many have heard of the magnitsky act. bill browder is the architect and driving force behind that, him, along with senator john mccain and senator carden. that's the largest and most significant sanctions that have been put on russia since the fall of the soviet union and would you all please join me in welcoming bill browder. [applause] >> so, bill, it's wonderful to have you and great to see a full packed house. a lot of people who are already know you and have your book and have followed you for many years. it's wonderful to have you here in person. we have a lot to get into, what's happening more recently but you also have a fascinating background on both sides of your family, really. in particular, maybe you could talk about your grandfather, someone who was head of the communist party in the united states, ran twice against f.d.r.. how is it that someone who is the grandson of probably the best known communist in american history went on to become the best known western capitalist in the heart of the soviet union? b

vladimir putin and his regime killed my lawyer sergei magnitsky from covering a massive putin connected corruption scheme and they killed him in a horribly sadistic way at the age of thirty seven and i've been going after them ever since they killed him and we've created a law in the name of sergei magnitsky in the united states in the u.k. in canada and the stony a laffey a lithuania and many other countries and there's a lot putin hate so much and that's the reason why he hates me and the fact that this law is causing him so much grief is something which which shows that we've got him back and that's what you with with pride you've been convicted in russia in a censure on two counts accused of tax fraud arrested very publicly in madrid last year accused among other things of killing mr magnitsky yourself. and then we come to this meeting in helsinki between trump donald trump the u.s. president and mr putin last year when putin said we'll give you the twelve indicted military intelligence officers indicted by special counsel robert mueller but what we want in return is you bill browde

the magnitsky act and sergei magnitsky's death has been one of the primary drivers of vladimir putin's motivation to get involved in the u.s. political process. and as a result of that, i and sergei magnitsky have become the center of local attention, because of this whole thing. host: just to give some degree of understanding from the russian perspective, do you think for a lot of ordinary, average russians, if you talk to , well, in will say the 1990's, we listened to the west, and the american governments and advisers i.m.f., , world bank all came in, ivy league economics professors and experts came in, we did what we were told to do, we had this wild west capitalism. granted, you could say it wasn't done with the rule of law and all the other necessary asked wrecks of it, but as a result of that, the country went crazy, much of the country was:. putin was elected and for better or worse, did restore a degree of order. do you think it is understandable that say a lot of the russian population is to the westlisten again? or perhaps that's why part of the reason putin degrees a high d

magnitsky act with powerful motivators well we know for sure that the russians were there because of the me and the magnitsky act and we know for sure that they supported donald trump because they thought he would be more favorable about these issues than hillary clinton and we know for sure that they were willing to do things in order to make that happen what we don't know is whether the donald with whether donald trump personally agreed to that and colluded all we know is what the russians intention was we don't know what donald trump's response was going back to the money trail. the basis of the act of course passed by barack obama or under the administration of two thousand and twelve how successful in practical terms has it be in the last six years in terms of strangling the funds of the oligarchs in terms of cooling human rights abuses to account well so extremely successful it's been a dramatic and sort of tectonic success and what why has it been so successful because because of the nature of russia so russia is a country where a thousand individuals have stolen all the money

magnitsky act with powerful motivators well we know for sure that the russians were there because of the me in the magnitsky act and we know for sure that they supported donald trump because they thought he would be more favorable about these issues than hillary clinton and we know for sure that they were willing to do things in order to make that happen what we don't know is whether the donald with whether donald trump personally agreed to that and colluded all we know is what the russians intention was we don't know what donald trump's response was going back to the money trail. the basis of the act of course passed by barack obama or under the administration of two thousand and twelve how successful in practical terms has it be in the last six years in terms of strangling the funds of the oligarchs in terms of cooling human rights abuses to account well so extremely successful it's been a dramatic and sort of tectonic success and why has it been so successful because because of the nature of russia so russia is a country where a thousand individuals have stolen all the money from

the magnitsky act had of likeredible effect really upsetting vladimir putin. sponsors of the magnitsky act, john mccain and ben carden said, well, wait a second, this seems to really work, why don't we use this for other dictators and bad guys? why should the venezuelans or chinese or other human rights violators get a better deal than ended up witho we a global magnitsky act in 2016 which was passed unanimously by the senate. then we started to

