That number, a trillion dollars, 1000 billion dollars. that number is what s driving putin to do everything that he is doing today. that money should ve been spent on public services, health care and so on. instead it was spent on yachts and villas and private jets. as a, result people have become angry over the last 22 years. and anything, any small thing, could have set them off. and i believe the reason why putin invaded ukraine is not because of nato, not because of a grand mission of the soviet union, but because he needed to stay in power. and the best way for a dictator to stay in power is to distract its people, his people, and start a war. and i think that s what this is all about. that also, then, informed us about how we have to deal with this guy. it s not like we can just give him non-nato involvement of ukraine and that s going to solve the problem, he needs to be at war. let me ask you something.
Collapse, to bankrupt the russian economy to say stop to president putin. here s what he said. the aim of the economic sanctions is quite clear. we want to inflict serious measures to the russian economy and to the russian financial system. that s why we have decided, first of all, to freeze of all the assets of the russian central bank. this means not far from 1,000 billion dollars that would be freezed by the decision to european countries and the united states, european countries stand together vis-a-vis putin and the aggressive behavior of president putin. the second decision that we have taken is also to freeze the assets of all the oligarchs. reporter: so this is an attempt to stop putin, as he said to me, we just want to tell
No we re going the budget. even more fascinating. now that s a ratings grabber. bare chested congressman. the white house, first of all let s put this in context. we talked about this. largest budget deficit ever, $1.6 trillion. each trillion is 1,000 billion dollars. 2012, 1.1 trillion under the proposal, the best looking cut you get out of the white house that affects discretionary, the most vulnerable, least able to defend themselves, $33 billion which represent as 2% cut. good politics. walk the walk tough guy. doing nothing. gop, little better. 61 billion. comes out the 4%. we ll give them points for that other than the fact it s also irrelevant because we re dealing with trillions of dollars.