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The world war ii victors established the u.n. security council with five permanent members. today those are the u.s., france, the uk, china, and russia. each with veto power as joseph stalin himself insisted. the world has changed but the council still remains largely as it was 77 years ago. that is, russia has the power to veto any resolution it opposes. it's like giving a senator on the floor a veto over any legislation without any overriding? >> exactly. what we're seeing when there is a fundamentally disagreement among the permanent members, nothing happens. >> reporter: suggestions to ref...

Council with five permanent members. today those are the u.s., france, the uk, china, and russia. each with veto power as josef stalin himself insisted. the world has changed, but the council still remains largely as it was 77 years ago, that is, russia has the power to veto any resolution it opposes. >> it's like giving a senator on the floor a veto over any legislation without any overrides. >> exactly. and what we're seeing is when there's a fundamental disagreement among the permanent members, nothing happens. >> reporter: suggestions to reform the council by adding more permanent members ...

Here, instead resulted in what antony blinken himself, the secretary of state called a clearer path ahead. that does not mean that a solution is within grasp or within sight. i would say, far from it. it is still hard to conceive of how some kind of compromise or understanding can be made without one side or the other being forced to climb down on very -- in the case of russia, maximalist demands, that it has made loudly, publicly, and repeatedly. and in the case of the u.s., demands that it's called non-starters. so difficult to see how this situation could resolve itself, but significant tha...

Russia gave us this demands they knew were non-starters to begin with. i think a lot of the negotiations and the pdiplomati initiate ifrs were not general wu win from the start. >> it they have a lot of money tied up in the west. if you start cutting off their access, that could be very painful. the kremlin said today that u.s. sanctions would not be painful. they would be something like politically disruptive. is that true? or would sanctions hurt them the most? >> so i do think sanctions would hurt. we have the ability to inflict damage on the russian economy. can they survive it? probably. ...

In face-to-face diplomacy. so it's an opportunity to do exactly that. >> reporter: hallie, this comes as you said at the top of your show, that president zelenskyy is going to address congress tomorrow. he's going to ask for the very things that president biden has said are non-starters, a no-fly zone, those polish migs to send over. but his message will undoubtedly be emotional as it was today to the canadian parliament. that is going to only ramp up the pressure on president biden. now, also today, one other development i want to tell you about which is that russia announced sanctions agains...