at the time i never heard of magnitsky or an act. adoption to me sounded strange.y thing i took away from that meeting. the only thing i remembered. if someone had said to me what was that meeting about, i would have said adoption. it was weird, but it was about adoptions. >> why was it weird? >> because the premise of my e-mail based on emin's facts was this lawyer had something to say about funding to the democrats. what's that got to do with adoptions? as it so happens, it had everything to do with it because what she said was that people like bill browder and the ziff brothers were funding the clintons and they were architects of the magnitsky act act. so it completes the circle. but it makes no sense to people when taken out of context. >> when all of this was happening, the president allegedly helped them draft a letter saying it was about adoption, the magnitsky act a, were you saying, oh something is not sitting right here in the moment? >> no. and i know it's hard for people to understand. if someone had put a gun to my head and said what was that meeting

arabia over the murder the politicians want trying to order an investigation by invoking the global magnitsky it's jordan or the latest from washington d.c. . the u.s. senate foreign relations committee had a closed door briefing with trumpet ministration officials on monday about the trumpet ministrations compliance with the global magnitsky act that is the law that requires the us to hold accountable governments and individual persons with sanctions for violating the rights of any of that country's citizens the senate foreign relations committee recently invoked them in a ski act in the case of the washington post columnist. he was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul back on october second senators from both parties have been very concerned that the administration doesn't want to jeopardize its relationship with riyadh and isn't doing enough to actively investigate the circumstances surrounding his shows he's murder or to hold accountable those members of the saudi government including perhaps the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sol month for their involvement in kosovo she's murder

gave the president one hundred twenty days to determine and investigate the perpetrators global magnitsky acts but the white house failed to meet that deadline more from our white house correspondent. well i think we can take what a couple of senators who have a lot of power in the senate are saying collectively not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine both democrats but it is important to note that there is unity rare unity on this issue in the u.s. congress with respect to the notion that the administration has essentially flouted the law when it comes to the trigger of the global magnitsky act you remember that that was triggered in twenty eighteen the administration was required to come up with a report to congress a few weeks ago with regard to who it believed was responsible for the killing of shows you have to remember this ministration said very specifically that it would pursue this to the highest echelons of the saudi government so many moments in congress are very unhappy when the state department simply sanctioned just seventeen individuals but did not point to the sau

president one hundred twenty days to determine and investigate the perpetrators and other global magnitsky acts but the white house failed to meet that deadline more from our white house correspondent kimberly how kids. well i think we can take what a couple of senators who have a lot of power in the senate are saying collectively not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine both democrats but it is important to note that there is unity rare unity on this issue in the u.s. congress with respect to the notion that the administration has essentially flouted the law when it comes to the trigger of the global magnitsky act you remember that that was triggered in twenty eighteen the administration was required to come up with a report to congress a few weeks ago with regard to who it believed was responsible for the killing you have to remember this ministration said very specifically that it would pursue this to the highest echelons of the saudi government so many months in congress are very unhappy when the state department simply sanctioned just seventeen individuals but did not point to

president's one hundred twenty days to determine and investigate the perpetrators under the global magnitsky acts but the white house failed to meet the deadline and european countries are expected to ask saudi arabia to cooperate with the u.n. probe into a murder the joint statement is scheduled to be released on thursday it will also demand that riyadh freeze detains activists secured no bar as a commentator and columnist on gulf affairs he says europe is helping keep the pressure on her case when you look at the european countries bringing this issue to to forefront of the un human rights council it essentially underscores stat for europe human rights remains a top priority and concerns over what happened to jamal khashoggi has now become a lightning rod if you will for detainees across the prisons in saudi arabia and else.

president one hundred twenty days to determine and investigate the perpetrators under the global magnitsky act the white house failed to meet that deadline let's get more now from our white house correspondent kimberly house in washington. well i think we can take what a couple of senators who have a lot of power in the senate are saying collectively not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine both democrats but it is important to note that there is unity rare unity on this issue in the u.s. congress with respect to the notion that the administration has essentially flouted the law when it comes to the trigger of the global magnitsky act you'll remember that that was triggered in twenty eighteen the administration was required to come up with a report to congress a few weeks ago with regard to who it believed was responsible for the killing of shows you have to remember this ministration said very specifically that it would pursue this to the highest echelons of the saudi government so many congress are very unhappy when the state department simply sanctioned just seventeen individual

