Assistant to george w. Bush. Scott, let me start with you, were there echos of the axis of evil speech that president bush spoke about before the war against Saddam Hussein in 2003 . This definitely had shades of that remark and im glad to see that because during the campaign, donald trump ran as something of an isolationist and if you watched todays speech, he took you on a World Tour Of American Priorities and american engagement. If you were expecting donald trump the isolationist you did not get that today. It was a firm and measured speech today, he spoke in clear terms. I was proud to see him call out the programs on petfar and malaria that the United States has invested in. I think he hit all the right notes for his american audience. I think his base will love it. I think a lot of americans agree with his message on reforming the u. N. And some gallup polling conducted earlier this year, only 37 of americans felt the u. N. Was doing a good job and
60 thought it was doing a bad
So theyre scrambling. Theyre trying to figure this out as well, chuck. No indication as to whether the president has been briefed on this. Hes about to hold an event with sheriffs. In fact im told he just entered and so well try to get more questions to him about all of this. But this is unprecedented, as you say, the fact we have someone inside sounding the alarm like that. Thats what it is, someone sounding the alarm. The call is coming from inside the house. By the way, i should make a point, no Press Briefing today, no Press Briefing yesterday. How many are we up to how many Press Briefings have we had in the last six weeks . We havent had one in two weeks and we had less this summer. I think then its typical, for the record. So its becoming sort of the diminishing Press Briefing. Now, they would argue, hey, look, you had four different chances to ask the president questions today. That is true, and well take it. But of course shouted questions, yeah. Exactly, exactly. Shouted ques
the kremlin is actually thinking this morning. president putin has a press conference, his first in over a month, with the prime minister of hungary this morning. we ll watch to see if he says anything that changes the diplomatic path, that pushes it forward, that pushes it backward. but right now there really isn t a whole lot of movement on the diplomacy front. you saw yesterday those fireworks between the u.s. side and the russian side at the united nations. they were standing off against each one another, pointing fingers at one another. the united states saying that russia has created this dangerous, this urgent situation along the russia ukraine border. and we should note that the u.s. ambassador to the united nations also gave some new information, saying that russia plans to expand its troop presence in belarus to more than 30,000
were to stand, it would never raise the amount of revenue they project because behavior would be changed to avoid the tax. bret: right. i mentioned with senator romney, chuck, the amt started out very, very narrow the alternative minimum tax. then suddenly broadened as the need for more revenue increased. well, i tend i tend to think bret: go ahead. i m sore my audio went out. i tend to think even the projections that i have heard for this are not very substantial. 250 billion over 10 years isn t a whole lot of the 1.75 trillion they are now talking about. and president biden has emphatically said this would be 100 percent paid for. and i think those words may come back to haunt him. bret: we will follow it okay, panel. when we come back, tomorrow s
practice. clinicians already are working with people across the u.s. to make sure that they get their boosters, including if they had moderna initially or if they had j&j, so over the next couple days, we ll clean this all up, harmonize all of these various recommendations and have a single consistent policy. speaking of harmonizing, the last time the fda went through this process of approving a booster for pfizer, there were resignations and disagreements and reversals. what are you expecting as they look through the steps of moderna and j&j, because the request for moderna is narrower here for specific populations to get the booster. correct. and it s consistent with what eventually happened with pfizer. it s because there isn t a whole lot of data suggesting that moderna loses a lot of its efficacy, and so they actually have even gone with half a dose. for j&j, my expectation is that while j&j may be approved for a second dose, the fda also will say that your second dose should