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Senior military officers and other top level officials will be believed to be responsible for the alleged war crimes in bucha will also hit the sanctions list. it s a big raft of sanctions, but there s a lot of talk needed to get it over the line. nic, pope francis, he spoke with the leaders of the russian orthodox church. he told him to not become putin s altar boy. we also know, according to sources that the leader of the russian orthodox church is included in the eu s latest sanctions proposal. why include that figure? reporter: yeah, and there s been heavy pushback from the leadership of the russian orthodox church today as well on both those accounts. the reason being that the perception is and the words of the russian orthodox patriarch have been supportive of president putin, have been supportive of the war, and the pope, like other religious leaders around the world, doesn t mean that another religious leader should be ....
The return of isis and until they and their proxies go back to where they were before. that s an interesting point. the sanctions don t take. it s not just cease fire and stop. you want them out. well, we want them out. and under this agreement and let s make it clear, the syrian kurds did not agree to allowing turkey to come 20 miles into the syrian kurdish home area. right. and this is never going to work. that s why we re going to continue to push forward. this is a recipe for reigniting isis in that area and around the world. and so we re going full steam ahead with the sanctions proposal. you mentioned senator lindsey graham cosponsoring this with you. he has been complimentary of the cease fire what they say is a cease fire in the public statements. up until this point we know he is a staunch ally of the president do you trust graham ....
U.s. diplomats will have to leave. this in retaliation to the sanctions proposal that the president of the united states has yet to sign, but is there any response from the white house thus far on this latest retaliatory move from russia? reporter: fred, no response so far. also i have been checking, of course, the president s twitter feed, which i did just a moment ago, and we haven t seen a response there either. but i would imagine we ll get one at some point. and i should mention the president did wake up early this morning once again to send out that tweet in the 7:00 a.m. hour and then went to the trump national golf club in sterling, virginia, and, fred, that makes the 47th day that he has spent time at at property that bears his name. he has visited one of his golf properties 43 times as president, and we just learned that they have departed that golf club, and so perhaps he ll come back here, and we may here more response to that news out ....
We re not just going to be appeasers. we re not going to stand by and let them use force to take over someone s sovereign territory. so doing as much as we can, as fast as we can, particularly in the sanctions area, so that really starts to bite and hurt and they pay a price for it, i think, is the thing we need to get going on. what do you think the response from the white house will be on your sanctions proposal? well, i hope it s satisfactory. this is an export agency that putin set up himself 14 years ago when he took over. it s to export military arms to other nations. some of teahese are bad actors like syria. this imposes voluntary efforts on our neighbors and allies to also join with us. hitting russia in the pocketbook, hitting their economy, hitting the two areas, oil and gas, energy exports as well as military sales exports, can have a devastating effect on their economy. i think that s what we need to ....