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Lavrov. it is unknown, the extent of putin's wealth, but some estimates put his hidden assets at about $100 billion, so how much real impact would these sanctions specifically have against putin? can you give examples of what kind of impact that would be? >> i think the greatest impact of sanctioning putin personally is psychological. his assets are probably very well hidden and i would suggest that there are probably none we have access to in the united states of america but i think the simple fact that we very rarely sanction heads of state is very meaningful and this is a man who is committ...

Countries, their men continuing to fight. we're trying as hard as we can to bring this to an end as quickly as we can, but this may still go on for a while. >> you point out accurately the sanctions are unprecedented. they're stronger than they've ever been, but the u.s. still has not moved as quickly as the eu has in sanctions against the political elite. the duma, the national security, the cabinet, the russian oligarchs. the u.s. has not banned imports of russian oil, the u.s. has not ruled out trade sanctions. we're still working with the russians on the iran deal. why not do everything we...

It is going to be so painful, sanctions which cause nord stream 2 but personal sanctions are pretty funny, against myself and other mps, against the government. if we are talking about security, the state of duma recognises donetsk and the luhansk people's republic and now these republics are under our protection but no russian military in the donbas right now. putin has a right to invade dom bess, -- 13 —— 13 has a right to invade donbas,

And purpose that is a huge benefit. so the challenge is how do we thread that needle of helping the ukrainians, because this violence is horrific and it needs to stop. how do we thread that needle of helping them while avoiding escalation? there looking to historyin is a very good move and certainly also working very closely with our allies is blinken is doing is a good move because we need to do everything we can to help the ukrainians. >> big picture here, cnn and bbc have halted broadcasting russia after the duma passed the law making publishing so-called fake news punishable by up to 15 ye...

The sanctions are unprecedented. they are. they're stronger than they've ever been. but the u. stichlt has not moved as quickly as the eu has on sanctions against the russian political elite. the duma, the national security council, their families, the top 100 oligarchs. the u.s. has not band imports of russian oil, trade sanctions. we're still working with the russians on the iran deal. why can't do everything we can now? speaker pelosi says she's willing to cut off all imports of russian oil. >> we're adding the the sanctions every day, we're doing it in coordinations. if there's a loophole ...