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300 members of russia's lower parliament, the duma. >> sanctions never deter. >> reporter: the president admitted the crippling international sanctions imposed so far may be wrecking russia's economy, but they haven't forced put toin change course, yet. >> we will sustain what we're doing, not just next month, the following month, but for the remearnd of this entire year. that's what will stop him. >> reporter: president biden heads closer to the invasion zone tomorrow with a visit to warsaw, poland, just over 100 miles from the ukrainian border. there he will meet with refugees and with polan...

Sanctions of more than 400 individuals and entities aligned with -- in alignment with the european union. more than 300 members of the duma, oligarchs and russian defense companies that fuel the russian war machine. in addition to the 100,000 u.s. forces now stationed in europe to defend nato territory, nato established as you already know four new battle groups in romania, hungary, bulgaria and slovakia to reinforce the eastern front. putin was banking on nato being split. my early conversation with him in december and early january was clear to me he did not think we could sustain this cohes...

His actions have to match his words. last week he said if vladmir putin uses chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, that the united states would respond in kind, meaning they would use equal force, at least that's the definition of responding in kind. that is what worries people, is that we don't really node, when they say they're going to be consequences the white house hasn't laid out those consequences. >> well sometimes it is best not to lay out exactly what you're going to do but i do think we have to do more to get vladmir putin's attention. look, destroying his economy, having the ruble be ...

Announce tougher sanctions against russia, you suggested in the past they're not necessarily a magic bullet. but will these sanctions really change putin and the russian behavior, what they're doing to the ukrainian people? >> well, this newest sanctions to go after people in the duma, no, that's just show. that's essentially meaningless. the economic sanctions have had weight, but sanctions tend to be slow moving, particularly since russia is making hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars every day by exporting gas among other places to europe. plus you got a lot of countries in the worl...

The donbas region. what's your reaction to that? how do you see the contours of this negotiation shaping up? >> i think both sides are going to be staking out pretty hardline positions. putin has already annexed crimea, voted on by the duma. in his view it's an inassailable portion. the donbas, he's created these two little faux republics, luhansk and donetsk. and so they're going to take out hard positions. that's what negotiation is. that's where it's beginning and better to be talking than to be fighting.