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>> charles: i agree. great seeing you. thanks. >> thanks, charles. >> charles: so there a way states can provide immediate relief from inflation? one lawmaker says yes by wiping out something that all consumers pay each and every day. he'll explain. is it time to hit russia with sanctions before they invade ukraine? not after. so far president joe biden not saying that. why the top senate republican is. jim risch is with us next. for investors who can navigate this landscape, leveraging gold, a strategic and sustainable asset... the path is gilded with the potential for rich returns.

Reinvasion since russia did that already and in the past with crimea and with regular forces in eastern ukraine. at the same time he wants to create a semblance of calm as relates to his economy which is a challenge for him as well. so i understand that. there's a reason president biden has sent more aid to ukraine, military aid, lethal aid since 2014, $650 million. it's because you have 130,000 russian troops there surrounding three different parts of russia's borders, and you have to take seriously that the potential for an invasion is real. it's getting the ukrainians to be prepared and giv...

And obviously the ukrainians are no match, but they can make it very expensive for this casualty-wise with the right kind of weaponry. we're getting some of that to them now. the javelin anti-tank weapons and some other classified materials. >> charles: to that point, senator, maybe two hours ago, boris johnson saying that putin would face ferocious ukrainian resistance and many russian mothers sons won't be coming home. again, the big we for the audience, our audience right now, do we ever get lured into this militarily? will any american mothers have to worry about this? >> i really don't th...

More. and now the president of croatia said he would withdraw his nato troops if the nato crisis escalating saying that effectively they want no part of it. president biden said he may put direct sanctions on vladimir putin. could some kind of sanctions be happening right. senator jim risch is here with us. what actions if you were in charge of this and could get it done now, what sort of sanctions would you apply at this moment? >> i'd start first with nord stream 2 immediately. we've tried to do that. the congress was in favor of doing that until biden convinced his party that they shouldn't...

>> well, senator risch and i have been working with our staffs and colleagues, a bipartisan coalition both on the foreign relations committee and members off of the committee in an intensive effort over the last week. i would describe it as though we are on the 1 yard line and hopefully we can conclude successfully. what there is no doubt is that there's an incredible bipartisan resolve for support of ukraine and incredibly strong bipartisan resolve to have severe consequences for russia if it invades ukraine, and in some cases for what it has already done. so what i would say is what we are d...