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then you and then change topics. >> one thing you mentioned is, sorry, you said the united states will continue -- sorry, the united states will continue to impose costs on wagner or its successor. is there any indication right now that wagner is actually standing up a successor organization? >> i think i said or successor if any. we have noted the announcements by the ministry of defense that wagner forces are supposed to be absorbed into the ministry of defense. we dont have any asse...

The United States has reversed its 2023 relaxation of certain sanctions against Venezuela in response to failures by representatives of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro to uphold...

Speak to any intelligence matters, as i never do, from this podium. you didnt need a classified briefing to know there were tensions between yevgeny prigozhin and the russian ministry of defense. hes been quite open about those and theyve been escalating for the last several months. with respect to american citizens in russia, separate and apart from this matter, weve been quite clear that any american citizens considering travel to russia should not do so and any american citizens in russia sho...

Well as visa restrictions on 635 russians who according to the treasury department who are oppressing dissent inside of russia and threaten the territorial integrity of ukraine. obviously notable this came just a couple of days after the president met with 11 world leaders from different countries. this is a continued effort by the president to have a united front and to do these sanctions actions in coordination with other major economies around the world. >> jeremy, talk to us about this meeti...

So i think the bottom line is, not only are the sanctions going to russia immediately and send the russian economy into a tailspin, but russias capacity to do harm, russias power is going to be significantly damping as long as he is president because of the sanctions that day, lawrence. >> rachel, when you saw, when youve been studying the package of sanctions two days ago, what stands out to you as the most powerful tools that the president is using now? >> well, the blocking sanctions are amon...

Administration impose yesterday against these two large russian banks, against russian elites and individuals, and also against russias sovereign debt that more is going to come. we heard the deputy national security adviser this morning say that it wouldnt necessarily require additional russian military action that the u.s. will continue to impose cost, is the wording he used there, and we know the u.s. has a lot more left in its sanctions bag it could potentially use against russia. weve heard...

And you just dont know if the sanctions would have any deterrent effect. >> if we would have sum cost many, many months ago, i dont think that would have had the capability. simon. >> yeah, the secretary said yesterday hed cancel his meeting with lavrov, but you guys remain open to diplomacy. so what exactly would you want to see from russia in order to reschedule the meeting, to resume some kind of diplomacy, diplomatic talks between? and just an additional one. you sort of, this is the last, t...

President trump for taking sanctions action against russia when he did. ill remind you that bill passed the senate 98 to 2. the president opposed our pushing him to take those sanctions actions, but he did. and i think he took the right action against bashar al assad in syria by striking his military asits when he used a poison gas against his own people again. i think those were the right steps for the president to take. but frankly the trump administration has dragged its feet on implementing ...

Commercial facilities, water, aviation, critical manufacturing systems, theyve all been targeted by the russian government. and thats part of this sanctions actions taking place today. to your point, on the attack in february of this year, this was the attribution of it. the actual attack occurred last year. basically, this was a cyberattack that decimated britains entire health system. their national health system got -- had massive failures in their ability to get the records of their patients...