Sanctions Wise News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

economists say this one should not hurt the economy. joining me now is cnbc senior analyst, congressional continue, julie tsirkin, and nbc news white house correspondent, al -- allie raffa. i want to read a few notable things. jason fuhrman, the former deputy director of obama's national council says the fed will be happy. the economy needs cooling off and this takes pressure off interest rates in accomplishing cooling off. a jpmorgan chase analyst says the agreement could function as the equivalent of a quarter point increase in interest rates in terms of helping to restrain inflati...

Ago. ag so congressman, what's your assessment of how the administration has managed this disaster? i would ask for a fact check on those statements because wes know for a fact the administration has not been preparing for months and months. vladimir putin started to buildt up on the border ukraine almost a year ago now and we did very little preemptively and we struggled when russia didti invade ukraine with sanctions. and in fact,on it wasn't until tonight that president biden signed the bill that we passed out of congress yesterday to ban russian oil and gas imports. we're still putting san...

It carrot or stick, like secondary sanctions on china? >> look, the white house is talking to the chinese right now and trying to convince them not to help the russians. so, look, i think a lot of this stuff has to be done private live but i think the chinese want to continue to be a real player and have a good relationship with the united states. i think we need to say very clearly, if you enable the russians, this is going to jeopardize u.s.-chinese relations. >> what do we still have in our back pocket sanctions-wise here in terms of additional ways to put pressure on russia beyond the mili...