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They suffered ever since the fall of communism and this is their big moment. >> we just heard over the weekend from the leader of the syrian kurds general and this is what he had to say about the united states. quote, you are giving up on us, you are leaving us to be slaughtered. what should the u.s. do at this moment to curb what we have seen? meaning, what will move turkey's hand here? the president said he can destroy the turkish economy. should that be done and will it stop turkey at this point? >> well, probably won't stop turkey but it should be done. you know, you have to exert some deg...

And it doesn't know how to respond to china. what trump just did was he intimidated china into getting their banks to stop all their business with the north koreans. that's a really big deal, because of gift politics. we talk about the money going to the weapons programs. as important is the money going to the regime elements, because that's how kim keeps the loyalty. >> so you're agreeing with ambassador burns that really the big news of this week, put on the bombast aside, the big news of the week are sanctions that actually matter? >> yes. i mean, these are sanctions that could actually sol...

>> what's the united states to do? is what are we supposed to do? >> well, if we were to criminalize dollar transactions with russian financial institutions, european financial institution was have to go along. otherwise they would be subject to american fines. that's what we did with iran and sudan. that's why bmp, french bank, has to pay $9 billion. this a trump card we could play. it would be better if we didn't have to play it. if europe continues to dither, this is something the obama administration should seriously look at. hundreds of christians have made their way out of iraq's secon...

Held by the pro russian rebels. is there going to be any price paid? i mean, if this investigation continues to be botched, will vladmir putin, will the rebels pay any kind of a price? that depends largely on europe and the united states. the united states last week put down some serious sanctions on the russian economy for their aggression in ukraine. europeans did not. europe is not getting angry at what's happened and maybe this will lead them to take the right course. in any case, the administration has the means, if it chooses on its own, to level even more severe sanctions against the ru...

Enabling russia to destabilize another country against international convention. point of fact, if we were to take serious sanctions, for example, if we were to forbid dollar transactions with key financial institutions in russia, the europeans would go along, oil countries would go along and risk facing fines against the united states as the french bank bnp faced for sanctions on iran and the sudan. we are at a point in history where it's true of the powers are rising, but we're also at a point in history where we're seeing two of the rising power's. >> actual list, russia's not a rising powe...