process. if the american people knew about it, they d get more in tune with pollices and start watching a lot more closely. maria: yeah. i mean, look, it s clear that voters are getting smarter about everything, don. look at this advantage in 2022, congressional midterm graphic. republicans with 47%, they saw say democrats have 44%. do you think anything has changed as a result of this most recent supreme court draft opinion leaking? has anything changed in terms of the advantage that the gop holds in 2022? as the biden administration comes out with disinformation board to try to get ahead of free speech, frankly. yeah, i mean, i think it s more of a panic tackic, right? they can t run on the economy, they can t run on jobs, they can t run on energy, we re on the brink of war with russia, china s flying sorties over taiwan. this is democrat policy. everything that you re seeing
the future but we have heard many times leaders and our own from time to time that promise us quick little wars not going to go far and contained and will be in and out and tragically we know from history and world war i and world war ii that is not always the case so i think the stakes could not be higher and hearing from president biden shortly to explain why the stakes are so high. there are times in history where the world is a tinderbox and we are in that time right now. notwithstanding a military capability and action that the united states takes in and around ukraine, we have a bunch things right now. we have been having missiled filed by north korea on a regular basis. we have china flying sorties
not be safe for u.s. interest. regional powers have a habit of becoming global threats especially when they work in concert as russia, china and iran are already doing. now, we have russia, mark, in ukraine. we have china acting, you know, flying sorties over taiwan. and have you iran sitting at the table in vienna close to a deal, it seems, with u.s. and western powers. yeah. you know, it s interesting. russia did china a favor by delaying its invasion but they may have done taiwan a favor by screwing it up so badly. this war has not gone any stretch as vladimir putin planned it. in fact we know the ukrainians have captured the russian warplanes and they were supposed to be done by march 6th. three days from now. they are not going in kyiv three days if at all. and if they do succeed in getting kyiv. there is going to be insurgency in ukraine going to last years. going to be sending russian soldiers back in body bags. going to make the soviet
round-the-clock images of flying sorties, combat video of the targets being struck and so forth. we ll see if that continues. phil black and ben wedeman, thank you very much, gentlemen. we appreciate it. you re watching cnn newsroom. another controversy, now major sponsors are calling for fifa to ask seth blatter to step down. i m only in my 60 s. i ve got a nice long life ahead.