considering the possibility of sanctions against russia for not going far enough to try to d dissuade assad? we don t comment on the sp z specific of sanctions we are going to do in the future but the sanctions programs are very important. they re very effective. we will continue to use them to the maximum amount available by law. secretary, on the budget, is the border wall a deal breaker for the president even to the point of government shutdown? i m not going to comment on the specifics of that, but what i will say is i was in a meeting this morning with director mulvaney and other senior people. the president is working hard to keep the government open. and addressing various issues. . can you tell us what the sanctions actually do? what is different today than was different yesterday? well, the sanctions are enormously important. by identifying 271 additional
her approach, and filed a civil suit, and came back to sue the first prosecutor for defamation as well. so you have a different victim who is viewed differently, and even the other 40 or so plus victims who have been tried and trusted in the court of public opinion. do you think that he is going to show up at court today? i if he does, i d be sp z surprised. it is going to be a very short hearing, and the whole purpose is to preserve his rights and plead not guilty, but the most important part of today is to set that motion schedule, because it is a very important motion coming, and that is can the other alleged victims testify in this criminal trial about whether or not he has a general if theme of this sort of criminal behavior a and that date is going to be set very quickly. and you know, brianna, the normal process when somebody is indicted for a felony is that a warrant for his arrest is issued if there has been an ongoing