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This is money. a figure i saw today that because of the unrest, $63 billion in capital has left russia in this quarter alone. that's the kind of thing that is ultimately going to get vladimir putin's attention. is that for a guy who runs a one dimension economy, strong in one respect, fragile in other respects. when that -- you see that kind of capital flight, that is going to get hesitation and obviously the -- get his attention. >> the kiev sending in troops what happens if a couple of guys from kiev look at what the russias are doing, fire off a few round, kill a few russians, other russian...

We agreed to do this four years ago but never implemented it because we agree to do things all the time we don't implement because we have this thing called the united states senate. so they're saying that this is not the right time to do it. now, there has never been a right time to do it over the past four years. the argument is that the imf, in order to be effective in ukraine and for our billion dollars to be effective in ukraine, needs this flexibility to have access to this $63 billion. but the tea party hates anything that smacks of foreigners, and so it is themed to be dead on arrival ...

3 billion pool of money to be moved from an emergency kind of crisis fund into the general fund. we agreed to do this four years ago but never implemented it because we agree to do things all the time we don't implement because we have this thing called the united states senate. so they're saying that this is not the right time to do it. now, there has never been a right time to do it over the past four years. the argument is that the imf, in order to be effective in ukraine and for our billion dollars to be effective in ukraine, needs this flexibility to have access to this $63 billion. but t...

Ukraine. what happens next here? what is the next step in this conflict economically? what is the president willing to do? how far is congress willing to go in order to help him? joining us now is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for the "huffington post." thank you very much for being here. nice to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> i know you were on capitol hill today when the senate voted on advancing that bill about ukraine. what struck you as significant about the vote or the way it went down today? >> well, the republicans who voted to move forward pretty universally did not express...

Basically it would allow the $63 billion pool of money to be moved from an emergency kind of crisis fund into the general fund. we agreed to do this four years ago but never implemented it because we agree to do things all the time we don't implement because we have this thing called the united states senate. so they're saying that this is not the right time to do it. now, there has never been a right time to do it over the past four years. the argument is that the imf, in order to be effective in ukraine and for our billion dollars to be effective in ukraine, needs this flexibility to have ac...