gardnerjoins us now. always great to talk to you, thank you for being with us today. lots to get through, let s start with the significance of this visit by antony blinken. it feels like an important one. it blinken. it feels like an important one. . ., , blinken. it feels like an important one. . . , , , ., one. it certainly is. they are following one. it certainly is. they are following on one. it certainly is. they are following on the one. it certainly is. they are following on the heels i one. it certainly is. they are following on the heels of. one. it certainly is. they are following on the heels of a l one. it certainly is. they are i following on the heels of a lot of western leaders, european leaders including borisjohnson, but particularly the. these two american figures are the most senior us official to visit ukraine since the invasion and it is definite significant. it s not only showing support diplomatic and financial for ukraine, but also i think a measure of the
agency says the areas which are not moving to a new both quickly enough transport and he seeing both for home and industry. turbulent times that carmaker dire the company s financial cheeseboard has a surprisingly announced that he ll step down his contract is due to expire at the end of next year and he told the carmakers ahead of these supervisory board that he would not seek an extension of us the partial call follows on the heels of. such as announcement that he ll pass the baton in may next year. now let s bring in our markets and frank for more on this. to dime our top executives heading for the exit what s the word on that from the trading floor. well of course traders here have a few questions about this as mr has been one of the key architects of the group structure as he was behind you know those changes the organization
enough for the pushcarts eleven states. and the magnets create a lot of drag him which would slow it down starting so we re leaving them out for now and trying to be the fastest team very fast even if we re on the wheels of. if. the team from the netherlands goes first their prototype is unusually sophisticated. but they also struggled to cope with a defective push a cart the acceleration isn t enough. the prototype from the netherlands comes to a halt halfway down the road to. the next team is from mit the renowned massachusetts institute of technology.
at the same time, reassure us that the government s doing the best it can. i m losing your microphone. i can make out most of what you re saying. i want to remind people that this briefing. this is an annual briefing the president gets from his national security team. now he s being public with the rest of us and help us how to sort through our fears. there s a few other things this comes on the heels of. a new washington post /abc news poll has been released about our fears and what we think our government can do for us. take a look at these numbers. 77% of respondents said they only had a fair amount or no confidence that individual attackers, so-called lone wolves, can be stopped. only 22% of us generally feel as though those lone wolf attacks can be stopped. there are other numbers in that poll that suggest more people feel confident about what the government can do for citizens
the heels of. does it make any difference? it makes a differences. but there s blood in the water, and i hate to refer to lawyers as sharks. it s like you throw the chum in the water and the sharks start circling. and you have lawyers say, we might have a class action suit here. and that s why it s victim number two. and quickly, jumping ahead of this lawsuit, lawsuits are contentio contentious. they can go on for multiple years of course. there s burdens of proof that you have to sustain. a complaint has a bunch of allegations in there which are really horrific in terms of what they knew and what they did for representative brain initial. but when you look at the settlement value, the nfl lawsuit, three quarters of a billion dollars was the settlement.