first place, the economy a tailspin but political calls it a win somehow someway joe biden is back in the game after enduring a brutal year dominated by economic aid, setbacks and approval ratings. the president is on the verge of a turnaround that the white house believes could salvage his summer and alter the trajectory of the presidency. all he needs to do now is close. there was also this victor left on cable news yesterday. appearance because a huge inflation reduction act claimant deal was announced yesterday genuinely good for a whole bunch of reasons. there is some good news tonight for president biden. i know, we haven t been hearing that much. inflation reduction act or build back better 2.0 we do a lot of good for the country. it is the cherry on top of an overall good week for the democratic party for the president and the country. she loves the super bowl and you wake up and my team won the super bowl. live griff jenkins where they will never win a super
The fact is that we dont need a direction from the president to the intelligence chiefs to be on guard against russian interference with our elections, number one. Number two, as far as what the president says on any given day, frankly he says a lot of things. He is, i think, campaigning against impeachment rather than saying anything that is designed to affect the outcome of the case. So i kind of brush that off. But to go back to your first point, that we dont need the president for the intelligence community. Thats a little counterintuitive. We expect the leadership from the president to be of paramount importance when were dealing with threats like this, which to the democracy is basically existential. So for him to not be on the same page seems to be highly counterproductive. Its counterproductive, but it is not at all necessarily critical. These intelligence agencies, particularly in an administration where statements
get made all the time, i think are pretty much doing their job
and you talk about chips earlier, without chips taiwan is effectively the second largest producer of chips. if we lose taiwan, literally we have no chance of winning the next battle s. todd: one thing that is worrying me and i want your opinion because you are a cybersecurity expert, is china perching stomach purchasing a lot of land in the united states and not random farmland that there is no use for. very important farmland again connected to our food supply but even worse in the areas close to military bases and other strategically sensitive locations. how worried are you from a cybersecurity perspective? it is very concerning. i keep struggling as to why the leadership is letting china slowly but surely take little bites of our property, but also, getting access to the closest locations to some of the american air force bases
have to be mindful of the fact that this is going to be very difficult for the ukranians. we re going to see an increase in the death of civilians and we ll see more instability on the part of vladimir putin. what that means for the united states and the western world is that we have to continue to work to isolate putin and to make absolute sure that he feels so squeezed that he has no option but to pull back on this and deal with the consequences. michael, we are seeing an increase, according to our colleague alex marquardt on the ground there on strikes on informational targets, and even ordering civilians to move away from those targets. we have talked so much about u.s. and nato involvement and the restrictions in complications there. from a cybersecurity perspective, are there things that can be done? sure. there are certainly things that can be done to provide cybersecurity assistance to the ukranian government and to
get made all the time, i think are pretty much doing their jobs without regard to what the president may be saying on a day to day basis. although coats did say in the past, the director of national intelligence. you of course know that. that he didn t have a big plan ready to go to fight from a cybersecurity perspective because he needed the president to come to him and say, you need to do this. so it s not as simple as just independent authority. it s it may not be as simple as independent authority, but the fact is there is planning going on inside the department of homeland security, inside the national security agency, inside the fbi, inside all of these agencies. they don t, i think, need necessarily a mother may i from the president. that s politics. let s move to law because we know why the president doesn t like talking about russian interference because he hates the probe. he sees the probe as being about him. he believes that it delegitimizes him. he doesn t want any