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Were now getting from the administration is that the sanctions that the president is set to announce shortly will not else inially be the full package that they had been talk about threatening building towards for months. the way the administration official is characterizing this is you dont want to understand necessarily unload the kitchen sink when theres a possibilities vladimir putin could take this much further, much more bloodier and significant in terms of death toll and impact. you want ...

>> so what is that? how does one find the may not be enough? what is the thing, any rand you talk about the oil sanctions, there was the removal of iran from the swift system so people just couldnt do any trade with anyone. you can sell carpets, you couldnt sell anything, to anyone who required a different currency, or international bank. what is the equivalent for russia that would really hurt? i assume it is oil and gas stuff, because it is the biggest thing they sell. >> oil and gas would be ...

That will be able to continue now that this incursion appeared to be fully underway, these attacks by russia. is there a sense that you have that the world has done what it could to get ukraine ready? relate to the game? will we still be able to get aid to them? >> i think thats the real question because you have countries that have some ties or at least the previous tie to russia. poland, romania, others that are they going to be the countries that let lethal weapons go across their territory a...

Poland, they being would have increasing amount of leverage on germany and the west. right now germany gets 60% of its energy, 60% of its oil and gas from russia. through nord stream 1 which is currently and still operational. nord stream 2 would limit future exports but they still have nord stream 1. the other pipeline that go from russia to europe all go -- all of them either go through ukraine, which is down here, multiple of them or if they go through belarus controlled by russia. dictator c...

Theater against nuclear armed russia? >> well, i dont think that with nato there and the thrust that he is going to move on baltic states which are probably the most vulnerable. thats probably too much to chew off at this time. i dont have a problem with some level of ramp up. we cant lose our focus on china. nato can take care of with some contribution from us can prevent this from going any further. we have got to remain focused on china. this is an important thing, you know, i think that chin...

Exposed to this. it was an accident done, and the soviets lied about it at the time. imagine a worse accident here. not an accident, but potentially a deliberate action. a disaster or action event created by human actions. that could put a lot of people at risk. until ambassador mcfauls point, it follow solidly the idea that russia is isolated on the world stage, and will reinforce the notion that it is a bad actor, for everybody, not just for ukraine in the west, but for china and other places ...

Implications, the implications for world energy supplies. there are also a bigger picture that the u.s. wants to get out. both russia and the rest of the world. >> thats right. part of what struck me about those comments ... i think it was a reminder, again, i mentioned this leverage and balance where vladimir putin has the military forces right there on ukraines border. it is right next to his country. the united states is far away. what we have is -- we have economic power. we have the power t...

President zelenskyy and vladimir putin of russia are in their third rounds of peace talk negotiation. this is on the heel of zelenskyy singh these next 24 hours would be crucial. its amazing, his address when he says i planned to become a president i said each of us is the president. he went on to say because we are all responsible for our state, for our beautiful ukraine. now it happens that each of us is a warrior. along the backdrop of this incredible resistance some of the ukrainians have be...

The whole idea that putin will be provoked. he already has been. were walking on egg shells with this guy for months now. under the idea we dont want to provoke him. this is a brutal campaign. he has gone from surgical strikes to leveling whole cities and it has to stop. we have to give the ukrainians the weapons they need to defend themselves. >> harris: you know, i do want to ask my team if theyre ready to play something that i believe is the line of the day. if they arent ready ill read it. z...

White house doesnt impose sanctions now. if the white house really is convinced that war and invasion are inevitable, why not slap those sanctions on russia now and make it as painful as possible as soon as possible for the russians to go ahead and invade ukraine? whats the white houses answer to that? >> well, the white house has argued that all of their leverage is these sanctions, and as soon as they impose them they lose that leverage. if they have already punished president putin for an inv...