US President Donald Trump really understands economic power and will likely impose sanctions on Russia, former US Deputy Special Envoy Ellie Cohanim says.
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00:00Let's start with President Trump considering sanctioning and imposing tariffs on Russia.
00:06What's prompted this and is it actually likely to go ahead?
00:10Well, first, thank you for having me on.
00:13I am convinced that President Trump will likely have to levy sanctions against Russia.
00:19And this is something that President Trump spoke about on the campaign trail.
00:24It's something that we saw President Trump very much take action in his first administration
00:29where President Trump really uses the levers of economic power to affect policy that he
00:40likes to have happen in the world.
00:43President Trump really understands how to use economic power and use the United States
00:49power to achieve what he wants to see get done in the world.