it is something where the collective west has got the extremely good experience of building the consensus. and now in a global world, where you cannot take decisions only on your own, on behalf your country when it comes to covid, to energy crisis, even to military force. we have learned how to make the consensus, and how to make collectively the decisions. but what putin hadn t learned is to be part of some consensus. broader consensus. and until he understands that he should be a player together with everybody, this could change the situation. you say putin is not part of a consensus, but he has got friends, hasn t he? we have just seen russian troops go in as part of the collective security treaty organisation, into kazakhstan to help president tokayev there, sent a couple of thousand troops. he gets on very well with alexader lucashenko in belarus this is not somebody without friends
ask? there are so many questions. jose, thank you for having me. he answered almost more than 00 questions and no questions about immigration although immigration has been a major crisis for this government, and he campaigned big on immigration reform, so question number one, why hasn t he been able to deliver on that promise of immigration reform. why hasn t he used his political capital during this first year to make sure an immigration solution goes through congress and question number two, why hasn t this government been able to reduce the number of immigrants coming in from central america? this administration has argued that we have to attack the root causes of immigration, in central america and that s true, and vice president kamala harris has been working on this but not only we haven t seen a reduction in the number of immigrants, we ve soon an increase since last year.
if they accept, as you say, that they are going to stick with this? what can they do to mitigate the challenges that families are facing? i think there s going to have to be some quid pro quo. if the national insurance rise is going to go ahead, they must think about how they can help families with energy bills. i m surprised there hasn t been an announcement already, seeing as we re going to get the news of how much prices are going to go up so imminently. but on the other side of things, look at wealth taxes. we ve had 100 millionaires turn up at the virtual davos summit writing a letter saying that they think wealth taxes should be looked at more by government. that s great, but with all of the research we ve done at the financial times into wealth taxes, when you say to people, what level do you think the wealth tax should come in, they generally always say something that is slightly more than the amount of money being offered. jeff bezos is like, 1 trillion plus! the kind of thing
the family of one of the hostages. he was in touch with herfamily. her elderly parents in arizona, demanding that they pay or that they raise millions and millions of euros to pay a ransom in order to secure the release of their daughter. so, he admitted for the first time publicly that in our first interview. and he has since pleaded guilty, hasn t he? he has since pleaded guilty and admitted all charges in the united states. our final conversation with el shafee elsheikh and alexanda kotey had a slightly different aim. we were there with the story of one person in mind, the family of david haines. and we thought that it would be a legitimate and an important editorial exercise to try to seek from him the truth. if he had it, if either
got the extremely good experience of building the consensus. and now in a global world, where you cannot take decisions only on your own, on behalf your country when it comes to covid, to energy crisis, even to military force. we have learned how to make the consensus, and how to make collectively the decisions. but what putin hadn t learned is to be part of some consensus. broader consensus. and until he understands that he should be a player together with everybody, this could change the situation. you say putin is not part of a consensus, but he has got friends, hasn t he? we have just seen russian troops go in as part of the collective security treaty organisation, into kazakhstan to help president tokayev there, sent a couple of thousand troops. he gets on very well with alexander lukashenko in belarus this is not somebody without friends in the region.