The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Right . But it has to be potentially damaging. I was a senior republican senator, im not attacking the Koch Brothers because theyre still good donors of mine, so why stir up that . Why talk about lebron james or our own don lemon . The president does, you know, get involved in a lot of things. It would be much better if he left it. He could have an opportunity to speak if he really wants to and his attorneys are advising against the president being interviewed by bob mueller but apparently they are still working on questions of parameters, et cetera. Do you see, shan, that the president just simply cannot resist, even if his attorneys say dont do it, he cant resist but talk about it facetoface with bob mueller. I think he definitely has a Discipline Problem in terms of message and i think thats why his lawyers are so worried about him sitting down with mueller. Why is he so insistent that he would want to. I think tha
Chinese refiners are importing huge amounts of oil ahead of winter, betting that, as the EU phases out Russian fuel, they will be able to take Russia’s place
the war is continuing. the ukrainians continue to killed by russians, killed our children, our woman, our man, our soldier, our civilian and destroying our city. it s absolutely understandable that these sanctions, which exist, it s not enough. griff: what s the strongest part of this new sanctions? fuel embargo, russian energy because it s a very big part of their budget. we proposed to issue these sanctions for all russians banks. increase the numbers of the physical person, because it s necessary to concentrate the first wave of the sanctions, it was against they called these people oligarchs, but many people in russia who s
boycotting russian gas becoming the first european nations to do so. the european union agreed to ban russian coal but the eu has fallen short of banning oil and natural gas. and according to the eu s own foreign policy chief it spent about $45 billion since russia invaded ukraine. ukrainian officials meanwhile have been telling the world to consider every dollar spent on russian energy is a dollar that will help fund russia s unprovoked war with president volodymyr zelenskyy calling for a fuel embargo and saying quite plainly that the delay is costing lives. quote, how many more ukrainian men, how many more ukrainian women, the russian military will have time to kill in order for you, certain politicians, and we know who you are, to find some determination. end quote. joining me is the global energy
koreans aren t going to give everything up before sanctions relief. this is going to have to be a reciprocal process where they do stuff and we do stuff, but none of this happens until we have an agreement, an actual agreement, and so negotiations have to begin in order to get that agreement. right, but there is one difference here, jim, and i obviously this report has been happening for years, there has been this is a the swiss cheese of sanctions enforcement in many ways. but the difference is that the united nations did put unprecedented pressure through their sanctions resolutions on north korea, particularly with respect to a fuel embargo, that some could argue helped lead north korea to the negotiating table, and now this negotiating table, as you pointed out, is an open-ended process about talks, we re talking about talks at this point, but if sanctions aren t being enforced and north korea is still having access to revenue, access to products, the incentive for them to si