mr. obama announced are worse than useless because their main impact will be to make america look week. joining us now, brettlk in general about the reaction in the last 24 hours to these sanctions. what do you think it means? >> well, i mean, when your adversaries are spitting in your face and mocking sanctions that the administration claims are the most serious comprehensive sanctions ever imposed on post-cold war russia, it should alarm us because it means they're not taking us seriously and they have a good reason not to. i mean, think about it. russia just seized sovereign ukrainian territory conquest of territory in europe. unimaginable says joe biden in the 21st century. and we're sanctioning 11 individuals, not including, by the way, the most important or responsible individuals for what just happened. jenna: secretary kerry had said publicly announcing to vladimir putin that we're not going after you personally. but in your opinion, do you think we should be? are there ways to leverage our influence directly on vladimir putin, the man who's making the calls? >> well right. because what you have in r