country. the ukrainian people, the ukrainian military, had another idea, and here we are, seven, eight months into it. well, joining us now, democratic senator, mark warner of virginia. he s chairman of the senate intelligence committee, and to willie s point, senator, we were talking earlier with admiral kirby about this. it seems vladimir putin has been in a corner, and everyone talks about what the off-ramp is, how this ends. obviously, most people would like this to end with russia moving back out of ukraine. and yet he continues to push himself more into a corner, almost without indiscriminately, without any thought for himself about an off-ramp, with a war that is going terribly for him. how do you deal with a leader that doesn t seem to care that he s in a corner? carefully. you know, this is a guy that s been an autocratic leader for 20-plus years. in the covid environment, his number of advisers he s talking to gets smaller and smaller.
good thing. that stability puts us in a strong position to tackle what is clearly a problem, inflation. arthel: so what is considered more moderation, and do you agree with the president s theory? you know, i do think we re going to go into a more level setting with respect to jobs. if you look at pre-covid, president trump was averaging about 200,000 jobs plus or minus, and president biden post-covid has been averaging north of 400,000. and that s in a situation where we have, for the most part, brought all the jobs back that we lost during the covid environment, almost 10 million. so i would say we are going to level off, and i heard some of your, you know, your people earlier speak about the participation rate. it is still down about 1% where we were pre-covid, but it s also up 1% from the low. so we re about 62%. so we are bringing people back into the work force. and the last thing i would say,
court. the president, the vice president and judge jackson are due to speak at that event any moment. mj lee is right there at the white house for us. set the scene for us. john, this is certainly about to be a marking of an historic moment here at the white house. there are hundreds of people behind me here on the south lawn, and we expect the president, vice president kamala harris, and judge ketanji brown jackson to step out any moment. in the audience we expect to see family members of the judge. we expect to see lawmakers. we have spotted a number of cabinet officials as well as importantly, members of the senate who voted to confirm judge jackson yesterday. they have all been invited as well. now for president biden, this is also going to be a celebration of the fulfilling of a major campaign promise, and that, of course, is to put the first black woman on the supreme court. now i have to set the scene here in terms of just the covid environment because we have seen
simply squeezed out of the market. i know that s been a concern. what do the latest numbers in 2021 tell you about the potential for first-time buyers in 2022? well, you know, the covid environment, this terrible situation which flipped our lives upside down has completely changed the dynamics for real estate. people want larger sized homes. and also, the office workers don t have to commute five days a week. maybe they have much more flexible schedule. so, they re going out to the suburbs or the next county. and for the first-time buyers, i would recommend widening their geographic search. rather than hone in on a certain location, workers have flexibility to work from home. as you can see, the next county where homes are more affordable, home buildings can be more easily done, so people should consider more options. so, if you own a home, you re
the tv. it was just the red carpet getting out of there. will: you could get a couple hours sleep. lawrence: just a couple. i got four hours in which is basic. carley you know this, if you can get four in i m good. carley: lawrence, he is so cute. he does wear his pete hegseth, does, too. you can tell when they have just woken up and recently you were on the 21st floor and you had the biggest sleepy face and the whole show team and i were talking about it. lawrence: you called me out on it you said lawrence, you look like you just woke up, brother i said yeah, i did. carley: all right. see you in a bit. brian: let s talk about what s going on. right now in this country a fascinating period because the white house is sitting on its hands democratic states are realizing we can t do this when it comes to the covid environment. if you see nationwide the cases are dropping off a cliff like israel said. like the u.k. told us, how south africa warned us that this comes in hard.