AS RUSSIA HAS LAUNCHED A FULL SCALE INVASION INTO UKRAINE. PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO FLEE UKRAINE SPARKING CHAOS LARGE TRAFFIC JAMS WITHIN THE COUNTRY U.S. TROOPS IN POLAND NOW REPORTED HEADED TO BORDER TO HELP AS AMERICANS OTHER NATIONALS TRY TO ESCAPE JOINING ME BILL BROWDER KNOWS RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT PUT QUITE WELL THANKS VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE YOUR REACTION WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE OVERNIGHT.
I THINK THIS IS THE WORST POSSIBLE SCENARIO WE COULD HAVE IMAGINED, YOU KNOW EVERYBODY WAS HOPING PRAYING THAT PUTIN WAS BLUFFING THAT THIS WAS WAY TO GET CONCESSIONS, THE FACT THAT HE HAS INVADE A FOREIGN COUNTRY KILLED INNOCENT CIVILIANS, REDRAWN MAP VIOLATED SOVEREIGNTY OF UKRAINE, IS A TOTAL GAME-CHANGER AS FAR AS INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY IS CONCERNED. >> YEAH, I I MEAN PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID THAT HE IS GOING TO BE ANNOUNCING NEW SANCTIONS OBJECT RUSSIA WHAT HE ADDRESSES THE COUNTRY LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
SO FAR, ANYTHING THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS SAID HAS BEEN WEAK, THEY HAVE DONE EXECUTIVE ORDER, PUTTING SANCTIONS ON TWO KREMLIN BACKED BANKS, BUT THOSE BANKS WERE ALREADY SANCTIONED FROM CRIMEA INVASION IN 2014, RUSSIAN ELITES ALSO FACING SANCTIONS FROM OLIGARCHS THE COMPANY BEHIND NORD STREAM 2 PIPELINE OF COURSE CERTIFICATION OF THE PIPELINE WAS NOT EXPECTED UNTIL THE SUMMER SO THAT COULD CHANGE AS WELL, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE FROM BIDEN THIS AFTERNOON? >> SO, WITH A WE NEED TO DO RIGHT NOW, I SAY WE I MEAN UNITED STATES, UK EU, CANADA AUSTRALIA, IS IMPOSE REAL DEVASTATING COSTS TO VVP VICE PRESIDENT FOR DOING WHAT HE HAS DONE WHAT DO I MAINTAIN BY DEVASTATING COSTS WE NEED TO GO AFTER HIS O MONEY VLADIMIR PUTIN’S MONEY THE WAY TO GO AFTER HIS MONEY GO AFTER 50 OR SO OLIGARCHS WHO HOLD HIS MONEY IN WEST FREEZE THAT MONEY AT THIS POINT IT JUSTIFIES CUTTING RUSSIA OFF FROM THE SWIFT INTERNATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM WE DID WITH IRAN PUT THEM TO STONE AGES, ULTIMATELY FORCED THEM BACK TO OR HE GOTING TABLE HAS TO BE DONE VLADIMIR PUTIN RIGHT NOW IF WE DO NOT FORCE ECONOMIC COSTS NEXT STOP NATO KINZ GOING TO CHALLENGE TO SEE WHETHER WE STAND UP OR NATO ALLIES WE NEED TO SHOW HIM WELL BEFORE THAT THERE IS REAL PUNISHMENT COMING FROM WHAT HE HAS DONE.
MARIA: WELL, A GREAT POINT, MARSHA BLACKBURN THIS SENATOR FROM SENITY MADE SAME POINT WITH SWIFT I AM WITH CHRISTIAN WHITON FORMER OFFICIAL AT STATE DEPARTMENT CHRISTIAN WEIGH IN HERE IN TERMS OF WHAT WE MIGHT HERE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION, WHETHER OR NOT, THESE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS THAT TALKED ABOUT WILL BE ENOUGH TO STOP PUTIN?
WELL I DON’T THINK BIDEN IS GOING TO DO THAT WITH SWIFT WE TALKED EARLIER JERNL COUNTRY STREEL HESITANCE TO DO. >>OR ALLIES COLLUDED WITH IRAN TO TRY A WORK AROUND TO STRONG U.S.
