economic repercussions that would come down the pipe. miles and miles of trucks stuck in traffic, log jams, if trucks cannot move that means train roads will break down. and that means millions of dollars in losses for companies. shipping delays for all of us. have a challenger in the upcoming governor s race said, this quote, it s going to be very bad for the texas economy. it s going to be very bad for the national national economy. governor abbott walked back the policy, after reaching a deal in for second states, which share the texas border. the damage has been done, clearly this debacle is not good news for him. especially in the year that he is up for reelection. but do abbott republican supporters care? i guess we find out in november. joining me now is my great
right now. you look at mariupol and odesa, and that entire region right now i think is where putin wants to go next. they have surrounded the town of mariupol and they need more equipment today. they need it right now. they don t need bureaucrats in washington trying to worry about how they might offend putin, they have got to worry about what the world is going to think if biden doesn t help zelenskyy. brian: ukraine s ambassador in washington, d.c. met with general atomics, the maker of the reaper drones and predator drones. trying to work out a deal to get them to use them. can they do that without the government s permission? well, there s a number of things that can be done that is being done. we re trying to break some of the log jams. that s one of the reasons we went to poland and romania to meet with prime minister, defense minister, talked about some of the things that they are getting now that are working and some of the things that they need that they don t have yet. ag
year-over-year in some areas of the country. you are talking about airline flights higher across the board. as well as food, energy, and shelter. one item to keep an eye on here is used car sales were up again but analysts say that people are slowing down the buying of used cars and that s also an issue because of the supply chain problems that peter just mentioned. shanghai locked down a number of american companies, unable to open their factories like tesla, apple, also taking a look at what s going on in china and reacting. as a result we ll see an issue of log jams of products that we need. so inflation is worse than expected on a year-over-year basis, 8 1/2% higher versus 8.4%. but the core number seems to be what markets are focused on and why we have a rise in the stock