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Leverage they have over the situation. the one thing were saying was a good thing. germany not going forward with the nord stream 2 pipeline. they are not yet as your previous guest pointed out pumping gas. you take away something they dont have. this administration and the left is obsessed with the idea of sanctions. that sanctions are the only way to deal with this. so far vladimir putin has brushed aside sanctions. they have not -- what tool does the biden administration have in their tool bo...

Threat. where history will be a pretext for border revision. and this is a receipt for disaster. >> one of the great unanswered questions in all of this is is why is vladimir putin bringing this to a head now? whats triggering him into making such moves at this particular point. for no apparent obvious reason. >> i see two reasons. one is that putin was not able to achieve his goal in ukraine by crippling ukraine. and using conflicts in the east. as a leverage to federalize ukraine and make it w...

Steps that essentially remove nord stream 2 from the equation, that is a byproduct. that is a result of the work that we have done together with the german government over the course of these last several months, over the course of the last years. >> reporter: correct me if i am wrong, but your argument is that if you had to pose the sanctions earlier, the germans would not have suspended, or -- of the germans would not have done what they did yesterday or it wouldve been a much bigger lift to g...

Quickly how this is going to end. does putin want an off ramp or is he absolutely crazy and want to be the czar of russia and impose a military solution on ukraine? >> jesse: so, zelenskyy has to decide, he could either go down fighting or he could broker some sort of settlement. do you think that zelenskyy team trusts putin? if he leaves the country and goes to a summit outside of ukraine, is there a chance he might not come back and what kind of leverage does he have once he leaves the capital...

Interfere would lead to consequences you have never seen. and that is a quote leading many people to think he was talking about nuclear weapons. he made a move with regard to that on sunday. can you explain the significance of the move he made and how concerned we should be? >> well, we should be concerned because vladimir putin -- you know, he was always very aggressive but he has seemed shakeier in the last few weeks as weve analyzed the speeches that he has given. we should take it seriously....

Global energy supplies. this will affect gas prices. >> jim, does the president have enough tools at his disposal to offset that type of pain? this seems to be where the rubber is going to hit the road for people who may not have been paying attention until this moment? >> the short answer, and christine knows this better than me, is no. this is a global energy market, right? its going to respond both to sentiment, right? theyre going to be made nervous by the prospect of war in europe but also ...

Soldier depending on what perspective youre looking at it from, kate. so the worry is that you are going to see potentially imminently a build-up of russian forces in that donbas area and that that could then prove to be a sort of launching pad for further operations. on the flip side, many are also saying that potentially this could also be a moment for president putin to pause and try to use the leverage he now has as a result of making these aggressive moves, violating international law, esse...

We hope they will finally decide to do so. so, once again, we have urged them. we have asked them, like, for years to do this, to use, to exercise their leverage on putin, because they actually had enormous leverage on putin. corrupt regime needs at least two countries to operate. the one country where the rule of law is non—existent. in our case, russia. which allows them to steal enormous money. but also they need a second country, because they want to pass the assets they stole to their chi...

Contingency going forward. matt. >> thanks. i have a question about the houthi sanctions, but its largely semantic so ill leave it until later. on nord stream 2, you guys have been saying for months, for over a year since the waivers for first granted, that in fact, this gave you additional leverage, withholding the sanctions, and would serve as a deterrent. clearly, it didnt, it didnt provide you with any leverage at all that we can tell because of what you just said about the invasion beginnin...

And a little disappointed because they know the troops wont becoming and feel like its a day late and a dollar short. joy? >> appreciate both of you. thank you both very much. joining me is deputy national security advisor for international economics. let me go ahead and ask you that question matt bradley brought up. the sense among people inside of ukraine that these sanctions are good. walk us through why now. >> ukrainian leverage to be shared with european allies and allies across the world....