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Duma. do you see that as a game changer? >> in a word, no. these are not people who have significant power, they don't have access to power. i'm not, per se, against it. these are symbolic sanctions not serious ones. >> and they already sanctioned some of the duma members. this would just expand the list and we aren't seeing resignations in the face of these personal sanctions at this point. what do you make of the reporting, though, from russia state media that putin's special representative on the environment has quit his post? my understanding is this guy was an early putin supporter. they ...

That's what will stop him. >> reporter: and to the president's point there, hallie, the white house announcing today a whole new raft of sanctions that they hope will turn up the pressure even more, particularly over time, including slapping sanctions on more than 300 members of the duma, the russian parliament, dozens of russian defense companies, and the g7 also working with the u.s. to crack down on the ability of russia's central bank to use its gold reserves to prop up the currency as russia today opened its stock market under limited capacity for the first time since this war started. bu...

>> reporter: well, fortunate tow summit, wolf, it's going to be a very long day of meetings essentially. the president is going to have a brief meeting with the secretary general ian stoltenberg. they will enter meetings with the north atlantic council that are expected to last two or three hours. there is a lot on the agenda figuring out how to deter president vladimir putin from his onslaught in the ukraine. they will impose increased sanctions on certain members of the duma and of course trying to get nato member allies to keep providing additional weaponry to ukraine in order to fend off t...

Enacting more sanctions and that will go at some of the prominent russian citizens, members of the duma, their legislative branch, defense companies and so forth and also discussions about how to block any work arounds that russia may be able to do with existing sanctions, things involving commodities like gold, trying to block any transfer of gold as an asset that could be converted to the financial strange that putin could use to financial this war. it's looking for ways to build a greater interconnection of the sanctions that have been enacted, not only by the united states but other countr...

Graves we've seen and the horror images we've seen on the television. i think it would be very difficult for him to see the donbas, for him to cede crimea in its entirety. he could talk about no nuclear missiles in his country. i agree with your analysts. putin's strategy is to divide east ukraine versus west with the dnipro river down the middle and putin wants the two donbas independent separatist countries as he calls them and his duma calls them. he wants mariupol to control the black sea. >> mike mccaul of texas, thank you so much for your thoughts. up next, the inconceivable toll of th...