SANCTIONS ON IRAN HOW IS EUROPE GOING TO BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA IF TAKEN OUT OF SWIFT MAYBE LA SEPARATE MECHANISM DOESN’T REQUIRE GOLD, IN SUITCASE ON PLANES SENDSING TO RUSSIA ARE WE WILLING TO DEAL WITH CONSEQUENCES OF RUSSIA AND CHINA, IRAN CREATING SOME ALTERNATIVES, CREATING ALTERNATIVE TO DOLLAR DENOMINATED INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IF WE KICK RUSSIA OUT OF BANKING SYSTEM THAT IS WHAT BIDEN IS DEALING WITH THEY’VE BEEN WEAK, I THINK WE HAVE TO ASK ABOUT DOWNSTREAM CONSEQUENCES OF THIS, MIGHT INCLUDE A VERY WEAK DEAL WITH IRAN, SOMETHING THAT LETS IRAN GET A NUCLEAR CAPABILITY ESSENTIALLY ALL TOOLS TO GET THAT, IRRAN CANYON OIL BACK ON TO MARKET.
EXTRAORDINARY WHAT THIS PRESIDENT HAS ALLOWED.
OUR ADVERSARIES TO DO. HE HAS IN FACT ENRICHED OUR ADVERSARIES AND WILL DO SO, WITH AN IRAN DEAL, HAS ALREADY ENRICHED CHINA AND, OF COURSE, HAS NOT BEEN TOUGH ENOUGH ON RUSSIA ALL THE WHILE AMERICANS ARE GETTING POORER WITH INFLATION EATINGING INTO THEIR DISPOSABLE INCOME BILL YOU KNOW THIS GOVERNMENT OF RUSH WELL, THEY TRIED TO CHOKE YOU OUT OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM SO MANY YEARS AGO. YOUR THOUGHTS ON WHERE THIS GOES NEXT DO YOU THINK PUTIN WILL IN FACT TRY TO ATTACK IT IN A COUNTRY LAUNCH AMERICA INTO THIS WAR? >> PUTIN HAS CROSSED THE RUBICON BY INVADING UKRAINE, FULL SCALE MILITARY INVASION, CROSSED OVER INTO AREA THAT NOBODY EVER EXPECTED WANTED OR KNOWS WHAT TO DO WITH NOW HE IS ON A ROLL. HE IS NOW GOING TO TEST OUT, EVERY RESOLVE FROM US SEE WHERE WE STAND, AND I THINK QUITE LIKELY THAT THE NEXT STOP AFTER UKRAINE IS SOME NATO COUNTRY TO SEE WHETHER WE ALL ARE ONE FOR ALL FOR ONE, ONE FOR ALL THE NATO PROMISE, HE WANTS TO SEE WHETHER THAT IS REAL OR NOT, BECAUSE VLADIMIR PUTIN IF HE CANING IF HE CAN HE CAN SPLIT UP NATO, THEN HE CAN BASICALLY DO WHATEVER HE WANTS.
YOU SAID IN THE PAST — IS THE RICH HE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD OR ONE OF THE RICHEST IN THE WORLD ALREADY. >> HE IS SPENT 0 YEARS PRIMARILY USING PRESIDENCY TO STEAL FROM RUSSIAN PEOPLE, FIVE YEARS AGO I TESTIFIED TO THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HE IS WORTH 00 BILLION DOLLARS I AM SURE NUMBER A LOT HIGHER THAN THAT RIGHT NOW ONE THING WE CAN DO WITHOUT A DROP OF AMERICAN BLOOD, IS TO FREEZE HIS ASSETS THE WAY WE CAN FREEZE ASSETS BY GOING AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO WHO WOULD ASSETS, RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS WE KNOW WHO THEY’RE NO THE MYSTERY THOUGH WHO THEY ARE UNITED STATES ALLIES AN FREEZE ASSETS TARGETED, GOES AFTER PUTIN DIRECTLY WILL MAKE HIM A BEAR A PERSONAL PRICE FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE.
MARIA: THERE IS ALSO CAPITAL MARKETS ANGLE, THERE ARE RUSSIAN COMPANIES IN THE INDICES, INDICES ACROSS AMERICA UNWITTING AMERICANS ARE VESTING IN PERHAPS FUNDING EXPANSION RUSSIAN ARM MILITARY WE WILL WATCH ALL THA.
