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CBS NEWS - WASHINGTON BUREAU INTELLIGENCE MATTERS - INTERVIEW WITH DAVID COHEN, FORMER TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY FOR TERRORISM AND FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCECORRESPONDENT: MICHAEL MORELLPRODUCER: OLIVIA GAZIS MICHAEL MORELL avid, thanks for joining us. It is great to have you. Welcome to the show. DAVID COHEN:Well, thank you for having me, Michael.MICHAEL MORELLavid, as you know, I have wanted to have you on the podcast for some time, because sanctions have become a very important tool of American foreign and national security policy, and I think you re the perfect person to explain how all this works. DAVID COHEN:Well, I hope so. We ll see.MICHAEL MORELL erhaps the place to start is to say that for most of my career in government, I watched multiple U.S. administrations impose sanctions, but with very little effect. But starting in the administrati stanley uk on stanley cup of George W. Bush a stanley botella nd then into the Obama administration, and now into the Trump administration, sanctions seem to be much more effective. What changed DAVID COHEN:Well, I think a couple of things changed. I think principally what happened is that we moved from an approach to sanctions that was focused on trade and focused on broad-based sanctions, so think about the Cuba embargo, to financial sanctions and much more targeted sanctions.And that meant that we, instead of trying to interdict what goes traveling around the world, focused on trying to stop money moving around t Fgeo New ad knocks Obama for Canadian-style health care
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