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Decision, what president biden did was lay out clearly consequences if he chooses to move. >> video the call coming from russian state media. watch. >> good to see you again. last time we didnt get to see one another at the g 20, next time i hope we do it in person. >> the white house not divulging the extent of the economic sanctions threat if putin invades but acknowledge they are prepared to go farther than what was imposed in 2014 and sullivan says biden made no concessions on putins demand ...

Sponsorship. not a single one. i mean, how does the chai inese government view all this? >> well, they have a lot of leverage against smaller countries, countries smaller than the united states, economic leverage they have used in the past to punish countries that do things even if the united states asks them. for example, canada. the united states had an extradition request for the huawei cfo and she was detained in canada. they were honoring their relationship with the united states. two canad...

You again. last time we didnt get to see one another at the g 20 but i hope next time we do it in person. >> reporter: the white house did not divulge the extent of the sanctions package which could include targeting russias biggest banks but acknowledged they are prepared to go further than what was imposed in 2014 and biden made no concessions on putins demand to block ukraine from joining nato and sullivan suggesting lord stream 2 pipeline could be used as a tool as well. >> gas is not flowin...

We will stop taking oil through the nord stream 2 pipeline, and that means money out of vladimir putins pocket. here is a little bit about what jake sullivan had to say regarding that yesterday. >> the fact is that gas is currently not flowing through the nord stream 2 pipeline which means its not operating, which means that its not leverage for putin. indeed, it is leverage for the west because if vladimir putin wants to see gas flow through that pipe library he may not want to take the risk of...

What it is that steve bannon hopes to get out of this whole experience. i think the pressure it puts on people like meadows is it forces him to decide are -- you know, is mark meadows going to be a true blue -- or i guess a true red maga loyalist or is he going to try to keep one foot in the respectable corporate republican establishment world? and what bannon is doing is forcing the issue in a way you really cant do both. you cant straddle and now trump has taken notice of this and is furious a...

Anderson, because putin basically dines out on that. anytime his polling falls inside russia, he simply says you got to rally. nato is coming. >> there are obviously sanctions that the president is threatening. i mean, beyond that, what sort of leverage does the u.s. really have here? >> well, you know, certainly i mean i dont know if they would do this but they have talked about kicking russia off the swift international payment system, which would be a huge problem for russia. but, you know, i...

Doing what it did with the nordstream pipeline gifting that to vladimir putin without giving any concessions in return totally destroyed the american leverage play with regard to vladimir putin and russia and jake sullivan said we do have leverage because the oil isnt on but if you go back a few months you would have had more leverage of the pipeline wasnt in place in the first place. >> interesting that after president biden supported the nordstrom 2 pipeline overseas which is the pipeline that...

Used as leverage. >> gas is not currently flowing through the nord stream 2 pipeline which means it is not operating. it is leveraged for the west because if vladimir putin wants to seek out flow through that pipeline he may not want to take the risk of invading ukraine. >> satellite images show putins forces massing tens of thousands of troops as gop lawmakers sound harsh criticism. >> putin is a wolf. i think he thinks that president biden is weak. i think he thinks that president biden is a s...

Um, uh, um, that we had a chance actually to bring then russia, a much more democratic russia, into europe. into a more democratic europe and i think the decision to -- to sacrifice that, um, to extend nato to poland and hungary and eastern europe was a huge mistake and its the mistake that just keeps on giving, anderson, because putin basically dines out on that. anytime his polling falls inside russia, he simply says you got to rally. nato is coming. >> there are obviously sanctions that the p...

Believe the president on ukraine when his national security adviser reportedly held up aid earlier this year. its hard to believe whats coming out of president bidens mouth when these are the same people that putin dealt with in 2014 whenever he invaded crimea and everyone said really strong words. and issued really intense tweets. but really nothing else happened. steve: sure, you know, leverage. the thing about nord stream 2 the pipeline, thats going to be a lot of money in putins pocket. and ...