>> oren stand by, phil mattingly at the white house. almost overnight the u.s. and its allies will turn russia into a financial pariah with crippling sanctions. you are reporting about the behind the scenes months long diplomacy. >> the scale and velocity of the sanctions package surprised even some officials here at the white house. but the origins of that package, actually getting to that outcome started in mid-november. it was at that point i'm told by several officials that three cabinet agencies, officials from three cabinet agencies across the national security council really put the full weight of the biden administration behind crafting that package, trying to let their european counterparts in particular, but also those in the uk, australia, canada, other countries as well, know what was coming and what they thought the response should be, and the scale of that response changed over time. it evolved over time. it evolved in particular over the course of the last several days when one european official told me that they saw what was happening, they saw the images but they also heard directly