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Weve been covering an effort over this past week to block the trump administration from dropping sanctions against companies associated with a putin allied russian oligarch. deripaska has been sanctioned over russias interference in our election. when the effort to stop the lifting of those sanctions came up for a vote in the senate yesterday, 1 1 republicans brok ranks with the leadership and white house and voted with the democrats that the trump administrations plan to lift those sanctions sh...

We have been covering unexpectedly suspenseful effort over this past week to try to prevent the trump administration from dropping sanctions against companies associated with a putin allying russian oligarch named oleg deripaska. sanctioned over interference in our election. when the effort to stop the lifting of those sanctions came up for a vote in the senate yesterday, 11 republicans broke ranks with republican leadership and the trump white house and voted with the democrats that the trump a...

Of republican votes. you can thank mitt romney and lindsey graham. but check this out. today democrats in the house introduced their own version of this resolution trying to block the lifting of sanctions on deripaskas companies. and in the house they hit it out of the park. the house voted overwhelmingly to stop the trump administration from lifting the deripaska sanctions. the vote in the house was 362-53. of the 362 yes votes, there were 136 republicans who broke ranks, who joined house democ...

Susan lee of the fox business network joins us with details. >> closer, but nowhere near completion on a u.s. trade deal. the white house and the u.s. treasury refuting reports this afternoon, the u.s. was weighing the lifting of some trade tariffs on chinese goods with the administration saying, no new tariff decisions have been made. they did confirm that trade talks are moving to higher levels at the end of this month in washington, d.c., the two main players talking face to face. economists ...

You think we stand right now? im a little confused as to to what the president is wanting to do. >> okay, that is a great question. let me make a comment about what senator paul said. he talks about it is time for them to do the fighting. dana, they have been doing the fighting. the syrian democratic forces, kurds, arabs have been fighting for four years. and we have been providing some assistance to them as i just mentioned. they carried, they did all the hefty lifting. they carried the burden ...

How do members of the senate go home and defend a vote not to strengthen sanctions or not to loosen them on a russian oligarch whose name is in the news just about every night? >> brian, i was really surprised, i have to say. i saw the vote yesterday, you know, and i think we should applaud those 11 republicans, that in the name of the american national interest moved in a bipartisan way to stop the lifting of these sanctions. and let me just be clear. its on the companies that deripaska owns, n...

Home and defend a vote not to strengthen sanctions or not to loosen them on a russian oligarch whose name is in the news just about every night? >> brian, i was really surprised, i have to say. i saw the vote yesterday, you know, and i think we should applaud those 11 republicans, that in the name of the american national interest moved in a bipartisan way to stop the lifting of these sanctions. and let me just be clear. its on the companies that deripaska owns, not deripaska himself. the trump ...

Home and defend a vote not to strengthen sanctions or not to loosen them on a russian oligarch whose name is in the news just about every night? >> brian, i was really surprised, i have to say. i saw the vote yesterday, you know, and i think we should applaud those 11 republicans, that in the name of the american national interest moved in a bipartisan way to stop the lifting of these sanctions. and let me just be clear. its on the companies that deripaska owns, not deripaska himself. the trump ...

Companies connected to deripaska. deripaska is sanctioned because of the u.s. -- because of the russian government interfering in the u.s. presidential election in 2016. now the sanctions on deripaskas companies are consequential. the companies linked to deripaska happen to be huge companies. so even if you set aside the sancti sanctions effects on deripaska personally, unsanctioning these huge russian companies will also be really substantially economically beneficial to the russian economy as ...

In the u.s. presidential election in 2016. now the sanctions on deripaskas companies are consequential. the companies linked to deripaska happen to be huge companies. so even if you set aside the sanctions effects on deripaska personally, unsanctioning these huge russian companies will also just be really substantially economically beneficial to the russian economy as a whole. under american law governing sanctions like this, congress has 30 days to review any decision by the administration to l...