that the administration has essentially flouted the law when it comes to the trigger of the global magnitsky act you remember that was triggered in twenty eighteen the administration was required to come up with a report to congress a few weeks ago with regard to who it believed was responsible for the killing of shows you have to remember this ministration said very specifically that it would pursue this to the highest echelons of the saudi government so many men in congress are very unhappy when the state department simply sanctioned just seventeen individuals but did not point to the saudi crown prince a conclusion that the u.s. senate certainly has come to after it was briefed by the cia director gina housefull there was another briefing that took place on monday where senators had hoped they would finally get the information that they were looking for as a result of the trigger of the big but they were in a word disgusted with what they were told according to not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine essentially the senators knew more about this case than those that were put forw

ank handled $150 million linked to the murder of sergei magnitsky.th bill browder at 10:00 a.m. new york time. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. alix: back to the ecb rate bankion, the central saying it will offer more long-term loans to banks and keep interest rates low for longer. ofning us now, mark okada highland capital management and bill snead. where's my market reaction? mark: a lot of this is priced in. tightening. see any off the 30 basis points projection for this year and one quarter, two months -- in one quarter, or two months. the softness is meaningful. it made sense that they wouldn't tighten at all. replace the support they've given to the banks. david: can they do this with monetary policy? don't they need fiscal stimulus? bill: nothing from nothing leaves nothing. you have to have something if you want to be with me. here's all these cheap equities in europe, an economy that has floundered. what i thought about yesterday ago, the u.s. led th

washington post journalist something that it promised to do but then refused to do under the global magnitsky act so this is the latest concern is that there is not only a concern about a proliferation in the middle east with respect to nuclear arms but something that the u.s. secretary of state my pump a of this week reassured lawmakers about but there's just this concern about the depth and breadth of the relationship not being made clear to members of congress so members of congress have taken matters once again into their own hands to try and hold the trumpet ministration accountable with this latest secret energy deal that has been taking place what they're doing is they have sent a letter to the government accountability office this is a nonpartisan investigatory body to look into this matter and we can tell you that the government accountability office or g.a.o. as it's known here in the united states has accepted that request that investigation into these latest deals now underway can be how could in washington thank you. well moving to other news at least nineteen people have died in

hearing about what headway the trumpet ministration has made in the investigation into the global magnitsky act with rosen in jordan. the u.s. senate foreign relations committee had a closed door briefing with trumpet ministration officials on monday about the trumpet ministrations compliance with the global magnitsky act that is the law that requires the us to hold accountable governments and individual persons with sanctions for violating the rights of any of that country's citizens the senate foreign relations committee recently invoked them in a ski act in the case of the washington post columnist. he was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul back on october second senators from both parties have been very concerned that the administration doesn't want to jeopardize its relationship with riyadh and isn't doing enough to actively investigate the circumstances surrounding his shows he's murder or to hold accountable those members of the saudi government including perhaps the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sol month for their involvement in kosovo she's murder apparently once this c

they are taking away from this the administration simply doesn't intend to comply with the global magnitsky act that triggered many months ago requirement under u.s. law for the administration to point to who specifically ordered the killing the senator say it's simply not enough that the there have been seventeen saudi individuals sanctioned because the highest levels who may have ordered this killing have not been held responsible so senator simply pointing out that in the last week we saw the president's son in law jared cushion are going to be specifically with the crown prince not bringing this issue up the takeaway is that so far the administration believes it can get a free pass and so the senators have collectively decided to take matters in their own hands they're currently weighing their options there could be a number of avenues they pursue it could amount to sort of punishments with regard to saudi arms sales or even having the president's nominees not confirmed in the u.s. senate and it's not even just the case it is angering u.s. senators what are we hearing about a saudi acti

that the administration has essentially flouted the law when it comes to the trigger of the global magnitsky act you'll remember that that was triggered in twenty eighteen the administration was required to come up with a report to congress a few weeks ago with regard to who it believed was responsible for the killing of shows you have to remember this ministration said very specifically that it would pursue this to the highest echelons of the saudi government so many congress are very unhappy when the state department simply sanctioned just seventeen individuals but did not point to the saudi crown prince a conclusion that the u.s. senate certainly has come to after it was briefed by the cia director gina housefull there was another briefing that took place on monday where senators had hoped they would finally get the information that they were looking for as a result of the trigger of the act but they were in a word disgusted with what they were told according to not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine essentially the senators knew more about this case than those that were put for

