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His view according to how we understand it is that the west is talking the talk but is not walking the walk. so today's sanctions are important as a message that it is real, it is happening, and there will be more of them, and it is not only the united states who imposed sanctions on russia, also the european union, united kingdom. that's why we talk about broad international coalition that's focused on deterring putin. i don't know what is on his mind, how he will act overnight. it is important he saw the readiness to adopt decisions swiftly and decisions which inflict damage on him. >> what'...

Changed his behavior so far. more consequential has been the resistance that ukrainians have offered to russian military forces but if it doesn't change his behavior immediately, the idea is to punish and keep escalating the cost on russia to deter it down the road. the one thing that the president underscored in those remarks is he talked about the article v commitment under nato that only applies to military, so he was implicitly redrawing that line saying that the united states is not going to commit military force to ukraine. that is the line to watch as we go further and as economic deter...

Zelenskyy has wanted so often, which is a call for the no-fly zone. they refuse to escalate there because it could escalate further into a world war iii. there's alarming calls, saying they are running out of missiles, and we heard from the president also talking about sanctions and how they are unleashing -- it's a devastating barrage, but they have not really done much in terms of deterring putin's behavior. they will continue to put pressure on him and the people around him, those oligarchs, as well as restricting the everyday lives of your average russian, and the president was forced to a...

Our objective. >> dana: you could go on and on. what do you think it was like as a white house communications team watch the president yesterday saying something that totally contradicted everything they had been saying on sanctions now. >> they wonder is there a way for us to destroy a lot of videotape so no one has it anymore? the vice president said what she said. the white house press secretary and secretary of state said what they said. every person speaking on behalf of this administration talked about sanctions through the prism of deterring putin and they were saying it would deter put...