neighbor. he may not accept it. president putin may not accept it, that ukraine is an independent state, but the rest of the world does and, therefore, this is an illegal invasion. you ll hear president biden talk about the financial measures to try to squeeze the russians and make them pay a price for this intervention probably going short, though, of the mother of all sanctions, the phrase that has been used in washington in which they use the full arsenal of economic measures. i think they want to calibrate it so they have something left in their stock if they need it, if putin goes further than he has already. to serve as a deterrent to further action. you ll hear them basically begin the process of cutting russia off from the outside world at least in terms of finances. and there are some real, you know, tools here for the west in terms of banking, in terms of financial accounts in western countries. you wonder, and i don t nope the answer, how much russian businesses and cronies
giving to ukraine. it looks like that must have been figured out now, so that s what we have. dan, let s bring in our pentagon correspondent. what more can you tell us about what will happen now? reporter: i think we need to look at what this announcement is and is not. first off this is poland saying they are ready to provide these mig-29s to send to ramstein air force base in germany, as dan was saying, but they re calling on the u.s. to provide them to back fill with appropriate around craft, fighter jets, with similar capabilities. everyone is talking about the f-16s. just because poland made this announcement does not mean the u.s. has some number of f-16s sitting around they can immediately provide to poland. that s the first hang-up. why would poland fly these aircraft from poland, right next door in ukraine, to germany to ramstein and turn them over to the united states to provide ukraine? officials i m talking to don t
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they didn t say one way another but they had access to every document they wanted. ywe don t know they did. yes, they did. how do you know? according to the white house lawyers, they were given every document. they didn t have to go through the taxes. reporter: did mueller get the taxes? i believe you believe. you don t nope whether he had the taxes, true or false? i believe that mueller looked at every financial you don t know he had access to the taxes he had the access to the taxes. if he d turn these over, we wouldn t even be having the conversation. that s not true. the democrat strategy is to beat him on scanned and and personal impropriety. they want to find the next phony story. everybody else puts out their
act. the people in puerto rico, 3.5 million americans right now, are suffering and many of them want the elimination, a waiver of what s called the jones act. the president said that s not happening. > right, exactly. for people who don t nope what it is, it essentially is shipping restrictions at u.s. ports that essentially says that only ships that are owned, operated by americans can essentially go from port to port delivering aid. has to have an american flag. exactly. but what people in puerto rico, members on capitol hill are calling for is for that to be waived so that even foreign vessels could come in and bring in supplies. they re saying they want it expedited. they believe that they will be able to get access cheaper supplies if this is waived. the jones act is waived. department of homeland security today telling us they are reviewing the request from members in congress. they haven t made a decision yet. they simply say their hands are tied. here s why. the only way th