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i think it will increase security in the baltic sea region in europe and for the alliance. let s talk about the opposition coming from turkey. the leaders today, they seemed as john hardwood noted, they seemed confident these memberships will be granted and this will go through. you also think that this will get ironed out, the concerns raised by turkey. why are you confident of this? well, i ve worked with our turkish friends over the years. i remember being a young civil servant of the european council in helsinki in december 1999 when we actually opened doors for the turkish eu negotiations. i also remember establishing friends of peace mediation with foreign minister at the time ahmed davtolo in the u.n., and i ve always had trust in the relationship that we ve had. now these things happen, they re domestic issues here. you know, one of the things that wasn t mentioned in your piece was that there s also an issue with f-35s coming from the u.s.
to solve. there s that much president biden can do about it. there s not much he can do to curb inflation and not much he can do to stop migrants reach the southern border or make people get shots that would hasten the end of the coronavirus pandemic. there s nothing that we can do act it, right? the democrats mid-term message is we tried and we can t do it. that s a walker advertisements to getting republicans elected to the house and the senate as well. that s a good attempt by john hardwood to try to spin things to be the better for biden. even in that piece, harwood cites republican and democratic economists that talk about how the 1.9 trillion plan that they passed purely partisanly when joe biden first got into office, the american rescue plan as they like to call it, fueled the inflation crisis we re looking at.
yeah, because i m thinking about my future, my daughters. what will happen to them? if they kill me, two daughters will be without mother. joining me now, cnn correspondent john hardwood and former adviser to george h.w. bush and john mccain, and he s executive producer of the circus . gentleman, good evening. the stories are really just unbelievable coming out of afghanistan. john, the president is back at the white house tonight while his administration tries to contain the fallout over the chaos and the fall of kabul. he is going to do an interview with abc news tomorrow and he s sure to be press on what went so wrong. what do you think we ll hear? well, i would expect that george stephanopoulos will press him on why it was that the united states was caught so unaware by the rapid collapse of the afghan government and security forces. president biden has said in his