yilts its still one of the major pieces of leverage the biden administration has. what is the risk by not sanctions russia before a possible invasion? >> i dont know if theres so much of a risk there. i think closer we get to this. we see that leverage isnt what perhaps we thought was. it does not seem to deter vladimir putin at all even though joe biden has been v...

Dont have a commitment from the department of state that theyre not planning to recognize the taliban. which, you know, committed an armed coup against the legitimately elected government of afghanistan. >> and many thousands more afghans work for the u.s. military and government there who are under threat as well. i want to ask you this, though, do you believe that the u.s. should send forces back in to the country to help manage the evacuation here, given that as you mention, they basically ou...

Correspondent christine romans joins us now with more. theyre warning this would be disastrous. there is a lot of real concern here. >> yeah, this is not something to trifle with, not something to use as leverage, but it is and it has been many, many times, and it is a dangerous game to be playing. thats what the former treasury secretaries say, both republicans and democrats, here on this list. and they say even a short-lived default could threaten economic growth, it could roil markets around ...

Money and recognize them as an awesome government, that leverage is, you know, you need to work with us to protect the people that we made a promise to or there will be a cost to you. trust me, the taliban know that they have never defeated the united states on the battlefield. they can only hope to outlast our will. so there is a lot we can do, including, by the way, there is still disparate afghan forces outside of afghanistan that we can be supplying and also the northern resistance force tha...

That might involve finances. thats pretty standard. for anybody related to it, that doesnt surprise me at all, but there is still the oddity of going back so far with manafort, who appears to have his own problems well before he came into the campaign and some of the e-mails we saw recently via "the new york times" and "washington post" where campaign people were questioning certain concerns with manafort, and manafort was blowing them off saying dont respond to that and just kind of walling him...

Manafort was blowing them off saying dont respond to that and just kind of walling himself off. he seems to be getting more walled off now. >> you think this is beyond the scope? a lot of people say the marching orders for mueller were actually pretty broad? >> the only way you count this is within the bounds of the jurisdiction. now im talking about the old stuff with manafort. >> 2006. >> if hes trying to get leverage. leverage isnt an appropriate part of an investigation. youre supposed to tr...

Offer propaganda to allies like the claim that the ethnic russians are in danger. now, rule number two. follow the money. after russia, the ukrainian republic was the soviet unions most important economic component. it produced quadruple the output of the next republic on that list. today it remains the second largest exporter of grain in the world. putins greatest leverage isnt his weapons, its energy. russia is the worlds largest oil exporter and second in natural gas. a lot of countries rely ...