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Always going to get -- i am not going to be critical of any of you is always going front page, always going to be the top of the news. let's put it in perspective. 95, as high as 98% of the schools in america are open, functioning, and capable of doing the job. how about jan epstein, bloomberg. >> mr. president, thank you. your top foreign policy advisers warned russia is now ready to attack ukraine but there is still little unit what a sanctions package would look like. if american allies can't agree on a sanctions package hasn't the u.s. and the west lost nearly all of its leverage over vlad...

Sanctions aren't really instituted, right? i mean, if you have a sanctions package, and yet everybody else doesn't believe that that affects them, and they have complete negotiations and exchange with that country, sanctions don't really work. the question, i think, michael, is, you know, europe has a lot at stake, as far as receiving from russia, you know, natural gas and oil. it's tough for them to make a change. >> absolutely. there's rarely unanimity around the world on how to treat different regimes, so you're absolutely right about sanctions being hard to enforce across the board. and in...

Sanctioning vladimir putin have and what would that look like? >> important to know broadly, we have said it will be far beyond any sanctions package, far beyond what was done in 2014, and that includes impacting business and economic interests of president putin and the leadership of the russian government. and while it has been our policy that we are not going to take options off the table from here and we haven't, we also have not detailed what isn't in an initial package, that does not mean everything out there that's being talked about is not in an initial package. >> thank you. >> thank ...

Maria: my next guest is working on that bipartisan sanctions package, wyoming senator john barrasso is here, the third ranking member in the senate and the ranking member on the senate energy committee. senator, it's great to see you this morning. thanks so much for being here. >> great to be with you, maria. maria: can you walk us through what sanctions package looks like that you and your colleagues are working on on a bipartisan levelsome when would you expect this to come to the senate floor for a vote? >> yes, maria. we need to sanction russia before an invasion, not aftera wars. and here...

Profits. and one final point, guys, free speech, whatever happened to free speech. >> sandra: a topic of discussion at dinner tables everywhere. ashley, thank you. rich. >> rich: back now to one of the top stories, moscow now accusing the u.s. of provoking war. as president biden warns of swift and severe consequences if russia invades ukraine. general keith kellogg. let's get to the situation here, according to the white house, 5,000 troops in belarus, more than 100,000 troops in russia on ukraine's border, the white house is preparing a sanctions package for russian elite. what happens next?...