the swift dan — difference? yes, it will. the swift dan is _ difference? yes, it will. yes, it will. the swift dan is very important, j swift dan is very important, very important politically in particular. it becomes something of a cause celebre for president zelenskyy and all those who are supporting ukraine and it is very important from the perspective of continuing to isolate russia. it will, from an economic perspective, be somewhat not weak but much of what it will accomplish has orally been accomplished with the financial sanctions that have already been placed on russian banks.— have already been placed on russian banks. ~ ., ., ., , russian banks. what about moves towards russia's _ russian banks. what about moves towards russia's central _ russian banks. what about moves towards russia's central bank? . towards russia's central bank? those are the real deal. now we're about really serious economic and financial cost. sanctioning a central bank is rare and, you know, if done full throated lead could lead to a total breakdown and the ability to engage in monetar

dan: this latest swift move, buck, will it have any impact at this point? this ways you did in your prior line of work in intelligence. you wanted to get into the enemy's heads. does he care at this point? he attacked a city that didn't attack him of 3 million people. even worse. i don't think the swift sanctions affect the energy sector at this point. it doesn't look like he's going to hit the energy sector. >> it's all about the timeline. if he nicks he can take it in two or three weeks. it doesn't matter the impact because they feel they will get back in the financial system quick enough. they are still able to sell energy on the global market which is the primary factor in the russian economy. it is the right move and it should have been done earlier than it was. but if we are serious about this we would have to go after the russian energy sector. and with that would come the pain of inflation and higher prices on everything and people would have to be willing to deal with that in this country and around the world. this is a fight they will continue on

nation's capitol condemning the attack on ukraine and calling for range of swift, severe and crippling sanctions. congressman dan dan crenshaw, i hope president putin suffers immense losses this is barbaric, praying ukrainians fight like hell, may the people be with ukraine. republicans and democrats are calling for putin to be punished. chris murphy tweeting, tonight entire post world war international order sits on a knife's edge if putin does not pay a devastating price for this transgression, our own security will be at risk. some are places the blame squarely on president biden's shoulders. listen. >> on day one for biden presidency, he strengthened putin. he approved the nord stream 2. i served on the arms services committee in congress. i'm very, very clear on what it means to be -- have peace through strepth and joe biden does not understand that, he's never once shown strength when it comes to making decisions to protect this country. >> former president donald trump telling laura, this never would have happened under his leadership. >> why didn't this take place during our administration? it wouldn't h

the nation's capital are condemning the attack on ukraine and calling for swift, severe and crippling sanctions. congressman dan crenshaw, i hope president putin suffers immensz losses this is barbaric, praying ukrainians fight like hell and overcome this. may god be with the innocent people of ukraine. republicans and democrats ark likeare calling for putin to be punished. chris murphy tweeting, tonight entire post world order sits on a knife's edge, if putin does not pay a devastating price for this transgression, our own security will soon be at risk. some are places the blame for turmoil in europe squarely on president biden's shoulders. listen. >> on day one of the biden presidency, he strengthened putin, cancelled keystone pipeline and approved nord stream 2. i'm very clear on what it means to be -- have peace through strength and joe biden does not understand that because he's never shown strength when it comes to making decisions to protect this country. >> brooke: former president donald trump telling laura ingraham this never would have happened under his leadership, listen to this. >> people saying,

swift and severe costs on russia should they invade. joining me now as former cia station chief fox news contributor dan hoffman.for being here. do you expect russia to invade ukraine and what would you see as an impact? >> so, i think certainly for many of us it's hard to imagine that russia would not invade ukraine after all they have 130,000 troops on the border. they have amped up their military exercises it in belarus and the black sea, but at the same time let's remember vladimir putin positioned over 70000 troops on that border back in april, which enabled him to get a summit with president biden. he hasn't gone in yet and what he's doing is extorting the west, extorting nato in the united states for concessions. i think putin is aware of how policy-- how it could be to launch an invasion in terms of civilian casualties in the economic impact on his country. he knows these troops give him leverage and the question is whether the biden administration would agree to a settlement with our throats you know faced with the that could be disadvantageous obviously to ukraine, but to nato as well. maria: i mean, i