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Essentially threw away some of the oligarchs is he made a deal with the others if he backed them, finances would be safe. what we need to do is make sure that putin ran on that deep. taking away their money is not just lavrov being the foreign minister and those sanctions, of course, are useless. putin does not have any money in his own name, really. instead, he holds money in the wallets of others. in the wallets of oligarchs and the wallets of political leaders. it's not about any single oligarch. it's about the entire class. and right now is the moment for us to hit all of them. the time fo...

Sanctioning every single week new people in russia, including the russia duma. that's something that members of congress are now thinking about, too. but, craig, this afternoon relevant members of congress in the house and senate are getting classified briefings by the administration and the questions i'm told that congress is going to ask these administration officials is what exactly -- what sort of defense systems are you giving ukraine? how is it impacting and also they want to know what sort of intelligence they're getting about vladimir putin. hopefully we'll hear a little more after thi...

Announcement. biden is expected to unveil the new sanctions on members of the duma while in europe. nic robertson has spent more than three decades covering russia and is in brussels ahead of the president's visit. what does it mean to now target more members of the duma? we've got the oligarchs having been targeted, obviously sanctions imposed more generally. the sanctions on vladimir putin himself. what does it mean to target in this more comprehensive way in this level of government? >> yeah, it broadens the signal to the russian legislator, to the russian people and particularly to preside...

At the beginning of the conflict when the duma recognized the independence of the separatist areas luhansk in ukraine. i think that's what we're going to see more of the european union, president biden and the g7 here in brussels will be perhaps plug in the gaps of the differences they have on all sides, plug in the gaps where russia is finding the loopholes in sanctions and work around at the moment. that was something national security advisor jake sullivan indicated in an interview that he thought that additional sanctions could be coming but they'd also be looking at plugging in those hole...

Important to say that. i think it's important to call out these actions. i frankly think we ought to go ahead and sanction every member of the russian parliament, the duma. we should hold these russian officers accountable for their willingness to bomb clearly civilian targets. i think this needs to be an economic effort, and i commend what we've done. i also commend the american companies who have pulled out of doing business with russia. we need to continue to send additional military aid. one of your earlier guests with the stingers and the javelins, we need to give larger range anti-aircra...