any state. the president hasn t been traveling around the country all that much. a lot of his events are here in washington. we have heard repeatedly from the administration, the white house, that the president will pivot to the agenda, we heard that more earlier this year. a lot of that is covid, but it s also he has a lot of his attention is being occupied by ukraine. what they have had tried to do is mesh the two issues. i have the president and how he got into talking about again oside was blaming putin for inflation, higher gas prices, things like that. they re still giving it a try. that s where you see the intersection of the ukraine issue. part of the struggle is it s hard to the polls show the people don t feel good about
what the president is doing. it s like he s wear a strip of velcro, every negative headline is sticking to him, whether it s fair or not. carol, thank you. let me bring in admiral stavridis. jim, it does seem as if the president s rhetoric is much farther ahead than or policy. is that a fair critique? it is, chuck. i m glad it is. i think the president has consistently been ahead of the curve in call out what s going on in all of its awful functionality. i think the more he does that, the more the system will work to catch up with him. there s a part of this that s very uncomfortable to match, when you hear, if we believe they re implying war crimes or genocide, and yet we re staying on the sidelines as they regroup to continue to commit war crimes
the left can try and cancel me, i don t care, but here in alabama, we re going to enforce the law. i can t believe i have to disrupt this, and breaking news from new york city and the subway situation with pete williams. pete, what do you got? we re checking out reports that frank james has been arrested in manhattan. law enforcement officials tell our affiliate, wnbc, that an arrest was made at st. marks and 1st avenue a short time ago, and the suspect was involved in some type of altercation, possibly a stabbing and has been taken to the local police precinct for prosecuting, and authorities believe it s frank james, the man they were looking for since 8:30 yesterday morning when shots were fired aboard a new york subway train as it was headed into manhattan. the gun has been traced to him. his van was found and
they re never going to stop asking for stuff they have to. we understand that, but at the same time the ukrainians are having expectations and then, just in the way that our reporting went, you can imagine how they might feel. they think they re getting something, then they re not, and it goes back to this debate about what exactly is the right thing to provide to meet this moment. we re also told those helicopters could be in a later package, but for now they re not going into this package. that tells you they don t know exactly where the line is, oz there are not entirely agreement there. the president s words show that, too. no, you can see it. it really is something that i want to get at and see if there s something there. on this issue of balancing ukraine and the domestic struggles that the who you is doing, i sat down with ron klain on monday for an extended podcast. carol, i want to play something
were told that those had been pulled out, so i think this underscores how the debade one the administration is still a very live debate. it s sort of a head scratcher. the president used the word genocide and then we seem to have having a debate about what weapons to send. and jake sullivan told you a sunday that he and the joint chiefs of staff were on call with the ukrainians going through a list item by item prioritizing things. the posture from the administration is they are doing everything they can. now, they have said privately to us that they have conveyed no planes and no tanks, but if you re the ukrainians, look, there s some level of you talk to an administration official,