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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 huge. but it also gives them, that also gives leverage for them. because russia is so integrated into the international financial system, they do make it a target that is easy to hit with sanctions. but at the same time, they could retaliate and there would be backlash on u.s., and european business, and al...

About the encirclement of russia, vladimir putin using that as justification whether hes making it for propaganda reasons or believes it but that is encirclement of ukraine. youve seen encirclement of ukraine. how long he has prepared to take out ukraine. speaking of resources i am mystified what they were taking out. it was vladimir putin believing his own propaganda believing it could be done without taking things out. my initial reaction showing you how much we dont know is what our perceptio...

Men. there are concerns because of the explosions theyre hearing in mykolaiv on. we heard shelling there. all of this about russia trying to get the leverage of securing the black sea coast. with each move forward, we see the resistance of local ukrainian populations and the fear that russia will use more barbaric tactics. there have been reports of that in kherson. it is beginning to provide an early picture about what russias presence may look like as it moves into population centers. . >> sig...

Russian authorities. in terms of specific details, theres still a lot of unanswered questions in this case. >> okay. there have to be some concerns, given the tensions right now, that she could be used as a political pawn. is anybody expressing that? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. she is facing some really serious charges. drug trafficking charges in russia carry a possible sentence of up to ten years behind bars. so people are looking at the severity of that sentence and the fact that shes a ce...

Economy in the world, everyone wants to do business with us, but if you say if you do business with russia, you conditions also do business with -- cant also do business with us thatim would limit access to capital to russia. russias economy is smaller than the size of texas economy. they have a small economy, they depend on their exports of oil and natural gas, if we put real leverage on them in cutting off their oil and gas sources to the world, we supply them to the world. that would really m...

Their own weight in this conflict, we allowed ourselves to be in this moment energy dependence on other people through european weakness to arrive at this moment were now we are stuck with lame prudent and the only thing we have left right now is sanctions. we all know the weakness of sanctions. >> what i will say, i definitely think that was to move back to trying to find her way to energy independence and even help in the world and perhaps the french will now depend more nuclear, germany depen...

Firmly against nord stream 2 because of the liberty dave the russians for study biden administration backpedaled on that as soon as they came into office. we understood realpolitik, the real world of it, and if you signed up for nord stream 2 but it was going to give the russians tremendous leverage over the germans. one of the reasons we are probably where we are is the germans were fairly neutral in this for a long time, the united states is a long way away, germany is right there, major power...

Just said, look at this. 595,000 barrels of oil imported per day from russia. get this, look at the information on the right. 830,000 barrels per day if that keystone xl pipeline was operational. how horrific of a decision does that look in hindsight? we told him it would be horrific issue but especially now? >> brian: geo politic system about leverage, canceling keystone gave putin all the leverage. he knows it, that is why hes doing what he is doing right now. we dont have that to be in situat...

And continue this war on private vehicle ownership and use in the united states? >> it is very convenient. they shut down americas pipeline. canceled leases for oil and natural gas drilling and put enormous new restrictions on the ability to explore and expand energy domestically and now theyre saying you will be paying more for energy because of vladimir putin. so it has nothing to do with any of the situations we have made here in america. the truth is there is one problem, america should trul...

Coming on the russian the middle eastern countries of the world that know that they have is because we have no other options when it comes to making sure that our industry continues to run. the same thing in europe. youre fighting a battle with one hand behind your back when you are sanctioning part of russian industry. the biggest and most lucrative and valuable part you are not impacting. that is what vladimir putin did when he ran the analysis on what the sanctions would mean treating you tha...