sanctions tonight. australia, japan, taiwan, we heard this about u. s. sanctions from a former treasury official. take a listen. >> what he is trying to do is make russia an international pariah and telling the whole world you need to partner with us and not doing business with russia. in not buying whatever good, or service they have from russia. it gives us a negotiating bargaining tip for future negotiations, to remove those sanctions, and overtime it will financially undermine russia's military. >> ambassador, how effective do you think the sanctions are going to be, and will holding back the harsher punishments, the harsher sanctions potentially deter far more violent aggression? >> first, i support 100% with the biden administration, when they announce today, and all of the other allies, especially with the germans did with nord stream 2. when there is a wrong action, there has to be a response. proud to be a punitive response, no matter what. i support it 100%. second,