security. but the vast majority of americans i ve heard from or spoken up in hearings, i just came from a several long hour hour with secretary blinken and secretary austin, i m not hearing a lot of voices that are saying from the republican caucus we shouldn t be reinforcing our allies in europe. in fact, it s a weird divide. you have a small group saying one thing and then you have others who say we haven t been aggressive enough, right? who are actually seeing sanctions already. marco rubio is arguably probably in that category. is there a chance we level sanctions before putin does something in ukraine? chuck, what i think we will end up taking up and passing through the foreign relations committee will be a robust package of sanctions that chairman menendez has put together, he and senator risch are working together on. with another aggression on ukraine in the recent months to
risch bill? it s so interesting, the twists and turns on sanctions, it seems like senator risch and senator menendez the chair of the foreign relations committee are working together. and the big disagreement has always been important to implement sanctions before a russia invasion. republicans wanted that. democrats didn t. particularly the white house. and that s really where this fell apart. yesterday, they had kind of a strong statement from senate leadership. i m not quite sure that sends, you know, a unified front to russia to say that the u.s. is going to be strongly together on this. then you saw republicans go their own with senator risch who says, hey, if russia does invade ukraine, you re going to see other members jump on my bill. it seemed like the leadership is trying to do something to say we are doing something. but at the same time, the republicans don t want to do that, they want sanctions sooner than later. several noted a, quote,
international banking system and doesn t target russia s ability to produce or sell gas. without those two things, is it strong enough? no, it is not strong enough and this is one of the reasons that senator risch, who is the ranking republican at foreign relations, came up with a net act, which of course would put these sanctions that are needed in place. sanctions work. you have to go after the oligarchs. you have to go after the banks, you have to go after these separate russian entities and put these sanctions in place. jacqui: and clearly there hasn t been enough support among democrats to get those sanctions passed in the senate, but. right. jacqui: do you think that that s right. jacqui: and i know that the white house has yes, they have, they ve lobbied against senator cruz s
no longer time to be complacent. well said. jesse, let me handed over to you to give us his last topic. growing concerns over what is unstable, primary phone, what he could do next. russia s nuclear forces on highlight. find him with the russian dictator is really after. this new fox nation special: who is vladimir putin? the minute putin came to power he wanted to make retrograde again. he feels the west mistreated russia after the collapse of the soviet union, did not give him his proper due, did not show respect to it, left it out of court decisions that russia deserves to be involved in, and his job in his eyes to mr. risch s status as a great, great power. what did you find it by doing this piece that you did not know already, brian kilmeade? dana knows this up close and personal.
a real sanction that begins immediately before the full-blown invasion begins is what is preferred by you and a lot of senators and a lot of democrats actually voted with you for the resolution that was put forth by, i believe it was by yeah. i m sorry, by senator risch. david: exactly. why didn t that pass? we recognize that it s symbolic. look, we re in the middle right now of the beginning of the invasion by mr. putin. we recognize that as well. the message we re trying to send is, is that we believe sanctions absolutely could have at least made him hi twice, but we re past that point. and now it s a matter of moving to the next step which is to make very clear to mr. putin that his cost long term is going to be damning in terms of his long-term viability.