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Not have anything to do with the kingdom but of them are only here and it does create an opportunity for us because since theyre already here and have all their money here we have a amount of leverage. particularly if they are looking after puttings money because we can now freeze that money, freeze and feed it and that will change the behaviour of vladimir putin. i know ou behaviour of vladimir putin. i know you represent _ behaviour of vladimir putin. i know you represent some _ behaviour of v...

Seeing the consequent as of that — we appreciate we are fitting into a putins strategy, he wants to be an important player on the world stage, hes still angry about the demise of the soviet union. we are now giving him the spotlight he craves. we are also pivoting his country towards china in the long term, thats the calculation hes made. the idea that we now impose sanctions after an invasion will help him persuade his own people that its time to pivot away from the west towards the east. tha...

Invades ukraine nord stream2 will not move forward. martha: why not reopen the keystone pipeline and reopen federal leases on u.s. land? we had energy independence that was large leverage for the united states of russia. now we dont have that anymore. in fact we buy more fuel for much than we have in the past. so why wouldnt she want to revisit those and able to increase our leverage over russia? >> first of all the niceties is a substantial producer of energy. second to take steps to ensure rus...

Either me or george? >> that is the point you see on the left is they dont understand the concept of leverage. look at the squad. they stand their feet like a bunch of kids. we need our way. there are four of you. okay? you dont have the numbers. neil young does not have the numbers because i know you are a music guy, but quite frankly, nobody hundred 55 gives a you know what about neil young. >> i dont know why. >> you know what. but at the end of the day they are going to make this choice and ...

States to have leverage over russia in the event of an incursion into ukraine. so that i think is the primary reason not to impose sanctions at this point in time. >> some nervous days ahead, colonel. but were glad youre with us. thank you very much, sir. >> you bet, john. absolutely. russian figure skater kamila valieva will soon know if her participation at the winter olympics will be cut short. right now she is listed as competing in tuesdays single skating short program despite revelation ...

Enough to buy the world trade center and enough to buy the rights of the bruce springsteen catalog. >> this is the biggest crypto seizure for the justice department. the two are charged with conspire to launder billions of the stolen bitcoin. they laundered the funds through techniques including using fake identities. they cashed out millions through atms and spent it on nfts to walmart gift cards. the stolen funds were worth around $71 million. the value goes up to $4.5 million. and one is call...

Eyed dreams of going to the olympics it was boycotted in 1980. i might have spoken up on the circumstance these are people they have free speech. and they have maximum leverage now because the chinese do not want to be embarrassed by that was not a good scene with the danish reporter. on the other hand we found public shaming does not work so well with china trade the back channels are very effective. of course nancy pelosi might have remembered that. if you think of it she would have gone back ...

Denied vladimir putin some of the leverage he clearly has? >> is a leverage for us, not leverage her vladimir putin. you said turn off. it has not been turned on. there is no gas flowing through right now there wont be for months to parts through because the diplomacy of the united states. and we have been absolutely clear that if russia invades ukraine, one way or the other nord stream two will not move forward. that is leverage for us that we have right now. we intend to loot use that leverage...

That in those cases president biden and our allies would have the ability to leverage that. in other words, they could hold off imposing those in an effort to keep ukraine from being further invaded. so even if we were to do this, there would be ample authority with the administration to use that as leverage in their diplomacy. >> i want to turn to another foreign policy issue. iran. senators got a briefing from senior officials yesterday on irans nuclear program. some of your colleagues, senato...

Putins head, obviously, but it does look like he is building up his forces. i there were 90,000 to 100,000 troops on the border in april 2021, so, - although has been an additional build—up and movement - of forces since then, this has been ongoing for quite a while. - the sources we talk to seem to say he is using this as leverage, - as diplomatic leverage, i to get security guarantees that he wants. can he get those guarantees? is the west going to give him those guarantees? i i dont think t...