members of congress long felt that this administration did not fulfill its requirements of the global magnitsky act to get to the bottom of holding the highest levels of the saudi kingdom responsible for that killing they point to the saudi crown prince following cia briefings so members of congress are now doubling down on that frustration and anger when it comes to these latest deals reports that there have been secret authorizations by the trumpet ministration to allow for the selling of nuclear power technology to saudi arabia now we did reach out to the department of energy to ask about this they said look at we're not going to confirm or deny that there were these secret approvals that were put forward approved by the energy secretary but if that did happen it would only happen because this is just protect the u.s. companies and their proprietary business information to allow them to stay competitive and this is only to allow them to work ahead on a project but none of this equipment that might be constructed for the construction of a nuclear power plant one of two potentially in the king

informed the trump campaign that they were interfering, they said what they wanted in return, the magnitsky act relieved, sanctions relieved, and they got exactly what they asked for in terms of of a pro-putin, pro-russia policy. all mueller seems to have found is that the trump campaign didn't assist the russians in their interference, but they didn't need the assistance of the trump campaign, the russians did fine on their own and the trump campaign benefitted from it. so i think it's a narrow read upon which the mueller team appears to have said no laws were broken. >> jeremy, you raise what may be the issue at the crux of this. if and when we get to see the text, again with secrets redacted, so no one gets exposed, you may read it as an entirely different document than the sitting attorney general, who is now out on something of a limb because we have seen his interpretation. >> that's right. and i think fundamentally what bob mueller was looking at, and i think what bill barr was looking at, was were federal criminal laws broken. of course, this started as a counterintelligence investi

and has identified $176 million he says link them to the tax fraud associated with the death of magnitskyu very much for joining us. bloomberg's nordic managing editor helping us get caught up on this developing story. that's it for the "european open." i'll be headed over to the ecb and just a little bit, in under four hours from now, they will be releasing their state. -- statement and then doing a press conference. up next is "bloomberg: surveillance." a little later, tom keene will join francine lacqua. we are headed to bloomberg radio, which you can follow if radi.our ati go -- this is bloomberg. ♪ you. all of you. how you live, what you love. that's what inspired us to create america's most advanced internet. internet that puts you in charge. that protects what's important. it handles everything, and reaches everywhere. this is beyond wifi, this is xfi. simple. easy. awesome. xfinity, the future of awesome. francine: ecb may cut forecasts for inflation again, while fed officials say they can't afford to be patient. huawei sues the u.s. government for banning the equipment, sayin

unrelated, bill browder alleges they handled money connected to surgery magnitsky.lsoorities are reportedly investigating the lender, alleging they misled authorities about suspicious activity, and allegations have been made that paul manafort, trump's former campaign chairman, received payments through swedbank. in response, a spokesman said the lender is limited about what they can say about any communication that may have taken place with u.s. authorities. our nordic editor joins us, from stockholm. through, we have gone the story from the beginning. what should we expect today? kathleen: it was a really bad stockr swedbank, the ending down 12%. after the market closed, more bad news, that the economic crime authority is expanding the investigation, no longer just breaching insider information rules, but whether they misled the market between october and december. we can expect a fairly tense agm, i think that is fair to say. so the ceo and the board and the chairwoman -- they are facing multiple investigations. learned after we apparently misleading authorities

it was really about sanction relief, the magnitsky act, and what they wanted over donald trump. so in some ways the conspiracy question is a narrow one. i accept robert mueller's decision that there was conduct there. but the william barr letter, page 3, where he says bob mueller didn't make a decision here, that leaves it to the attorney general, him speaking in the third person about himself, says who? there's no policy, no law, no attorney general guideline, special counsel guideline that says if the special counsel doesn't make a prosecutorial decision it goes to the attorney general -- >> who else would it go to? >> it could be a nonprosecution event. instead what barr says is i have re-examined all the evidence and determined that donald trump is clean on this. i don't know what authority bill barr was using to make that conclusion, and i don't know if it was a correct conclusion. that's something congress is going to have to undertake and examine. >> brendon, i'll start with you, the question of what they do next. house democrats are not going to drop this, but it seems i

administration on account ability for jamal's killing including an explanation under the global magnitsky as to who was responsible we heard senator leahy talk about the saudi royal family being responsible and he's saying that from a position of someone who has access to more information than a lot of us do not surprising the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions who has been looking into this also made a preliminary finding that the saudi government was clearly responsible for the killing of jamal khashoggi that it was not a rogue action by rogue actors that was not incidental it was planned it was premeditated not surprising to any normal person who knows they don't carry bone saws in their carry on bag when they travel to another country but the international community perhaps need to be reminded of that so one question that i hear a lot when i talk about saudi arabia here in congress is why now everyone knows the saudi regime has been brutal everyone knows their human rights abuses in saudi arabia the image that most americans think of when they think about saudi arabia i

