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Leaving ukraine,. again at a standstill, just seems like thousands upon thousands of residents are trying to get out of that city, fleeing presumably west, and away from russian troops. joining me now is nbc correspondent at the capitol. julie, a lot of congressmen and women have been up all night, so far, at least, they've been tweeting about what they have been seeing and what they know, marco rubio comes to mind tweeting a lot of intelligence about the operation in ukraine. what is the reaction? >> well they've been tweeting all night because they aren't in this building, congress both the ...

I think the sanctions package that has had almost immediate effect in some respects with the ruble crashing. russian blocked from the international financial system. all the state banks are cut off. of course, we're seeing without sanctions the american and european companies are making a quick exodus from the russian market. i think the big challenge for us and for the ukrainians, too, is to get more information to the general public and russia. those that watch state tv are not yet enaware of the scope of the russian operation, the fact that they're actively bombing one of everybody's favori...

Russians as well. at the same time, we have the biggest sanctions package that i can remember, with devastating consequences in terms of the rubble, falling to a record low. and the russian central bank itself has been subject to sanctions, doubling interest rates, and putting the squeeze on putin. what he's doing now is responding to tactics, and what we've gotten in line is that one -- none of the major cities have fallen. now we need to go with our allies to make sure that putin fails with ukraine, and it takes him time, we're talking months about years. -- stamina, because this is not gonn...

Shutting off the pipeline. i think when we return to congress next week, we are all in our states this week, you will see a congressional resolve on sanctions. we are resolved on the sanctions package, but it should contain. there was disagreement about what should trigger it. democrats said, don't initiate sanctions unless you can tell there's certain invasion. republicans wanted to initiate sanctions before an invasion. but that an invasion would trigger punishing sanctions and the u.s. should work together with our allies to make sure we are all on the same page, that's all decided upon. i ...

Material. there is criticism here that the sanctions package and the actions the us has taken have not been strong enough, you can probably here beside me here a pro—ukrainian demonstration where they are demanding personal sanctions on vitamin are prudent, which the us is not instituting at the end closing ukrainian airspace in order to try and defend the country against attack such a coming at the moment. there is criticism from republican politicians as well. the plan from the white house has always been pretty clear which was to gradually increase economic sanctions as russian aggression...