Worlds powerhouses, russia and china. While billions of dollars in tariffs are still just threats against china, the administration is unequivocally going after Vladimir Putin and some of his closest and wealthiest allies, including the russian president s reported former soninlaw, the one who is not in that picture, and an oligarch who has close ties with trumps former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Lets talk about what all this means with our own kara scanell. Who are these sanctions against . A number of people who are the oligarchs. You cant be an oligarch in russia unless you have the preapproval of putin. Theyre in charge of the Biggest Industries like aluminum, energy. Some of these oligarchs on this sanctions list also overlap with some of the actors in the Mueller Investigation. One of those is the head of one of the largest Aluminum Companies in the world. He invested with Paul Manafort and rick gates about two years ago in a fail ed enterprises. Manafort had reached out t