only to for there to be accountability but also in terms of reports to congress under the global magnitsky act so there's this feeling here in washington that when it comes to saudi arabia we've seen this before so what the lawmakers on capitol hill are now doing democrats and republicans is they've sent a letter to the general accountability office and this is a nonpartisan office that conducts investigations that office has in fact accepted that request and is now looking into this matter and again what's significant about this is given there is a divided united states divided on capitol hill and so many issues on this one there seems to be bipartisan concern about secrecy from the trumpet ministration again with respect to deals being granted to saudi arabia kimberly how could how the white house thank you. the british government is hinting there might be another vote on briggs it but it's not actually clear what m.p.'s would be voting on on wednesday the british prime minister terry said i promised she would step down if her twice reject a deal was passed by parliament. i'd. also like

senators is that in their eyes the trumpet ministration has essentially flat out of the law the global magnitsky act that was triggered more than one hundred twenty days ago the administration did not come up with a report to congress pointing the finger at who is to blame certainly the senators have concluded is the saudi crown prince that ordered the killing that's a conclusion following a cia briefing by g. and a houseful so they are frustrated that the administration sent only a letter to congress saying that they would continue to work with congress as they continue to investigate the point of the administration has long been look we've put in place seventeen sanctions against saudi nationals the senators point out it's not the highest levels of the saudi government and that's why they're pushing to do more saying in their words they're going to take matters into their own hands a couple of options that are open they could try to stall some of the trumpet ministrations. for murphy they could try to stall some of those nominations in the u.s. senate they also could take action with regard to

i call on a partnerships to consider imposing their own magnitsky like sanctions on the regime to amplify the impact. regime officials should not be loutd to hide proceeds of the corruptions overseas and send family members to live abroad in luxury while the country starves. as we are well aware, there are also clear steps that the maduro regime can take to get themselves delisted from sanctions. knows currently keeping in illegitimate government should know it's not fo late to do the right thing. our partners and allies in latin america and worldwide formed a powerful chor us calling for a peaceful return to democracy in venezuela. more than 50 countries joined us to in recognizing the legislate macy of the guaido government. i hope oerps continue to do so. the united states along with you are oh global partners can help the interim government resolve the crisis peacefully so that venezuelan people can finally fully reclaim their country. i really do appreciate the witnesses that are here today. i really look forward, mr. abrams and administrators green we thank you for your long service

well not only did the trumpet ministration miss a deadline under the global magnitsky act to congress on what it is doing to hold all those responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi apparently the closed door briefing has ended and according to us social media reports lindsey graham the republican senator from south carolina came out and said that the closed door briefing was basically a waste of time and that he knew more than what the trumpet ministration officials who were briefing the senators had to say about the entire matter now this is a question of what happens now legislators are not saying exactly what they're going to do but they are indicating that they're going to try to put more pressure on the administration to comply with the law which does call for mandatory sanctions in the case where a government is suspected of violating someone's human rights and civil rights and legal protections so this is still very much a fluid situation because beyond sanctioning seventeen saudi nationals back in mid november the trumpet ministration at least as far as everyone knows has

it's global magnitsky. a tool that was debated. it was congressionally driven, debated during the obama administration. the trump administration exbr e embraces it. the trump administration and human rights policy are not things i think of linked together. there it is. the trump administration has used it to go after some pretty awful characters. including some people we were looking at hard in the obama administration. bad actors in africa. with blood on their hands. not good people. how do you -- what do you make of both the irony of the trump administration embracing a human rights sanctions tool and what do you think of their -- of its implementation so far? all sanctions tools can be used badly or misused. >> i have to confess, dan, in my private life i haven't followed all of the instances in which the global mag has been used. i do think that it is important for sanctions to be a tool that is available when there are appropriate times to protest human rights violations. what i don't know is how effective they are, whether it

