the treasury and the state department are expected to presenting the president ideas for that as well as plans for potentially freezing the assets of individual russian officials. plans even for freezing out the whole russian banking system, which is sort of a nuclear option in terms of economic sanctions. the pentagon tonight announced that the u.s. will put on hold all military to military engagements between the u.s. and russia. that includes exercises and bilateral meetings and port visits and planning conferences. when there are international crises like this, when there are cross-border invasions, it s the u.n. security council that is supposed to act to resolve those matters, right? the u.n. security council met about this issue on an emergency basis on friday and they met again over the weekend and then they met again today. and although those u.n. security council meetings led to some very pushy speeches, because russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council, they
that there s a threat. we have not seen any evidence of that threat, jake. all right diana with truth squadding of claims made by russian officials. thank you so much. the u.s. is suspending upcoming trade and investment talks with russia over the crisis. officials are considering a further series of economic and diplomatic steps to isolate russia. all military to military engagements with russia have been put on hold according to the pentagon including exercises, buoy lateral meetings, port visits, planning conferences. we ll have kevin ryan join me live from russian shar joining . how big is a deal is this to put on hold the military relationship with russia? well, as far as i know this is only happened maybe twice before since the end of the cold war. it is a big deal. it happened when russia invaded
that includes exercises and bilateral meetings and port visits and planning conferences. when there are international crises like this, when there are cross-border invasions, it s the u.n. security council that is supposed to act to resolve those matters, right? the u.n. security council met about this issue on an emergency basis on friday and they met again over the weekend and then they met again today. and although those u.n. security council meetings led to some very pushy speeches, because russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council, they have the right to veto anything that goes through that body and so nobody expects that anything useful will actually come through the u.n. it would have to go through russia in order to go through the u.n. security council and it s not going to go through russia. there s also the matter of the g-8. the world s eight largest democratic industrial economies. this group used to be the g-7 until the late 90s when they decided to add ru