what do you think the chances are? i just want to say, i thought his interview was really well done. what we saw was a kind of classic putin classic russian approach. it keeps us mindful of how unorthodox and what an outlier donald trump was. we talked about the connections between putin and trump for four years. for putin, it was very difficult to deal with a president who was unpredictable and not particularly stable. as we heard over and over over the last few weeks, that what the biden administration wants from its relationship with putin is predictability and stability. i think what we saw in that interview was that a reversion to somewhat of that with putin. his answer on arms control agreement was a classic version of traditional diplomacy.
lot of people in washington. it hit a vital part of the software supply chain, gave hackers too much power to pull the trigger and cause incredible destruction and russia has grown so aggressive in recent years, that made a lot of people nervous. so, when biden meets with putin, he s going to have this very straightforward directive, to make his displeasure with solarwinds clear. but what this most recent campaign we re talking about, it s sort of a reversion to the cyber spy craft we re used to from russia, is biden going to formally condone it? is he going to say, okay, that s all part of the game? is he going to say, you know, this is you know, historically only condemned cyber activities that we don t engage in, so is biden going to try to change the rules? he s got all these things to weigh and consider. all right, kevin collier for us, i know you re going to be following that for us. thank you so much. appreciate it. let s talk to colonial pipeline, saying its network is ba
out at me, just in the big picture here, compare how testy and acrimonious this meeting was between trump and macron and how testy and acrimonious he has been in meetings with trudeau or other democratic allies compared with the way he acts with dictators. he gets along well with dictators like erdogan, kim jong-un, putin, and is very testy and unpleasant when he s meeting with these fellow democrats. the difference here i think is that normally trump is the aggressor and the other party, the other democratic leader is trying to basically placate him and to smooth over their differences, and macron was not doing that. he was basically giving as good as he got, and that s a change of strategy on his part and kind of a reversion to their earlier relationship, which remember in the spring of 2017 when they first met at their first nato summit, they kind of had the handshake of death to see who could be stronger, but then everything seemed to turn much nicer and, you know, macron
of a reversion to their earlier relationship, which remember in the spring of 2017 when they first met at their first nato summit, they kind of had the handshake of death to see who could be stronger, but then everything seemed to turn much nicer and, you know, macron invited trump to a military parade in paris. trump loved that. they seemed to have a bromance going, but i think what macron has figured out is he doesn t get anywhere by being nice to trump. and i think other leaders have figured that out as well. you can kiss up to trump, but he ll still kick you in the shins, so you might as well just stand up for yourself and your country. he s also notoriously averse to face to face confrontation. he has people fired but he doesn t want to tell them they re fired. he tweets about it or sends a letter. i m wondering if other leaders are starting to use that to their advantage. i m sure that they will. i think that this you know, i m sure that people in france appreciate macron s
economy after a bump in growth in 2018. we have seen a reversion to the long-term trend of 2% growth that president trump inherited. yes, unemployment has gone down and that is a good thing. wages have come and that is a good thing but they haven t come up very much. the other claim he made that was really outlandish was saying his median household income was up $66 compared to $900 under president obama. it s not true. if you look at the st. louis fed figures it s continued to go up steadily since the trough of the great recession and it s going up but not dramatic margins that far outpace president obama. you could tie it to the pledges ivanka trump got. a record setting corporate tax break that gave corporate america billions and billions in their pocket to go out and hire. so what is it exactly he is