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Russia clearly can invade at any time they choose to. however, the other side of this coin is that the nato countries and the european union are coming closer and closer together. putin has managed to end what was a very disjointed and nato in disarray. he has managed to pull nato back together again, very, very strongly. the united states is continuing its european defense initiative, which has been underway, since russia invaded crimea, and the eastern ukraine area. that has put additional troops rotating into the eastern european countries of poland, bulgaria, and romania as well as bolstering our efforts in the baltic countries. but all of that is pushing back very, very hard. and perhaps most important of all, the sanction issue is very, very serious problem for putin, ....
Sanction issue go by. they re very real. there was a discussion of whether they should be preemptive or post. they re clearly going to be post sanctions in addition to whatever exists in law. that s a major problem. yes, we have seriously provided defensive armaments, missiles and other equipment to ukraine so that they could repel or at least fight back on a russian invasion, exacting serious cost to the russian soldiers and those body bags are going to head back to moscow and that s a real problem for putin. but putin s got to think the long term here. the negotiations are extremely important that are going on and there have been certain signals that have been put forth that there is a road on the negotiations that would provide security to the west, including ukraine, as well as to moscow. and this has to do with the ongoing nuclear negotiations and ....
Interference. you said you think he will do it. do you have reason to believe he will do that in the next few minutes? i have reason to believe because he is a skilled negotiator and he knows it is relevant and there s no way to get around it. when russia desperately would like economic relief because of the sanctions. keep in mind, 50% of gdp is dependent on trade. it s $3.7 trillion, ours is $18 trillion. they need us more than we need them economically. the other thing trump brought up is get off our energy. oil and gas prices are already down and we ll have economic problems. i think that you can t get around this because of the sanction issue, if nothing else. michael hanlan reporting overnight. picking up spying efforts, let ....
Trace? trace: where does washington stand holding iran accountable? this morning we had a series of hearings, both republicans and democrats, calling for debilitating sanctions against iran. our best hope for slowing the iranian nuclear train is bringing its financial machinery tie grinding halt. let s be clear, sanctions have to hurt. if they don t hurt, they re not effective. the goal is not for us to pat ourselves on the back and issue press releases here. it s to inflict crippling economic pain over there. for some context on the sanction issue, the u.s. does virtually no business with iran and must rely on other nations to limit or cut off their trade. china and russia do the most trade with iran on energy, but it would require the u.s. to strong-arm or punish chinese or russian businesses, something the administration has tried to ....
About sanctions on russia and how they re unfair, how they re based on lies and a conspiracy. and also according to e-mails and exchanges, the trump team leave and think it was a bit of a waist of time. the question is what was it? what was going on there? was this a suggestion of quid pro quo? we ll give you that dirt on hillary if you deal with the sanction issue. it also raises the question, who is this woman? who is veselnitskaya? she still maintains that she s a private citizen. doesn t work for the government, no connections. we uncovered the e-mails, given them by a source who says they came from an anonymous source, and they show or appear to show correspondence between veselnitskaya and a member of the russian government coordinating a u.s. response to a u.s. legal case. that suggests a degree of ....