this is what we heard today, blocking to russian financials the duchenne's, cutting -- institutions,utting them off from the debt market. targeting russian elites, families, and this is the first time president biden spoke about the oligarchs and their connection to vladimir putin. it is also important to point out there will be more and can be more should vladimir putin decide to escalate the situation further. michael: what are people saying about how much of an impact the sanctions will have? >> that is really the big question, because this is not a surprise for vladimir putin. for russia, they have had a lot of time to think about exactly this question. it is a first step, a dramatic one, russia sees now that they have to pay a price for their actions. it also leaves the door open for vladimir putin. there are more sanctions to come, only if putin decides he wants to attack ukraine further, moving his troops beyond the separatist controlled areas. there is still a chance for him to steer back or decide for a diplomatic path. the u.s. expectation is not as optimistic anymore. the

financials to duchenne's. the individuals can no longer put their money in u.s. banks, individuals with ties to vladimir putin. we are expecting more today would also trying to wrap our heads around what happened yesterday, events moving quickly and we are getting your reaction as we hear from you about whether you think the response so far has been too strong, too weak, or about right. carla says it has been too weak. caller: there is an old expression. he who hesitates is lost. i am 90 years old. i remember vividly world war two. all these saber rattlers calling in, mainly old men that want to go to war, it is young men who go to war. the new way to fight a war is economically. i heard a report on c-span the other day about the russian economy and that there are 50 oligarchs propping up putin. we should have just gone in before this. we all knew what putin was going to do. why didn't we go ahead with sanctions? we give them a little tap on the shoulder. they do not do any good. people in europe do not want to have a war. they have been through this twice in the

if you try to figure out what the framers of the cause of duchenne -- of the constitution meant, if you thought of what the ratifies meant, you might look at the federalist paper and anti-federalist paper and other arguments at the time about whether we should ratify or not. i contrast if you look at the original public meaning or objective meaning it is sometimes called you might look at sources such as legal treatises, dictionaries, corpus linguistics, how a word was used at that time. for many years justice thomas did not specifically articulate what type of original meaning he felt was controlling. we did see, if you just saw the movie, i saw clips from the movie over the lunch hour, and the mcdonald's case he originally said the original public meaning. sources such as dictionaries from the founding era and public documents and what the framers objectively thought and the ratifies thought would be most relevant. you can see it in many of his cases. justice thomas probably sites dictionaries more than any other justice. he sites dictionaries for the meanings of commerce. he sites di

financials to duchenne's. the individuals can no longer put their money in u.s. banks, individuals with ties to vladimir putin. we are expecting more today would also trying to wrap our heads around what happened yesterday, events moving quickly and we are getting your reaction as we hear from you about whether you think the response so far has been too strong, too weak, or about right. carla says it has been too weak. caller: there is an old expression. he who hesitates is lost. i am 90 years old. i remember vividly world war two. all these saber rattlers calling in, mainly old men that want to go to war, it is young men who go to war. the new way to fight a war is economically. i heard a report on c-span the other day about the russian economy and that there are 50 oligarchs propping up putin. we should have just gone in before this. we all knew what putin was going to do. why didn't we go ahead with sanctions? we give them a little tap on the shoulder. they do not do any good. people in europe do not want to have a war. they have been through this twice in the