businesses in the russian federation. i think we have hundreds of businesses that have decided to stop there are still hundreds who can make the decision to leave. i think the state sponsor of terrorism tool would help them make that decision. let me get your thoughts, jason, on negotiations here for a moment. as i was saying, i was questioning whether the u.s. is doing enough to encourage negotiations. but the truth of the matter is that vladimir putin does not seem willing or capable of negotiating at this point. and perhaps he is just going through the motions. do you think that it is even possible that vladimir putin would be willing to negotiate at this point? and more importantly, it does he need to negotiate with ukraine or does he need to meet hugo shea with the u.s. about how he gets not just himself and his cronies or all of dark s, but russia, back into the world financial system. well, he has not been serious to this point. one question is whether or not there are tools
federation. i think we have hundreds of businesses that have decided to stop there are still hundreds who can make the decision to leave. i think the state sponsor of terrorism tool would help them make that decision. let me get your thoughts, jason, on negotiations here for a moment. as i was saying, i was questioning whether the u.s. is doing enough to encourage negotiations. but the truth of the matter is that vladimir putin does not seem willing or capable of negotiating at this point. and perhaps he is just going through the motions. do you think that it is even possible that vladimir putin would be willing to negotiate at this point? and more importantly, it does he need to negotiate with ukraine or does he need to meet hugo shea with the u.s. about how he gets not just himself and his cronies or all of dark s, but russia, back into the world financial system. well, he has not been serious to this point. one question is whether or not there are tools in the arsenal,
their economy sectors. it would be the energy sector, which is the main pocket for putin. we saw sanctions on all of dark s today, but for some reason, roman abramovich, who is a very close ally to putin, who owns chelsea football club and has a lot of companies here in the united states. he has three steel companies in the united states. he s not on the sanction list. so we keep begging the world to be stronger in their reaction. but unfortunately, so far, we see that everybody s trying to protect their economies that are worth more than ukrainian lives. alexandra, perhaps joe biden, the president is watching. what is your message to him? please, support ukrainian children, women who are dying right now, thousands of them i directional. we need a no fly zone just to
after a passport must arrive to her. the prime minister has arrived in the gulf, for the first leg of the visit, after saudi arabia executed 15 people in a single day. zelenskyy has described talks with russia as more realistic, but says they need more time, as ukrainian cities come under heavy bombardment. avy bombardment. let s take you through the morning s front pages, start with i, the front pages, putin turns to blend see. the newspaper looking at russia s latest innovation tactics. the financial times, leading with the uk in the eu, leveling sanctions about the russian military and hundreds more all of dark s. the metro, focuses on the implications that those sanctions will have on access to bling, and to luxury.
the reason for coming to work is to chase that money, and to change the crime underneath the line. as the irs takes a central role in ensuring sanctions on all of dark s. it wants to add agents to a 3000 person investigation unit. why target the wealthiest man in putin s inner circle? that s my next guest putting it, the hope to a disgruntled elite class might be pressured into the war. and lanett joins me now. thank you for being with us. for those who do not know, explain what a russian oligarch is, and the forms that their ties to putin can take. so russian oligarchic is a phenomenon that came from the privatization of private companies at the end of the ussr. so soviet union is over, all these public companies have to become more capitalist. so they were these auctions that were help to make sure that private assistance could get a piece of what was all the