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Order in order to basically assert ukraine sovereignty. those sanctions were mainly about ukraine. there were some additional sanctions they put on that were also aimed at punishing russia for their information operation against the united states which i suspect is very much still ongoing. this idea of putting it behind us is a bit of a fantasy as well. if it's ongoing you can't really put it behind you. by wide majority which is pending for the house to take action on, that law, that piece of legislation, which is not yet law, is addressed at punishing russia for what they did in the ukraine....

These are all things that president trump wants to be taking action on, and i understand that the president is quite frustrated with the senate nor not doing more. but he at this point just doesn't have a lot of leverage or political capital left to give this a push on capitol hill. >> all right. philip rucker, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> i'm joined by josh earnest, former white house press secretary under present obama. josh, there's a bit of news today, which is the house intel committee issued seven subpoenas for flynn and for cohen, and then unmasking requests, sort of l...

Operation, a war room to deal with these russia questions and revive the agenda. health care has gone nowhere. tax reform has gone no. there's no infrastructure plan. these are all things that president trump wants to be taking action on, and i understand that the president is quite frustrated with the senate nor not doing more. but he at this point just doesn't have a lot of leverage or political capital left to give this a push on capitol hill. >> all right. philip rucker, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> i'm joined by josh earnest, former white house press secretary under pres...

Disagreement on that, but it's a question of whether that's the only area or whether you look at other areas. that's what president trump and his team are looking at, yes, we still have threats. it's different in nature. you don't have a soviet empire, all the satellite countries in the same way as he did before, but you also have this new threat of global terrorism that really is something that's emerged in the last few years. that's clearly a threat to our security. so when he -- >> leland: it is, but there's an irony in the sense that the only time of article five, the cornerstone of nato, ...

Next person is in place? >> we're going to bring in the rest of the panel in a moment. we continue to get new information minute by minute. evan perez joins us. what have you been learning? >> anderson, one of the backdrops of what happened today is this complaints from the white house from the president and from the attorney general to jim comey, the now former fbi director, complaining about leaks. while the fbi and while the justice department have been working on the russia investigation, the investigation into trump ties, trump associates ties to russia, the complaints from the white hous...