senator shaheen brought up the lack of responsiveness of the global magnitsky act. i am frustrated of the unwilling to follow up on the national defense authorization act which my colleagues and i have worked on and there is a provision which requires the secretary to certify the governments of saudi arabia and uae are undertaking a number of actions provisional that is a detailed requirement for yemen related briefings to congress and requires the administration to give a strategy for yemen. we have not seen a credible certification from the administration i don't intend to remain silent i want this to be followed. so general would you commit to a monthly update on the following, description of saudi arabia military and political objectives in yemen and united states assistance to the saudi led coalition leading in significant progress to meet those objectives and the government of saudi arabia and the assessment of the need for existing secondary expection and the transshipment requirements of the humanitarian and commercial vessels cleared by the un verification

accountable the authors of the crime and says that until that happens we will sanction them under the magnitsky act. ruler les out the brutal of chechnya as a key player in the crime and urges the administration to ensure that he can no longer do business anywhere outside russia. we ssing this resolution, will make clear that you can kill a man but not the ideas he fought for, the good person that lived and died for a good cause will be honored for all time while the people who killed him will go down in history if they are remembered at all as utterly worthless. and we will be saying something else very important, that the united states is not in conflict with russia or with the russian people. on the contrary, we are in solidarity with the thousands of russians, who, like boris nemtsov, wants a country that's free of corruption, a country where nobody is above the law. our argument is only with the leaders who deny them that. but those leaders won't be around forever. boris nemtsov's legacy will outlast them, and so will our desire to partner with the russia that shares his values and vision.

use of global magnitsky, other tools that are available. there needs to be a clear message to those who are part of the maduro machinery, whether they are in the military or not in the military. are we aggressively using individual sanctions to make it clear that people that are in power under maduro have a choice, if they follow his leadership, they will be sanctioned and we will maintain those sanctions and seek international support for those sanctions, but they have an opportunity to do what's right for the people of venezuela? mr. abrams: we are. we've sanctioned dozens of regime officials. there will be more sanctions. there were a half dozen a few days ago. i announced 49 last week. the vice president announced 77 more. regime people and their families whom we don't want in the united states. senator cardin: we made it clear there is a path forward, that if they do what's right for the people of venezuela? mr. abrams: yes. every time we do this we note these -- sanctions are all reversible. senator cardin: ambassador -- administrator

for the express purpose here in the united states to lobby on behalf of russia as related to the magnitsky act. right now, there is no limitation on how much money can be contributed by a foreign government entity to a 5o1c for? is that correct? >> correct. >> and there is no disclosure required as well? ?s that correct >> that's correct. >> in your estimation is it , prudent to limit the amount of contributions one could make and also that that is subject to disclosure. >> i think it would be very important. there are limits and bands for national giving many of campaign contributions and we should look at those limits and certainly disclosure for contributions to federal 5o1c4. >> there are four cabinet officials in this investigation, humancretary of humana -- , and otherservices who have all resigned amidst evidence for extravagant and unnecessary travel expenses and i would like to ask if you can speak to the impact these resignations have had on the executive branch agencies and how we can relieve ourselves of the abuse that some of these secretaries of various cabinet posts are enga

but it seems to me that the magnitsky act sanctions and other things ought to be brought to bear against those people. and thank you on ambassador john richmond for two very superb choices, special envoy on anti-semitism, so thank you for that leadership because they are two wonderful people that are doing a good job already. let me ask you too, announced by ronald reagan at -- let me jump back. last night i was at a premier of a brand-new film called "unplanned." based on the life of abby johnson and her book "unplanned" which i've read. it chronicles her life as a planned parenthood student activist followed by eight years of a director where over 20,000 abortions were performed. in that movie, she points out that she assisted in the first ultrasound guided abortion at that clinic and she says the details startled me. at 13 weekends you could see the profile of the head, arms and legs. with my eyes glued on the imagine of this baby, i watched as a new image emerged. an instrument attached to the end of the suction tube, it looked like an invader out of place. she then says that first t

this resolution also calls on the treasury department to use tools like the magnitsky act to sanction individuals linked to this brutal murder, such as garamaev. we hear constantly from russian opposition figures and civic activists that personal sanctions such as those imposed by the magnitsky act have a deterrent effect. and vladimir putin has made it abundantly clear that these sanctions based on personal accountability are more of a threat to his regime than blunter tools such as sectoral sanctions that often feed his propaganda and end up harming the same people we are trying to help in russia, innocent citizens. to its credit, the trump administration has done a better job than the previous administration in implementing the new mandates and powers congress authorized in both the russia and global magnitsky acts. we are in a much different place than we were when these tools were originally envisageed nearly ten years ago. the administration is mandated to update the magnitsky act lists annually with a deadline in december that sometimes slips into january. now it is already mar