James Lankford: “If we could put sanctions on the countries that are still…”

“The focus was a sanctions bill on Russian oil sales and natural gas sales to countries that are actually buying it. They know that they're actually funding the war against Ukraine. If we could put sanctions on the countries that are still buying Russian oil and natural gas, it would shut off the flow of money going into Russia. which would shut off their arms supplies to be able to attack Ukrainians. That was the focus that Lindsey had. Lindsey believed that he could bring resolution to this and he was working very hard to get it done.” (08:51–09:00)

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