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Confirmed. peter, let's talk about sanctions. yesterday, the state department basically said that there's not going to be new sanctions on russia, since sanctions are already in place and they're already working as a deterrent, even though they listed the -- they released this list of oligarchs today, this congressionally man dadated lisf oligarchs that were supposed to be sanctioned further as a punishment. senator menendez asked steve mnuchin today about this on the hill. listen to what he said. >> do you agree with the assessment for our intelligence community that russia used a hybrid of p...

Will be shut down. those are compounds largely used by those russian diplomats. andrea mitchell reporting earlier in the hour that they were largely recreational. sanctions as well. some senior officials and military intelligence also adding some cyber defense tools to u.s. companies, we're told. that is what we know at this point. again, there has been some indication there may be or may have been some covert action as well. we heard a short time ago from vladimir putin through a spokesperson that they are planning some sort of retaliation for our retaliation. nbc's matt bradley joins us now ...

Seeing now is there is sort of a debate within the administration to see which becomes the higher priority. is it multilateralism which has become very obvious in the last couple of weeks or the old-style defense tools we have and i think this administration shows a capacity to do more than one thing at the same time so i think it will continue as it should. >> all right, we're out of time so we will wrap it up, thanks for coming in and for discussing the nuclear situation with iran as well. >> thank you. five arrests made at a neo nazi protest that turned violent in los angeles this weekend...

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