sleep in their offices, probably waking them up. will: parades too. rachel: those are industry. we have to get to the bottom of it. it brings up the juxtaposition here, january 6th trials and colbert s team in the halls of congress. pete: the american flag was being raised above us. rachel: how appropriate. pete: we are surrounded by 7 rate american flags on sixth avenue. the president s approval rating continues to decline. president biden s latest approval rating, 39% according to walpole by usa today and suffolk university. when asked the direction of the united states 71% said the united states was on the wrong track. maybe 16% or less saying we are headed in the right direction.
will: they are historically terrible, a reflection of the sentiment in this country. this moment feels i wasn t alive in 1978 but feels like a malaise economically, culturally, securitywise. it is important president biden head to delaware at 11:00 am yesterday morning for another long weekend. before he did he was on the white house lawn and wandered up to her few reporters. rachel: it was will: here is what happens. president biden: the exorbitant profits, number one. number 2, i contacted them to ask what their plans are and to give any suggestions they have. they have 9000 leases.
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too late to do anything about it? one of the interesting things about the administration giving information about what russia is going do next, there is the potential for russia to use weapons of mass destruction. either chemical, biological, or nuclear. and the administration has said that s a potential. so it s attempted to preempt the use of these weapons. but i also think we ve heard the president say if this, in fact, is done, that russia will pay a very high price for doing so. i think this would cross a very interesting line where nato could become more involved in preventing the use of these kinds of weapons of mass destruction. but it would also put russia on the horns of a dilemma of being the first force to use these kind of weapons in a conventional war in history since world war ii. so it again further exacerbates the fact that russia is using
communist anymore. instead they represent an authoritarian model. the problem that the chinese are facing right now is that their new authoritarian partner may be viewed around the world as a complete pariah. and the question is how closely do they want to be tied to him? and that s what made the phone call with president biden which lasted nearly two hours yesterday so interesting because biden was making the case you don t want to be associated with this guy, and you don t want to suffer the sanctions that he s suffering. all right. david sanger, we ll leave it there. thank you so much for your time tonight. thank you, pam. great to be with you. and up next, after a dozen interviews with white house staff and lawmakers, cnn is getting a behind-the-scenes look at president biden s strategy for handling vladimir putin. and we re learning it involves cutting him off literally. we re going to explain right after this break.