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Get it about the in moscow and throughout russia, how significant that is. how much those people are taking really their lives, their livelihood, well, that is the sentiment among so many people. how do you express it? weve had it on social media. had calls on social media for all decent people to come out onto the streets because they have a responsibility as russian citizens to say no to all of this. yes the police are out in force. its the seventh anniversary of the assassination of oppositio...

President biden has been speaking with his national security team regularly today to receive updates on russia and ukraine. we know his team has been monitoring those reports that russia put their nuclear readiness -- russia elevated their nuclear readiness. >> first of all, george, this is really a pattern we have seen from president putin through the course of this conflict. which is manufacturing threats that do not exist in order to justify further aggression. in the global community and ame...

Simply not allow the russians to occupy that country unimpeded over the long term. and so this is not in the interests of russia to move forward with a war that will ultimately bring death and destruction to ukraine but also to russians. our best shot, though, as you mentioned is making clear to the russians that there will be absolutely crippling heretofore unseen in american history sanctions on the russian economy and on the political and economical leads that surround putin. so i know that t...

This is this part of what the senate youre a part of wanted to do? is it not enough? where does it fit in? >> i think we need to keep ratcheting the pressure up on the oligarchs that surround putin. i think you have to lk at the russian gornnt as essentially a racketeering enterprise with putin as the principle, the leader of the gang. and all of his capos are the leading oligarchs around him. and the most significant way to put pressure on him is to go after the oligarchs and to try to put as m...

So experts that i speak to say that sanctioning putin obviously would be a monumental stab. it would be very strong signal that would be sent to him. but this also, the sanctions that we saw implemented on friday, sent a strong signal to russias ruling class. sends a strong signal to the oligarchs that surround putin and in many ways are his kind of storing his money, are his arms of power throughout the world and throughout russia itself. it was a significant move. its going to hurt vladimir pu...