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>> think mafia, where everybody kisses the ring of the boss and he makes lots and lots of money. by sanctioning them, we are putting pressure on all of putin's ruling kleptocracy. >> reporter: in 2017, one estimate put putin's own worth at over $200 billion. and tonight, the russian ruble has lost nearly half of its value. one ruble now worth a little less than one cent on the dollar. >> and james joins us now from moscow again tonight. and james, you have been reporting here for several days now on this tv station critical of the russian government, that's very rare, obviously, inside russia....

To south korea, and it would be devastating -- >> you don't think that ratchets it up? >> it makes it real to the chinese. we're running out of options here. for 25 years, we've been begging the chinese to help us with north korea. we've been cutting off food. we've been giving them food. sanctioning them, relieving sanctions, and everything we do doesn't work. the north koreans believe in spite of all these sanctions the best bet for them is to get a nuclear weapon and missile to hit america. donald trump has said rightly so we're not going to live that way as americans. i'm not going to let ...