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Make sure that to sell their assets and give this money to ukraine. this is critical -- >> all right. >> -- especially on the terms of the sanctions effort. >> keira, thank you for joining us and responding to that breaking news. please do stay safe. >> thank you. and glory to ukraine! >> thank you. up next, what we know about the special grand jury now seated in the investigation into whether donald trump illegally tried to influence georgias 2020 vote count. but first, were live in ohio ahea...

You know, its been interesting to see i know the white house has said and the president has talked about wanting to speak with one voice for the g-7 nations. but it seems like the white house has been following some of the g-7 nation. u.k., germany announcing the specific direct sanctions on putin today before the white house. yesterday the president said he wasnt going to do that. 24 hours later he did. your thought about the sanctions? >> well, i think the key point here is that the u.s. has b...

Includes a full swift man and a g7 ending _ includes a full swift man and a g7 ending issues of russian oil and gas _ ending issues of russian oil and gas. united states, uk this week announced our plans to stop importing russian oil and the eu have _ importing russian oil and the eu have announced their plans to reduce their dependency also. we want to encourage — their dependency also. we want to encourage a wider group of countries to get— encourage a wider group of countries to get on—...

Situation here of the president grappling with how to deal with the rising nuclear threat here. its key, of course, he is having a meeting right now with the president of south korea, and then a working lunch with the president of south korea as well as the japanese prime minister. clearly two partners in this. important to point out china not here at the u.n., not in new york. china will have to be part of any successful north korean sanctions effort. ana? >> and elise, we know that south korea...

A person within the treasury department whose job it is, adam zoobin is the undersecretary for counterterrorism and financial crimes, hes been waiting for congress to approve his position for 240 some days. why wont they approve whose job it is to financially fight isis? >> john, hes respected by democrats and republicans alike who has been the expert who has designed so much of our sanctions effort and congress has to get beyond politics and move a nominee who needs all asset at his disposal to...

Managed to get these people, russia china, much of the europeans to say, you know what we are going to participate in a sanctions effort since 2013 with the intent of getting the iranians to negotiate a deal and thats what weve done. and then let me just say, what do we get? i said tokimberly. we get them as a partner under pressure from some of their economic allies in trying to bring peace and stability to the middle east. >> you think this is going bring peace -- >> this has the potential. >>...

Thing. were willing to freeze, have everything monitored, but no dismantling. how do you bridge those two positions? >> well, the reason were here, of course, is because of the tremendous pressure thats been put on the iranian economy through the u.s.-led sanctions effort. president rouhani took a stand in the article you referenced, but theres going to have to be roll back of the program. they will have to ensure the international community to solid ways theyre not pursuing a nuclear weapon and...

When he said that irans nuclear programs are for peaceful purposes only, he was lying. jenna: that said, is there anything that we could do in our behavior in our speech that would change the intension of the iranian regime at this point? >> well the only reason weve had any kind of conciliation from iran because we imposed fairly punitive sanctions on iran and so instead of, the american policy should be to redouble the sanctions effort and make the threat of military force that much more credi...

White house today is denying reports it refused to take a meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu when he visits the u.n. later this month. why do you think things stand between these two leaders. you probably heard mr. netanyahu has been quoted as saying, those who wont put down a red line for iran have no moral right to put a red line down before israel. >> well, red lines are tough, both george w. bush and barack obama tried red lines with iran saying that they cant be allowed ...

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