force that i assembled to put pressure on ukraine as a hostage, they ve finally agreed to take my concerns seriously, and they re going to sit down and sign agreements, treaties that will be submitted to the united states senate, that will be law that says they can t fly b-52 bombers closer than 12 mimes to our border or whatever. and of course we can say the same thing. we can benefit from these negotiations. so i think it will be a win-win for both sides. but he can clearly say that he succeeded in finally getting the americans to take his security concerns seriously. when you run the entire messaging system in russia and you control the message, you can declare victory even if you lose. ambassador taylor, always good to get your perspective and expertise. thank you, sir. thank you, chuck. good to be here. still to come, a new development in the investigation of the former president s financial records and business dealings as one major tax firm cuts ties with the trump organiz
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selectively closing down s.w.i.f.t., the global financial messaging system that s used to move money from one international bank to another. so that s going to pretty well freeze the individual banks or oligarchs or others to either find another way to move their money that s slow and dangerous for them or keep their money in in moskow. the second thing that they ve done that was really more notable is go after the russian central bank so that it can t intervene to try to stabilize the ruble. the ruble s fallen about 15% since all of this happened. and clearly what the administration is trying to do here is touch off inflation in throughout russia and try to bring and encourage more of these protests and dissent about