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Use the banking. interest rates doubling to 20% and the ruble crashing and the stock market closed at least for today and tomorrow and possibly the week. all of that is going to have an impact. finally we have seen the images of president putin meeting with the central bankers and financial ministers today. you get the wide shot and such a distance and paints a picture of a president isolated, even from his inner circle and takes me back to the beginning of this answer. really the question is, b...

Here in the russian capital theres real fear and uncertainty. as you said, today is the first day that markets are open since the western sanctions were put in place to take the russian banks off the s.w.i.f.t. system targeting the russian tral bank and this is shaping up to be potentially a day of historic economic carnage here in russia. the ruble is trading at an all-time low and people are extremely frightened about what this means for them. over the weekend the european union also closed eu...

Jon: new video of russian troops guarding the territory of will luhansk in ukraine. putin used that move as a pretext to begin invading ukraine five days ago. the fallout is hitting the russian economy very hard. the russian ruble already at an all-time low against the dollar. for more on the potential economic impact of the invasion. ted bud joins us. hes a member of the house financial services committee. the vice president said explicitly that sanctions would prevents, or the threat of

That opportunity to swing public opinion and as you say, finding brutus back home. frankly the moment theres also a fear that when he knows is either do-or-die, he becomes increasingly more aggressive than he might lash out and thats what people are concerned about as well. >> shannon: you think about if this is really a shelling, direct attack on the nuclear facility, that does start to make you think. is putin going for broke? as bret said and what rubio tweeted. has he gone to a point where y...

Ukraine without facing any fighting, we are seeing now that is just not the case. the ukrainian people are defending their own country with bravery and courage and dignity and we are helping them with weaponry and supplies and will continue to do that. he also miscalculated if he thought that the united states and our partners and allies around the world were bluffing when we said that the russian economy would face massive, massive consequences, putin to go forward with these plans. president b...

Strategic petroleum reserves, whether he gets allies that are oil-producing nations to step up to the plate, or whether he permits some increase of domestic production on lands that are already in production. >> senator, big picture here, for now, it looks like none of this has had an impact on the russian government, right. putin is more defiant, seems. to be more intent on trying to strike back, and he may be reacting emotionally. it isnt easy to see how this ends. do you have a sense of where...

And it is bound to get more bloody and brutal, david. >> and martha, i know youre learning more tonight about what your sources at the pentagon believe about vladimir putin, perhaps his state of mind and youve learned that hes gone to the military command center several times, demanding repeated updates? >> reporter: he has. putin is described as erratic, but totally intent on seeing this war through. a senior official says he is spending more time in the military command center, basically a bun...

Mika. >> you remember at the end of eight, it was one of these wonderful moments where three things were said and luke skywalker said, "everything that you just said is wrong." well, we could lift that clip and put at the end of donald trumps speech there because he is talking about stupid. i mean and saying our leaders are stupid, we have -- we have done everything right. the west is doing everything right. vladimir putin didnt listen to our warning. you talk about somebody who is dumb, the rub...

But if youre in ukraine or have loved ones there, it is a fair question, could more be done? >> yes, and certainly i think what were seeing as well is that children are at risk. and i think were at this moment too where were watching as that is increasingly going to take place. the specter of that is really what president volodymyr zelenskyy was raising before the european parliament today as well. >> one thing being done is clear lit clearly the sanctions here. the ruble crashed it a record low...

Now, a plummeting ruble. senior administration official saying fortress russia will be exposed as a myth and then european union taking similar steps in coordination with the united states and we learned switzerland, famously remained neutral in conflicts throughout history, also adopting many of these eu sanctions and freezing the assets of many of these russian oligarchs held in swiss banks. a hugely significant step. separately at this hour, president biden will be meeting with nato leaders a...