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On nord stream-2? a favor for hunter? and give putin even more leverage. why was he helping putin in russia get rich again just like germany who rely on putin for the lifeblood of their economy. this is the one sanction that would be the single most effective and the one they are willing the least to do. why? here with reaction iowa senator joanie is where us. who just received a classified briefing on the latest developments in ukraine. if the argument by the climate alarmists cult people is th...

Should the rest of us be prepared to endure if we impose sanctions, which they impact us and make our lives more challenging. what is the realistic thing for us to expect as we try to punish russia? >> a good question. a complex one. short answer is higher prices. we should demand of our government is this stop attacking our fossil fuel industry. f department of energy could approve about 6% mitts right now -- 6 -- permits, we could start to over take russias dominance, their market share global...

Retaliation for american sanctions, specifically, that putin could target americans doing business in russia if they comply with u.s. sanctions. how much of a concern is that right now in. >> this is an enormous concern. its a really important point. all right russia holds several americans necessary insurance hostage. if you are a u.s. business person doing business here, this is not a place you want to be. you want to leave. russia will arrest you on trumped-up charges. they will hold you some...

Alert. what does that mean? >> i think he is trying to express his displeasure at the west, u.s. and europe. with the vows to launch an insurgency in ukraine and supply ukrainians with arms, when we armed the mujahidh resistance in afghanistan we took great pains for that to be a covert operation, we denied we were involved, bought ak-47s from the chinese. and a big difference when you are directly giving weapons to people who are killing russians, they would view that as an act of war. that cou...

Holding her. obviously, this is going to the top, and he is holding a moment of opportunity. you see the sanctions are really starting to hurt. he saying that the sanctions are an act of war. and now, he has a chess piece. the question about whether shes going to be used for leverage, of course hes going to be used for the leverage. obviously, this is not gonna be a chip in him stopping the war. but that he needs certain things from the united states. you saw that the state department announced ...

The clutter clocks have leverage over him to say you have to stop this. of course, as i said, especially acting government officials. but also the man of money, which we would call -- in russian our low guards. of course they profit from his policies. and they help in one way or another, to implement those policies. so if we both have the army to implement your orders. there is no offensive. it includes the top man of the military, and it includes the top matter of the security apparatus. so of ...

Those threats in reserve so as to be able to exercise maximum leverage. now, the challenge for us is to bring these early successes to some kind of conclusion, and thats a very dangerous and complex thing, but i think one has to give the biden administration enormous credit for whats been done so far. i think the concept of escalating sanctions over time, never firing your last and most brutal bullet so as to maintain leverage is a very good one. i worry -- i worry slightly,

Take, as he believes. one former congressman david -- and an embassy political analyst, david thanks for joining us on this. we appreciate it. listen, this is a question ive been asking from the get-go as we have been speaking about this possible invasion, now subsequent -- as russia is inside ukraine. are these sanctions going to be enough to deter putin? the threat of them was not enough to deter him from invading ukraine, and now the sanctions have been leverage not only against his people, w...

This war on private vehicle ownership and use in the united states. but it is very convenient. they shut down americas pipelines but canceled leases for oil and natural gas drilling. they put enormous new restrictionsew on the abiliy to explore and expand energyom domestically and others say,e oh , well, youre f really payig more for energy because of vladimir putin really has nothing to do with any of the policy choices that weve made here in america. the truth is theres one problem america sho...

You just showed. tokarev makes his money through the pipelines, very close to putin. as part of the oil and gas machine, and as long as we buy that, he will be fine. others have homes in london and dubai and wants to be part of the international system. he was the first deputy prime minister when i was ambassador. in other words, he wants to be part of that world. but neither of them have power over putin. so shabalov and some of those others, guess what? theres hard liners around putin that say...