Intelligence knows more than enough about putin s money, whether this money, it s under his name, which i doubt very much or in the wallets of oligarchs around the world. by the way, you already should recognize, we re talking about hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. the amount of money that was taken out of russia during putin s 20-plus year rule is estimated at around $2 trillion. and putin definitely controls most of that, again, not directly. you don t have to sanction putin personally, but you know exactly how to make him feel essential. none of the sanctions have putin s interest. and russia s dictator doesn t care about ordinary russians. since invasion of ukraine, annexation of crimea eight years ago, germany doubled the amount of russian gas it has been
What is in this bill, and level with us, what are the chances it actually gets passed because it doesn t really matter what happens in the house if the senate doesn t want to play ball. first, stephanie, our prayers are with the families of both officers who lost their lives in the last week in new york city, and you know, this piece of legislation is about investing to protect because we believe you can t define, you need to invest to make departments better and stronger and protect people in our communities and of course officers. there are 40 cosponsors, half democrat and half republican, to your point is a very good sign. this does four major things. one, it invests in training for deescalation, and domestic violence. really helps with overtime, especially for our smaller departments. it helps with retention recruitment, body cameras, for the cloud storage, which are very expensive for our smaller departments, and mental health resources for our officers.
Tool kit, as you know, steph, the russian economy has vulnerabilities already baked in. the state of new york has a higher economic output than does russia. california has a gdp that is almost two or three times bigger than russia. russia doesn t export anything other than oil, gas, and arms. they don t really create things that most people want to buy, and so to mike s point, as the administration considers cutting off, for instance, tech exports as a way of sort of pinpointing strategic pressure on russia, they re hoping that works, but this is all really compounded and complicated by the fact that president biden is dealing with an autocrat whose decision making is opaque. president biden spoke to this yesterday, it s hard to read the tea leaves. any other leader who would amass troops, you can glean from that what they would do next, not so with president putin.
just because he s not good as being a dictator doesn t mean he s not trying. he s an incompetent dictator. that s the best i can say at this point. i wish the president would have been more careful with his words. thank you, thank you. i also believe when we re attacked by antifa, and leftists i lived in chicago when we were shut down, i think the trump supporters have to be ready. i ve been in buildings where pipe bombs were set because of president trump. that s the fundamental issue and i think we all agree political violence is unacceptable and un-american, let s agree on that. thank you both. on outfront next i m going to be me, run with everyone, run for everyone, listen to everybody.
Happened in the middle of the night that may get lost in the headlines that say no deal. a few hours before things fell apart kim jong un went on camera and to questions from american reporters which he had never done before, dictator doesn t have a free press and when pressed, will you denuclearize? he said yes, i want to do that? otherwise why what i bother coming here? they don t have a deal. he s on camera, on the record both in singapore or piece of paper and on camera saying i want to denuclearize. that is why the president wanted it. kim jong un that is not a deal he could entertain. fascinating to see if they overplay their hand or didn t want a deal. we have to wait. they may come back in 6 months and the president may get a better deal like reagan did. jillian: these teams of gotten to know each other, they learn