taking action, more than six months after congress passed a bill enacting those sanctions. i expect in the next several weeks we will be moving forward with sanctions on russia as a result of the act. so i can assure you that both in my discussions with the president, he is fully supportive of the work we re doing. the announcement came as the u.s. director of national intelligence, dan coats, said it s highly unlikely that russia will attempt to meddle in the 2018 election. sanctions target highly likely. sanctions cover key russian officials for meddling with the u.s. presidential election, including action against an oligarch list. a version was released by the state department last month. i m joined by evelyn farkus. thank you for having me, ali. this is a confusing one because congress in a bilateral way approved these sanctions
rich russian individuals and supposed to consider their closeness to the russian regime. it was supposed to consider their specific relationship to vladimir putin or members of the russian ruling elite and crucially, to put together that list, u.s. government officials were supposed to determine quote any corruption with respect to any of those individuals. they were supposed to come with this oligarch list. the u.s. government was going to use the resources to compile a list of russians that became millionaires because of putin s regime through ill gotten means, right? there are credible reports such a list was actually produced by specialists career employees within the u.s. government. that was first reported by the atlantic counsel. we were able to confirm it with a person who had knowledge of the process by which that list was created. we believe such a list was generated as a u.s. government work product as required by that
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to the kremlin. russian president vladimir putin joked he was offended his name is off the list, then said it damaged and already sour relationship. translator: this definitely isn t a friendly act. it complicates russian-american relations which are already complicated and international relations in general. other russians dismissed the oligarch list saying it appeared the state department copied the kremlin phone book. it was a list of their richest businessmen in russia from last year. treasury spokesperson says officials use that other public sources. treasury secretary steven mnuchin defended the effort come out pointing out department officials will soon discuss a more detailed version of the report. i don t think we are slow walking the report that we deliver last night. we look forward to discussing it in a classified setting. democrats question why the administration is yet to announce further sanctions against russians. secretary mnuchin says they are
we are obsessed with an administration who is obsessed with our justice department and fbi and seemingly not obsessed with russia s interference in elections. i can makeperspective, because the russians are unnerved. they don t like this list. they re calling it the kremlin list, not the oligarch list. right. they re a bit nervous over there. i m going to say, jonathan talked to gop leaders on the phone this morning. you talked to me on the phone this morning. you win. good point. jonathan and evelyn and my phone buddy, stephanie ruhle. president trump expected to pitch his infrastructure plan tonight at the state of the unicon. can it get bipartisan support? we re going to speak with a republican congressman and a democrat congressman. co-chairs of the problem solvers caucus. you know what you re watching. velshi & ruhle.