somebody who obviously comes out of the labor movement and can identify with all of the leaders who were arguing for some pretty simple things in this contract. i think if you look at it, you know, they wanted some paid sick time, they wanted to be able to go to the doctor and not be criticized for it or docked for it. so marty walsh could get into the details and he was the right guy. and then they have pete buttigieg working on contingency plans. but this is like the economic and political sweet spot for biden. rail guy. he s obviously amtrak joe. when he talked just now about the actual physical backbone of the country, it made me smile because i think that he thinks that way and it is true. i mean, we don t all you and i don t think that much about the importance of freight rail, it seems sort of old fashioned, but it is the critical backbone 6 of moving all the things he said. chlorine for water, coal for electricity plants, and food,
nord stream 2 pipeline will flow a lot of gas from russia to germany to keep the lights on, does putin have scholz by the you know what. he definitely does. the germans will not commit to turning it off or not starting it up if there s invasion. germans are talking about exemptions from sanctions u.s. may implement if there s an invasion of ukraine. germans have shut down nuclear plants, and coal fired electricity plants. they need russian power and especially in the middle of the winter. i think we are looking at macron who has a better relationship with putin, putin trusts him, and macron is pushing both to get russia involved in europe as a european nation and to stop pushing russia towards china. that s what the u.s. should be doing if it had a serious foreign policy. john: interesting that macron is beginning to emerge as a
coal-fire electricity plants. nato has been divided. we ve seen nato members, european leaders meeting with russia separately. the french convened meetings with the germans and the french and russians without the united states. faulttin achieved something here dividing nato to a certain point. ukraine is not a nato member. we re not going to send american troops into a country like that which would start a nuclear possibly a nuclear war with russia when ukraine isn t a member of nato. it s a difficult position. we had to stand our ground on self-determination and the rule of law but no troops could go into ukraine. very interesting you point that out, i want to bring you back into the conversation, brett. there are american forces in ukraine at this very hour. the administration acknowledging that. they are clearly in harm s way as long as they re on the ground. if you re advising this administration, what would be the number one bit of advice you might give them? well, i think o
giving up oil and coal-fired electricity plants putting germany at the russian one - mercy of the russians. it has to produce its own power. it will not be replaced by american natural gas. stop feeling the russian military regime by buying international gas. gentlemen, thank you very much. alicia: the us is announcing a third round of aid to ukraine and that story from the pentagon next.