iran will remove 27 cameras that have been announcing nuclear sites for the international community. i ll talk to iea chief rafael mariano about what happens next. average u.s. gas prices hit a record $5 a gallon. overall inflation hits 8.6%. 40 year high. consumers are pessimistic about the state of the u.s. economy. what does the former federal reserve chair ben bernanke think? i ll ask him. but first, here s my take. we are now living in a totally new era. that is what the 99-year-old henry kissinger said commenting on the russian invasion of ukraine. president biden vividly outlined the stakes. he wrote, if russia does not pay a heavy right for its actions, it will send a message to other would-be aggressors that they too can seiz e territory and sub yous subjugate others and catastrophic consequences the world over. in times like these, it seemed appropriate that the secretary of state antony blinken would deliver a major policy address, which he did late last month. e
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Hes an msnbc and msnbc National Affairs analyst. Im like madonna at this point. I gave you one name. Some day youll thank me. Well talk about that later. Daily beast politics editor sam stein is here and my friend steve schmidt. Were going to boil you down to one name, too. Take us through the significance of this sort of i think its just a side show. People have told me that from emmet flood to don mcgahn to Rudy Giuliani to everyone who is now departed the president s team, no one thinks the president can survive an interview with the special counsel. The president cant survive twitter. Thats right, special counsel is now looking at his tweets. Every tweet has a misstatement or a lie, so theyre absolutely right to be concerned that if the president were to go into an interview with incredibly well prepared prosecutors who have not just the president s tweets and his own statements, as Rudy G
america, these cultural issues don t have as much traction and old fashioned economic issues still do have a lot of traction? i think that s right and also, very telling of this anti-incumbent wave. you re seeing voters turn to anybody but bolsonaro, the current president. you have this anti-incumbent. strangely, the anti-incumbent who spent the whole life and has been president of brazil before in the form of lula. so i think it s less about the policies laid out in many elections, very few policies actually being put on the table. it s more about someone who s coming in and promising to change things. that s why when you look at, when you go to mexico, there s just so much resentment of him among the kind of business community and even in kind of the mainstream center, i would say, but you point out that in his own way, he s very trump-like, explain what you
reformed legislation, but we don t see the democratic party making that into a case yet. everyone around this table is too young to remember a thing i remember vividly which is the 1994 midterms which is speak for yourself. you re too young to remember. i m the only old man old enough to remember this. that election when republicans took back control of the house the first time in 40 years, it was the combination of anti-incumbent, anti-clinton feeling with the fact that newt gingrich had put together whatever you want to say about the substance of it, it seemed like he had a positive agenda for the republican party. in that environment, the corruption of people like dan rostenkowski, if you go back and look at his climbs in light of today, it s comical. they re like parking tickets. pales in comparison. you could beat jim right and speaker of the house tom foley, even though he was not corrupt, you could beat people in that