Sanctions Activity News Today

Sanctions on the two independent territories, nothing on russia or putin directly yet. this is not triggering the unleashing of the full sanctions package that the white house has been talking about for some time now saying that thats what would happen and that thats what they would do in coordination with allies if the full-scale invasion would occur and a senior official said because russia has had forces in in area since 2014 they dont consider this to be a new step. of course, you are seeing...

>> they need to be on the same page, and we have a white house that is not on the same page with itself and the american public. we are asking while the legislature but youre right, two big tracks some tough decisions to make. one, a spending bill that will include more defense spending. stomach for the u.s. to support europe. as it attempts to combat russias maligned behavior. then sanctions activity, its been divided on both of these since biden took office. its hard to see them coming togethe...

Now as jim said, they also promised more sanctions activity but would not get into the details of what that actually looks like. and for the president, i think that we can expect him today to do more, to be more engaged as we know that he met with his national security team yesterday as well as talked to official alzheimers in germany, france, and of course the president of ukraine as they are starting to kind of get that criticism about what they have done so far is not enough. now one thing th...

And thats why we talk about how russia continues to back syria. in terms of other sanctions activity, that is something we are taking a look at. >> harris: live in london with the latest on this. >> the clash between the united states and russia over the crisis in syria is continuing on the ground in the region. specters from the chemical weapons watchdog agency still not getting to the alleged gas attack, saying they are being blocked by syrian and russian officials. they claim more security cl...

I cant comment on that from the state department. i can tell you we believe we degraded their ability to use chemical weapons to kill people. >> bill: i understand the point youre making. stunning to me over the weekend to learn these facilities in at least three different locations are still in tact today. >> that could be newly learned intelligence. i dont have that information but i know our people are the best at figuring that out. >> bill: what can you tell us about the newest russian sanct...

Making it the g-7 again. some sort of sanctions activity will likely be proposed by the u.s. senate and house. but in all likelihood, what we saw in 2008 when the russians invaded part of georgia, will recur here. we can do some things, but russia is big, russia has a lot of cash from its petro dollars over the past several years and it likely isnt going to be deterred any time soon. >> michael, despite being an independent sovereign state, we know that most of crimeas residents, at least, are p...

Fears. >> there has been a steady increase in our sanctions activity. this is part of that escalation. its not related specifically to that issue or the questions about it. >> sean: while tensions between israel and iran near a bordering point the hostage crisis is under way this hour in egypt. 19 american citizens will stand trial for allegedly inciting unrest in the wake of mir hossein mousavis fall from, did mir hossein mousavi fall from a power and he along with 18 other pro-democracy activi...

Fears. >> there has been a steady increase in our sanctions activity. this is part of that escalation. its not related specifically to that issue or the questions about it. >> sean: while tensions between israel and iran near a bordering point the hostage crisis is under way this hour in egypt. 19 american citizens will stand trial for allegedly inciting unrest in the wake of mir hossein mousavis fall from, did mir hossein mousavi fall from a power and he along with 18 other pro-democracy activi...