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The floor that day, used particular language as you recall, john, to suggest that there was essentially two different sets and this is what was going to be looked at and this was legitimate, it was far more nefarious and thought out and strategic than we even believed. so it is right that in a country where we have laws against trying to interfere with elections, laws against fraudulent activity, at the doj would look at this issue. can i ask you, the fact that the deputy attorney general lisa monaco said this to evan perez in this terrific interview, this was something that cnn broke, the fact that she said it doesn t seem accidental. it seems she wouldn t have answered the question unless she wanted that information out there, the whole doj did. why would they want this public at this point? well, think about the idea of how the public is viewing the what perceives as the contemplative action of the department of justice. questions about the length of the investigation, is anyt ....
In the u.s. government but i have to question if people truly understand the cultural makeup of ukraine. they re not welcoming people with cookies and milk. as i walk down the street, you see people who are at the ready to fight off russia. brand russia does not exist here anymore. it is a brand that will never have any real value. it is worthless, and the hatred that is built up here is so intense that it is going to build up a better resistance than most people expect. here s another way to cap it off. kyiv should have fallen by now if those estimates that were leveed by the u.s., that we re told by the u.s. intelligence agencies were really true. this city was supposed to have fallen on day one. it did not happen. doesn t look like it s going to fall anytime soon. yeah, and look, we ve seen the reporting saying that, you know, russia was perhaps ill-prepared for some of the resistance that the ukrainian people put up with, certainly ....
Have the same spillover effects as the swift sanction. are there other sanctions, regimes administration is looking to dip into? the globe sanctions that in theory could be leveed against russia and leaders. is the u.s. looking to that? are there other measures that could stop him because if as our reporters said putin feels impervious to sanctions isn t moved by them, doesn t care, then what? there is no such thing as sanctions proof economy. one major thrust we can deploy is export controls and export controls are like financial sanctions. they both deny something to russia that it desperately needs and can t replace from anywhere else. export controls are focused on critical technology. think about the technology of our time, semi conductors, robotics, the west and our ....
They far out number in terms of resources, the ukrainian people. we should not under estimate putin s ability to reek havoc on the people of ukraine with as we ve seen, weapons that are arguably weapons of destruction that are not allowed to be leveed on civilians. so please don t under estimate him. please let s not take joy in the fact that he s seemingly stalled out because all it takes is a good day and we have to continue to have strong days, the ukrainian people and allies. absolutely. in our own experience, we know as a far superior military we have insurgency is a hell of a thing and you can t always out last that. let s talk about some i know you-all are getting classified briefings, the house and senate. don t disclose anything in that. can you give us a sense of, you know, so far the u.s. intelligence community is quite spot on about what they ve seen coming. is there a sense you re getting ....
And ferocity of the ukrainian army and itself people. not welcomed as liberators as he said they would be. he has undermined and miscalculated the resolve of nato and the west in terms of the overwhelming sanctions that have been leveed in a multilateral way, which the time and ferocity of them is more than i ve seen in 30 years of foreign policy work. he said he didn t want troops along his border from nato and the united states. he has more troops now than ever before as a result of his actions. his central bank is sanctioned. the ruble is virtually worthless. they ll probably go into default. so at the end of the day, these are the consequences that he has wrought. but at the same time, the ukrainian people have are facing enormous consequences in the indiscriminate shelling of civilian infrastructure, ....