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Yachts, luxury apartments, mansions. weve sanctioned more than 400 russian government officials including key architects of this war. these official and oligarchs have reaped enormous benefit from the corruption connected to the kremlin. and now they have to share in the pain. the private sector is acting as well. over 400 private multinational companies have pulled out of doing business in russia, left russia completely, mcdonalds, and as a result of these the ruble was almost immediately reduc...

I just think we all need to do more and fast. >> a lot of people agree with you. how much pressure can economic sanctions really put on russia right now given weve already seen -- i thought was surprising -- the ruble has already rebounded to where it was a month or so ago? >> so, thats one measure, wolf, of the economy there. the other measure, though, is whats really going on with the -- with the people on the streets? are they able to buy things? do they see this fluctuation in the ruble? do ...

Invasion of a faraway eastern en country suddenly the biggest thing thats ever happepened in our country, in america? its kind of strange given every thing weve got going on in the u.s. right now, and what is it with bidens response to this work was right but its weird too. biden keeps telling us these energy sanctions are going to crash putin, but they havent come of that is clearly not true. putin is fine. the ruble has almost completely recovered since the day russia invaded. so much for dest...

Happening almost for sure is theyre getting intelligence support. and when i mean by that is the chinese intelligence services security services were almost for certain providing information to help the russians in terms of their campaign inside ukraine, but also in dealing with the united states and the eu. even though as you said, theyre trying to distance themselves from the atrocities happening in ukraine, their number one priority still is to keep u.s. busy, to knock the u.s. off of the lea...

Bold action that has been taken through the nato alliance to do what is necessary to sandy clear signal that there will be, as we promised, severe cost and consequence for russias aggression to the point that we have now seen a free fall of the ruble. to the point that we have now seen that russias credit rating has been rated as junk and what we know to be real economic consequence to russia because of putins war. as you know the president of the united states also made the decision to do what ...

>> harris: when he talks about what he is doing with oil reserves and flooding the market with our own oil but we cant produce more, we cant -- right? did you lose me? is he still there? >> yes. i can hear you now, yes. >> harris: when the president talks about this being americans dont pay attention to what anybody else says about it, this is good news. i am looking and maybe one of the other things that triggered this oil reserve is the ruble is bouncing back. and it all has to do with oil and...

The ruble or youre looking at their credit rating or youre looking at interest rates, those sanctions are having an impact right now on the russian economy. john: but again, were they meant to deter or not? >> well, look, before the war obviously we were laying out the consequences in pretty explicit detail with the hope that president putin would take an alternative course. we were trying in that moment to sharpen his choice. we were also at that moment moving u.s. force posture into eastern eu...

Gains, their yachts, their luxury apartments, their mansions. key architects of the world, officials and oligarchs have reaped enormous benefit from the corruption connected to the kremlin, and now they have to share in the pain. the private sector has acted as well. over 400 private multinational companies have pulled out of doing business in russia, left russia completely. from oil companies to mcdonalds. as a result of these unprecedented sanctions, the ruble is almost immediately reduced to ...

India and other countries are helping russia economically. >> john: and the ruble has bounced back. >> made $19 billion since february 24th on selling oil and gas to europe so they are leaky, and he said sanctions work but they have to be firm. also said he believes sanctions would have worked better earlier, tougher, and -- >> john: but they were never meant to deter, what were they, i cant remember. >> hes careful not to get too critical of president biden. hes very thankful of the support of ...

President zelenskyy, a credit to their courageous fighters but we need to make it clear to the ukrainian people that we are with them and we need to continue to bring sanctions down harder and harder on putin, on the ol -- oligarchs, and call allies around the world to join us. >> sandra: this is day 37 of this war and there is signs of optimism from the ukrainian leadership, including zelenskyy he will join bret baier tonight for an interview, hopefully we will hear more about his strategy to w...