CNN’s Kevin Liptak: Trump Says that New Sanctions on Russia Is ‘Absolutely’ Possible

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Trump also had I mean really some of his sharpest words yet for for Russian president Vladimir Putin. I mean, what did he say on that front?
>> Yeah. And this is quite significant. The president voicing perhaps the strongest frustration to date at what Putin has been doing in Ukraine. And you‘ll remember just over this weekend, Russia launching more than 300 drones and missiles on dozens of Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv. Perhaps as many as 12 people dead. The president really voicing frustration directly at Putin, suggesting that the Russian leader had changed. Listen to what the president said.
>> I‘m not happy with what Putin is doing. He‘s killing a lot of people, and I don‘t know what the hell happened to Putin. I‘ve known him a long time. I‘ve always gotten along with him. But he‘s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don‘t like it at all. Okay, we‘re in the middle of talking, and he‘s shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don‘t like it at all.
>> Now, it‘s only a week ago tomorrow that the president and Putin spoke by telephone. Afterwards, President Trump said that he thought that Putin was serious about trying to reach a peace deal. He said that Ukraine and Russia would start direct negotiations to try and come up with a cease fire, essentially saying that the U.S. would back away from a mediating role. He also told European leaders on that day that he would not go along, at least for now. On new sanctions on Russia. But the president saying something very different this evening when he was asked whether new sanctions were possible, he said absolutely. And so the president clearly very frustrated that the pace of these cease fire talks is not proceeding. Perhaps as quickly as he would like. Omar.