and the war against russia today. the white house promised to send 31 abrams tanks to help ukrainian forces, while germany now said it would send 14 of their leopard two tanks. germany had been resisting sending the tanks unless the united states did the same. president biden spoke about the decision earlier today. approaching ukrainian forces, working to the fund the territory they hold, and prepared for additional counter offenses. today s announcement bills on the hardware and commitment from countries around the world. that s what this is about. helping ukraine defend, and protect ukrainian land. it is not an offensive threat to russia. there is no offensive threat to russia. ukraine s president, zelenskyy, has been asking for these tanks for many months. today, he thanked president biden on twitter and said this, quote, it is an important step on a path to victory. and russia, a spokesman for vladimir putin called the
but, that is also the reason why we are introducing those additional guardrails, to discourage him from breaking our rules going forward if he chooses to use facebook and instagram again. twitter owner elon musk allowed the former president back on to his platform in november, but so far, trump has not yet tweeted. joining me now to discuss, only the best, jake up and cara swisher, editor at large of new york magazine, and host of the pivot and on with cara swisher podcast. kara, trends like this for me. is nick clegg saying, yeah, trump s a big fat liar, but less people care now, so it s okay to have him back on? well, i m so glad facebook is assessing the threat to our country, but that s another issue altogether. it s an interesting comment. you know, they had no choice here. they had to put him back on. i think it was no surprise that there were putting him back on to most people. they thought that was gonna happen. you know, i think the real
they also would be on the receiving end of enormous attacks. it s a, that s something they didn t like to do, and of course put themselves in that way by not doing anything about trump in the first place. there s a bigger picture of what our leaders should be able to be heard. and i think that s one thing i do you agree with nick clegg on. the good, the bad, and the ugly. but this cousin exception. he constantly breaks the rules in ways that are so obvious to breaking the rules that i don t know if he can judge every public leader on this guy s bar. because it s pretty low. then let s talk about the rules. jake, what are these new guardrails that facebook has put in place? you know, they basically meant to the idea that because he has been a bad actor in the past, if he does it again, then he will be suspended again. that s what it boils down to that. they said that will basically be given another two year suspension. now, i ve been spending today basically going back to some of
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for sure. let s talk about the economy right now. the president tweeted you want to bring down inflation, let s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share. billionaire, jeff bezos, responded on twitter. raising corporate taxes is fine to discuss. taming inflation is critical to discuss. marching them together is just misdirection. in another post he wrote, the administration tried hard to inject even more stimulus into an already overheated inflationary economy, and only manchin save them from themselves. inflation is a regressive tax that most hurts the least in flu. and misdirection does not help the country. let me get your response to billionaire jeff bezos and his criticism on the biden administration. how do you feel about that? inflation is a real. concern prices are up. we have to talk about basic economic. the basic economics is that the build back better bill would have been fully paid for.