feel. this advice has circulated among top biden allies, but it s unclear whether senior officials in the white house are listening to that advice or agree with axelrod, i certainly do. neil ferguson laid it out perfectly because he pointed out after carter s disastrous date of the union address, reagan was surgical in response. i find nothing wrong with the american people and the reason that resonated with book voters was because there really was a clear causal link between the foreign policy failures and inflation and feeling it in your home. carter delivered a speech between two major geopolitical disasters, the iranian revolution and the invasion of afghanistan, just like here the botched afghanistan withdrawal and now the russian invasion of ukraine. carter s approval rating has touched an all-time low of 20% in june of 79. he never got back up above 40% as his campaign unfolded. and inflation, which stood at 5.2% in the months he was
the legislative creation of the russian nuclear agency . back to the european , we will see. meredith walker, we appreciate it . the beau biden foundation is reportedly only spending a fraction of its fundraising money on the charities for which its intended purpose. the group brought in $3.9 million in 2020 544,000 and towardsprotecting children from abuse . 932,000 spent on other items including biden allies and the nonprofit purported mission to help kids. the new york city fire department unionsare calling for eric adams to lift vaccine mandates for every city worker . and it s lifted the mandate for broadway performance last week. the union says they support that move but they want to see an extended period that are demanding a meeting with eric adams to discuss up to 500 fdny workers remain unvaccinated. now to march madness. nova winning the regional
everybody in this administration virtually to a person is a former obama official. and what they are seeing is this presidency works just like the obama presidency and they know how that works. they put those two things together and they think now s the time. kayleigh: you are exactly right. your lessons were oso poignant first that the adults was not back was one of the lessons that you mentioned. that s clearly the case in afghanistan. but another line that really struck me and this is from your firsthand knowledge, you said that you have talked with scores of foreign officials from friendly nations who are absolutely gob smacked by biden blunders to afghanistan to ukraine. the allies are noticing he doesn t know what he is doing. i think ukraine is really will very very telling. when you talk to the central european countries, for example in the middle of the crisis i
have talked to the major biden allies. 20 plus countries and nato said what? we don t count? because you talked to france and germany and its and u.k., you think we don t matter? and we re the ones standing in front of russia. we are the ones, you know, dealing with the little green men from russia. we are getting cyberattacked. we are the ones that have to dealing with millions of refugees from ukraine and you didn t talk to us? so, look, i cannot find any friend in the world who is compel tent in this president s leadership. ironically, they are confident in america because they saw how strong this country was four years before this so there is great confidence in the country. there is not great confidence in our president. kayleigh: yeah, that s right. we only have about 30 seconds here. you mentioned congress is not brain dead when it comes to defense spending what did you mean by that? i think we got to give congress a lot of credit. this was the worst managed
understand there on their own. progressives who sidelined this bipartisan bill until the social spending is finished are signaling the goalposts could move again. we are working towards it but of course deadlines can shift. keep five key biden allies. his leadership will prove to have been successful. i m optimistic by the end of the year we will look back at what happened in october and november and say it set the stage for a very positive 2022. treasury secretary janet yellen admitted this weekend there s a limit to what democrats can spend at some hard trade-offs will need to be made. president biden today downplaying all the drama saying despite attacks and misinformation the american people support his plan. bret. bret: more with the panel. jackie hanger, thanks. hillary clinton is not leaving the political stage anytime