absolutely. forget about covid. this man is paranoid. this man doesn t go into a restaurant without five bodyguards around. him people are laughing about it here. well, again, this is what happens when you stay in power, not just empower, but also don t forget the first thing that vladimir putin did when he came to power decades ago was to dismantle the imperfect, nevertheless, real democratic institutions that we have here in russia, back in the 90s. he shut down the independent media channels. he objected the opposition from parliament. he did so on and so forth. there are no checks and balances. up there is most feedback for society. so when you have the sort of closed system led by and, frankly, aging dictator at the top, when most people around actually hit each other like spiders ajar, then paranoia is almost unavoidable. and yes, these images, initially, they put sort of a
sanctions on russia, banked in this country are bracing for russian retaliation? but what about the rest of. us clint watts is a former fbi special agent and a distinguish research fellow at the foreign policy research institute. clint, i brought to her because we need your help. we keep hearing about these potential cyberattacks. people like you and me, we don t have cybersecurity form something that. for those at home, what do we do to prepare? so, big things stephanie is don t use a simple password that s very common. no one, two, 34. no. no one, two, three for. second part. do you factor authentication. which is essentially putting in your phone number. use an authentic interceptor. when you log in, it sends a text message. that way you can confirm that
about the economy. he s going to talk about how he s very proud about his supreme court nominee and her swift confirmation of her. ukraine will be the first thing, first and foremost. he s going to remind us of our values as americans. that we are being put to the test right now. our special thanks to former homeland secretary, jeh johnson, . coming up next, he calls putin an unelected, unaccountable an increasingly deranged dictator. the russian opposition leader who escaped a fatal poisoning, not once but twice. he joins us from russia. one of our special coverage continues. s from rsiusa. s from rsiusa. one of our special continues. not all plastic is the same. we re carefully designing our bottles to be 100% recyclable, including the caps. they re collected and separated from other plastics, that we use to make new bottles. that completes the circle and reduces plastic waste.
reducing its holdings of exposure to dollars in recent years. bringing back its foreign exchange reserves from outside of the country bank into russia. and also by lots of gold. so, they have certainly been preparing for this kind of isolation. with that said, it is not going to protect it from all of the fallout. and on top of that, you have these the other things that you mentioned. banks are being cut out of the swiss messaging system. russian banks. although we re not quite sure how it s going to play. on we have a lot of international companies cutting ties with russian, basically trying to stop their joint bank sanctions. and we have the sanctions of the campaign. so, it s up to a pretty shocking collection of measures. the big question though is not just how badly would ve hit russia. but what would be the ripple effects on the rest of the financial system? and that is something that a
in the fact that this is a different landscape. there s a much more of a muscular response, but isn t stakes is ingrained pattern of doubling down. and achieve as military objective in ukraine. because if you can do that, and you can start to prop up the government. if you can attempt to pacify the population, he thinks there s a way out of this. unfortunately, i think the ukrainian people as you pointed out are having a deep will to resist. they re not going to give up. there s going to go on. if this gets as violent as i think it will, as going to go on for weeks, and it s going to continue to build pressure on vladimir putin just as the population starts to feel the pressure from the economic sanctions and the protests that have been relatively modest, but are going to explode when the russian family start to hear about the casualties russia suffered. given all of that, ambassador taylor, let s be