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Aggravation of the situation. sullivan security advisor will go to capitol hill today to brief lawmakers and many of them are growing impatient that president biden is just waiting for putin to act. they want to do something first. >> the best thing that can happen is for us to pass the sanctions package pre-invasion with a waiver post invasion sanctions that would destroy the ruble and cripple the russian economy so putin could see it in writing. that might help him decide not to invade. we sho...

At munich, the president of ukraine, he says the lack of writing it down now makes putin believe its not going to happen later. and if you really believe an invasion is anytime soon now, well, why wouldnt you tell putin and ukraine whats going to come putins way and the help coming ukraines way? we made a mistake here. so i cant rectify that mistake in the next 48 hours, but i do believe that republicans and democrats are coming away from this conference with a determination to crush the ruble, ...

Themselves from cyberattacks. it prevents the nord stream 2 from becoming operational. thats very, very important. and if there is an invasion, it is devastating hispanics are much tougher post invasion than the sanctions contemplated by our democratic colleagues in the administration. and specifically, the category that i think is most important, the big difference between our two approaches, is in our bill we impose secondary sanctions on russian banks. that has the effect of really shutting d...

European continent. just security within a nato on the european continent. just going back to the donbas _ european continent. just going back to the donbas issue, _ european continent. just going back to the donbas issue, we _ european continent. just going back to the donbas issue, we mentioned| to the donbas issue, we mentioned the duma requires about recognising it formally —— request. that has been going on, it is de facto since 2014, it has been recognised? this upping of conflict with...

Inside russia close to -- multiple airports in the southern part of russia, close to ukraine, those are being closed. i know thats not, surprising to prevent civilian aircraft flying while there is an air campaign taking place, close to those airports. another piece of news, on the financial side, the moscow exchange has been suspended. after shares dropped heavily, the rubble is frankly in free fall. its hard to tell whats the value of the rubles right now, because its a straight line down agai...

Western sanctions. but these new measures aimed at the central bank may make it very difficult for him to access that war chest, and as a result, the ruble, or the value of the ruble is likely to tumble over the next couple of days. and that is gonna take a real toll on ordinary, middle class russians, who really have nothing to do with this war. and its a reminder that sanctions are often targeted at the political leadership of the country, but it is every day, middle class people who you often...

Selectively closing down s.w.i.f.t., the global financial messaging system thats used to move money from one international bank to another. so thats going to pretty well freeze the individual banks or oligarchs or others to either find another way to move their money thats slow and dangerous for them or keep their money in -- in moskow. the second thing that theyve done that was really more notable is go after the russian central bank so that it cant intervene to try to stabilize the ruble. the ...

Front of him, that is the ceo of the oil producing and refining wing of gazprom. we have all these images because they are part of a weird televised meeting that putin held with russian business leaders today. after russia invaded the value of the russian ruble plummeted to an all-time low. this meeting was basically putin performative lee ushering the big heads of russian businesses and finance and the audience watching on tv that actually, do not believe the hype. the russian economy is going ...

Sanctions. >> translator: i invited you in order to talk about the issues concerning the economy and finance. mikhail and i have discussed this, including the sanctions that the so-called western community or the empire of lies, as i call it in my address is trying to implement against my country. >> moscows stock market did not open today. the value of russias currency has taken a major dive. and russias central bank forced to more than double its interest rate to boost the sinking ruble. senio...

If those sanctions had been stronger, would we be here today? >> i think its a good question. i fear that perhaps we shouldve been stronger in 2014. the reasons that we werent stronger in 2014, though, are many fold. as you heard earlier, we were surprised by the crimea annexation. we didnt expect that to happen. when we imposed sanctions in 2014, for the preceding 25 years the thrust of u.s. strategy toward russia from gorbachev on ward were to integrate russia into the global economy. this was...