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I dont think anybody knows. its doing much more damage, much more quickly than we would have expected. and you know, fareed, the other side of what makes this case exceptional is important. russia is a much more deeply integrated economy into the world than cuba ever was or than iran at the time of the hostages was. and that means that sanctions can do much more to disrupt what was otherwise going on than happened. we never thought about doing sanctions to a country that had hundreds of billions...

And i dont recall... right... so even if there now is an acceptance in the west that they need to take drastic measures, which will be painful at home, but they need to do it to isolate russia completely in economic terms, even if they do it, russia now seems to be feeling it is increasingly resilient. theyve built up massive foreign currency reserves. some say $600 billion worth, or more. theyve struck new trade and energy deals with china, which insulate the russian economy to a certain extent...

Hopefully the ae i.e. can also see what is transpiring. >> pete: the other big take away we cant miss this moment and it would be the same if and when taiwan is taken by the chinese. the coupling of independence on the russian economy, russian energy and same for the chinese, which would be a dangerous endeavor. we are more entangled and they know precisely that, which gives them leverage. that is something we should and ought to extract and bipartisan. >> ainsley: what about the white house ang...

When she was arrested and taken into custody. the film produced by the press service says only february 22. thats the only information the russian government has given us publicly. we dont know alone shes been there. before the war, after the war started. all of this is possible she could be held as some type of leverage. o leve>> okay, kimberly, thank yoo much for joining us this evening. really appreciated. joining me now are joel reuben. former deputy assistant secretary of state. david rhode...

Did they acknowledge maybe the politics is getting ahead of them. >> reporter: look, theyve left the energy sector after theyve done a number of other sanctions for a reason, chuck in is where the really hard stuff comes in and what youve seen the white house try to do is really do, you know, all hands on deck in terms of keeping the allies united, the nato allies and u.s. partners. thats something that president biden talked about every time hes talked about ukraine this week, hes really emphas...

Leverage in overseas bis deals. this is a major admission from the times published by "new york post" in 2020, right before the presidential election. the fox news in 2020 first reported the fbi was in possession of the laptop in connection with the money laundering investigation. the reports revealing the trove of e-mails, text messages photos and financial documents between hunter biden, his family and business associates, discussing over seas business dealings. in 2020. the were dismissed as ...

Situation, but i think weve got to double down, help the ukrainians as much as we can so that they might be able to eventually have some leverage to get to a negotiating table with putin. >>, just mentioned it. the administration trying to convince poland, obviously a nato ally, to send its big fighter jets to ukraine, but they are running into some resistance. why is that? >> well, lets face it. if you are poland and you are watching the russians march across ukraine, you start to get pretty ne...

We are can temporarily down my contemporaneously be going to be a pain in yours. but the killing has to stop. like we do have leverage in all of this. i just dont know if we are using it all. general kellogg last hour said there are ways with force, pull and wanting to send those miggs, hes got a listen to the general, the president. i think this is interesting. moments ago we listened life to secretary of state blinken out the u.k. representation, they were caught holding a bilateral joint news...

Aid to the ukrainians. the longer the ukrainians fight, the more likely that putin will lose. >> and when we talk about the leverage with china, that conversation with president xi today. it will take a while before we better understand what they are in fact doing. they could really bail russia out if they helped counteract the freeze on the central bank. we dont expect they would help with weapons. they could certainly provide a constructive role by pressuring putin. from your experience and wa...

Unit from a terror list. senior national correspondent rich edson has the latest tonight from the state department. >> israeli prime minister naftali bennett and foreign minister are warning the united states to keep irans islamic revolutionary guard corps listed as a foreign terrorist organization. they rank the irgc is a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of people, including americans. we find it hard to believe that the irgcs division as a terrorist organization will be remov...