CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper February 18, 2022 21:20:00
>> reporter: you know, pamela, sanctions have been imposed for a very long time. when you look at ukraine, it's been happening since crimea which would be 2014. and there is a debate, you know. do they actually work? now, concretely, they have damaged the russian economy. there is no question. but putin decided early on that what he was going to have is counter sanctions. so what he did was he deliberately said, no european products, no european cheese, et cetera. but he also began building up domestically some of the industries that really weren't very well developed. so he's been able to, i ...