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Responding to how the eu is now working on its third sanction package in one week and she was talking today about targeting russia's ability to fund its military action in ukraine and she was saying that there is now an agreement among all european union member states, remember, some of them are lagging on the idea of ejecting russia from swift, the international financial transaction network, particularly italy, germany, hungary, these are countries with close ties with russia. business ties and relying on gas supplies but everybody, said ursula, is agreed to target russia's banks through swi...

Sanctions. we have remained to a open diplomatic path to resolution. however, if russia takes aggressive action against ukraine, we are prepared to implement. to do that work in a unified way with our allies around the world. >> reporter: the u.s. have been working with allies for several weeks now crafting that sanction package. one thing president zelensky pointed to today, he wants to see an actual list of what these sanctions would look like before an invasion. that's something the white house has been hesitant to do and set to act as a deterrent. even as the u.s. is warning an invasion co...

>> that's not going to work. the sanctions are finally starting to bite. the u.s. did -- and the west did a great job putting a sanction package into place and everyone is panicking in moscow. i got a lot of messages this morning, alex, from ordinary russians who are may age, and they're going to armenia, of all places. they want to get out of moscow. the interest rates doubled overnight. ordinary people feel like pariahs. they can't travel anymore and they don't want to live like they're in the soviet union so i think the pressure needs to stay on, and i wouldn't touch the sanctions package u...

Russia claims as its own. this leads us to the former soviet states in nato and the baltic areas, latvia, estonia, lithuania. appear in and rush it as state. and then putin might have his sights set on three nato nations, which means what, war with the united states because at that nato agreement, the sanction package yesterday to leak in russia so that doesn't happen but time will only tell if that strategy will work. >> todd: we have 30 days before this kicks in, that is questionable. >> obviously we have been focusing in this region but it does not just the situation in this region but glob...

Fair to say. but look, i think what's being lost here is, you know, gop messaging is that the sanctions package that biden is working with, is the toughest sanctions package that we have seen on washer ever, right? so for the democrats, you know, this is a huge win. you know, this actions we've seen on oil and gas are part of this massive package that we've seen biden rollout in recent weeks, taking it step-by-step, as russia continues to encroach on ukraine, biden has levied even more sanctions time and time again. and i don't think this is the end of the road in terms of the sanctions packag...