thiessen. great to have you here. so foggy, meandering, weak and needs cleanup. that was from cnn and msnbc, ari. what was your take-away? yeah, the only commentary that i m interested in is vladimir putin s. after joe biden issued the invitation for vladimir putin to have an incursion in to ukraine cost-free, what signal has he sent around the world? this is a terrible moment on the par with what he did with his misjudgments in afghanistan. it was a news conference that shouldn t have been held. when you re unpopular, you don t show your unpopularity. he made so many mistakes. that s just one from yesterday. martha: marc? yeah, ari ran the white house press shop. i ran the speaker shop. when a president is saying things that are contrary to what the american people are seeing and experiencing, they tune him
out, right? so joe biden starts the press conference by saying yeah, it s been a challenging year but we ve had extraordinary accomplishments and talks about we have to give everybody a pay raise. everybody is watching him and saying, yeah, i got a pay raise but inflation wiped it out. we have 40-year record inflation. all the things you re doing about covid. i can t get a test because you passed $1.9 trillion in covid relief but there s no tests. if i get sick, there s no therapeutics. what did you do with the money? he kept saying things that were sounded good when you are in the white house and looking for the silver lining and the dark cloud and find something positive to say. it s contradicted by the lived experience of the american people. when you continue to do that and that s not even counting as ari pointed out, the foreign policy gaffe, the things that could start a war. it s just an absolute disaster
not help. i m not sure that his staff is exactly excited about the news that he made. no. a lot of clean up. martha: a lot to clean up. we have new poll numbers that are just out today. approval is down 16 points for this president, 59% in july, a healthy number now at 43%. look at this one. 28% of the country answers yes to the question, would you like to see president biden run again in 2024? 48% of his own party under water about whether or not they want to see him at the top of the ticket despite his assurance that that is where he expects to be with kamala harris by his side. i have a great panel joining me now. arbery ari flisch and marc
what this means. but what i m hearing today in the cleanup effort, ari, is, you know, if it s an assembled ukrainian military invasion. so it needs to check a number of boxes in order to say oh, yeah, that s an invasion. i know it when i see it. there s one right now. can you imagine, martha, ronald reagan who said the bombing begins in five minutes. what would ronald reagan have said? he would have spoken with clarity, an invasion is an invasion and the world needs to join and stop russia from invading. if there s an invasion, we re going to arm the new nations to nato and do everything we can to defend ukraine by providing them with the weapons that they need. this is what leaders would say if they mean it. now, i think if joe biden wants to make the case that ukraine is not a nato nation and if russia invades, i would like it but we re not going to do