NBC Host Gets SCHOOLED!!

Check it out, this NBC reporter gets totally humiliated by the Treasury Secretary. If the point of the sanctions was to stop funding the Russian war machine, why is the administration effectively rewarding Russia now?

Again, Kristen, you're missing the point. Which is better? Does Russia get more money if oil goes to 150 and they get 70% of that, that's 105, or if oil stays below 100. So they're getting less money. Our analysis shows, our analysis shows that the maximum extra amount that Russia could get would be $2 billion, which is one day of the Russian Federation's budget.

But understood, but they wouldn't have gotten any of that with the sanctions in place.

I don't know, whoever does your research, you should get rid of. I don't know, whoever does your research, you should get rid of.

Because they don't know how to do math.