intelligence, you have to reach out and know where you want to go, but it takes a lot of firepower, once you can identify a gap and you have to exploit that. these kinds of operations take time. so i don t know what the pace is supposed to look like. many would label this as a desultory pace, it s very slow. i m not concerned that this is offkilter or offpace. the ukrainians are doing it at a tempo that they can sustain. and by the way, as i understand it, you need three-to-one advantage to attack defended positions. the ukrainian president just last week attached some blame for this on the slow delivery of weapons systems from the west and made the point that you get those systems, and you have to train ukrainian forces up on them. and that gave russia time to dig in further. do you think that s a fair criticism? i don t. i don t. look, let s just state, president zelenskyy is a churchillian kind of leader. that s great.
have difficult answers in terms of the way the school handle that? they had all these procedures but did not seem to follow many of them. i think that is right, mike. let s let the report become the report. looks like the training failed and it looks like we are asking a lot of police officers to run into the fire. but they did not do with their 78 minutes went by. does not look good in times of crisis things go completely offkilter. i think we have got to again, i bet matt and i could create a lot of us today but find some new solutions but make incremental progress forget head of each party s respective and traditional talking points here. i just got out of four months across asia we are admired around the world her ability to solve problems except for problems like this one. we seem to get stuck in a politics and not bring common sense solutions to began to fix this. matthew bassett, david morey, thanks for joining us have a wonderful day gentlemen. thank you mike.
starting. is that talking point working, that this gigantic bill is going to call inflation somehow, how is that going to work? i don t know. it certainly, they made two arguments, one that it costs 0 and i began to the national deficit, that hasn t been accepted by the public and that this, passing the trillion dollars in spending will team inflation. i don t think the public were most economists believe that is the case. the other problem for the administration is they have been dismissing and mocking concerns about inflation. and psaki from the white house press briefing room talking about supply chain crazies, that these were high end problems. they ve been offkilter in terms of their knowledge but in terms
that never shied away from topics like drug abuse, sexuality and depression. he was immensely talented and deeply emotional, but reed could also be a difficult person to be close to. todd haynes s film explores this contradiction through those that knew him best. he was complicated, man. he was full of all kinds of protective barriers. somebody who felt insecurity, and he s sharing it with us in the most direct way possible, which is in his work. reed s work and that of his band endures, speaking to people who don t quite fit in and prefer to embrace life with its rough edges intact. emerging from a pandemic in which we all felt disconnected and offkilter, haynes believes the velvet underground also resonates for a new reason. for us, it was the movie we had been making underground during lockdown in this pandemic.
and he s sharing it with us in the most direct way possible, which is in his work. reed s work and that of his band endures, speaking to people who don t quite fit in and prefer to embrace life with its rough edges intact. emerging from a pandemic in which we all felt disconnected and offkilter, haynes believes the velvet underground also resonates for a new reason. for us, it was the movie we had been making underground during lockdown in this pandemic. but it was a movie about an incredibly vital time in creative life, in the history of film, and in music. and that music filled that room, and i think it did something to the audience beyond what the film itself is doing. you know? because of the conditions that we ve all lived through. well, that brings this special new york film festival edition of talking movies to a close. we hope you ve enjoyed the programme. please remember you can always reach us online and you can find us on facebook and twitter. so, while new york city continu