more than a thousand witness interviews including those with leaders from the proud boys from the doj s letter in part, read this, it is now readily apparent that the interviews the select committee conducted are not just potentially relevant to our overall criminal investigations, but are likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commenced. well, the news that we alluded to this afternoon, a spokesman confirmed an earlier new york times scoop to our team on the hill that the committee will cooperate with the doj. what that could mean and how that partnership could play out, we will have more on that in just a few moments, but first, one of this week s central questions was whether or not the committee would eventually vote on referring trump to the department of justice for a potential criminal case. watching yesterday s explosive hearing, politico suggests this, the committee is making that referral in its own way presenting evidence in a clear chronology t
is there a political play for democrats. the right-wing media has been inflation, inflation, inflation and they re trying to make this all about a distraction and the reaction is that everyone has the bandwidth to talk about these two pressing issues facing an existential threat to our democracy and the other, our economy and is there a democratic play surrounding the messaging surrounding january 6th? they sure need to try. this needs to be about extremism versus the reality of an economic situation that s very painful for most americans and i m not going to sit here and sugarcoat it. it s going to be tough. if the economy hasn t improved and gas prices haven t come down and the stock market hasn t stabilized, i think it s going to be rough terrain for democrats, but these candidates that are getting nominated, i mean, you ve got a candidate that has been indicted for governor in michigan. you ve got candidates everywhere that totally embrace the big lie, that totally are
and it s a run on cash, going to the atms, food prices doubling there because people are trying to buy whatever is on the shelves. it s wartime. it is wartime officially. and the ruble has crashed. yeah. go ahead. the ruble has crashed, their stock market hasn t opened for days because they know it s going to fall hard and it s quite difficult for its central bank to do anything right now. it raised interest rates from 20% to 9.5% so that will fall squarely on russian citizens as well. everything will get more increasingly more expensive. do you know who still has a pile of money, vladimir putin. not really. what? with the sanctions on his $630 billion of foreign exchange reserves in gold, he actually can t access that because he can t utilize it to raise funds on international markets given some of the banking restrictions that have been put in place. about 80% of those assets at the central bank are effectively frozen right now.
say, i will never forget what churchill said, if a country is defeated, they will be able to rise again. defeated, they will be able to rise again- rise again. right, obviously that is powerful rise again. right, obviously that is powerful fighting - that is powerful fighting strong talk but there is a reality here that every day that goes by, the life of ukrainians gets worse, there is a 35 hour curfew in kyiv with huge fears as to what is about to happen there be this needs to be resolved very quickly and yet frankly talking about the most effect of thing being long term economic sanctions? i being long-term economic sanctions? being long-term economic sanctions? i don t think the sanctions sanctions? i don t think the sanctions are sanctions? i don t think the sanctions are long-term. . sanctions? i don t think the sanctions are long-term. i | sanctions are long term. i think they are making a huge impact already. the stock market hasn t even reopened in russia and the peopl
are there more that will be come something. reporter: we have a number of additional options at our disposal. we should step back for a minute. look at the impact the sanctions we already imposed and had on the russian economy and the russian leadership. we sanctioned president putin and the oligarchs closest to him. the russian stock market hasn t opened in three weeks. they seem afraid to open it because they know the crash that you would ensue. we could in half the war chest he built up to fund this war. we already imposed severe consequences. we have other options that we will continue to consider and roll out. a moment ago we played the video of president biden, we believe for first time, calling president putin a war criminal. what does that mean now? the law is very clear. sbengal attacks on civilian