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Piece and how that could be a penalty to russia, very significant this morning. >> talk to me, david, about that economic piece and germany's decision to suspend the nord stream pipeline and how it fits into all of this. do you see any way in which escalating sanctions could still have an impact on vladimir putin? >> gas -- you know, the energy sector is the driver of the russian economy. the russian economy is about a third of the size of california's economy. it's quite small. so limiting those gam sales to europe would have a tremendous impact. the other very, very powerful sanction would b...