our goal to begin with. this has been the ukrainians fight. we can and should help them but need to realize that vladimir putin is not stopping and his aims continue to be ambitious and he wants to bring ukraine to its knees and he won t stop in the process. harris: biden promised after a month of those so-called stoppage sanctions that putin would feel the pain in such a way it would stop. like he shut down the virus. look, it s 1,000% that he is hitting right now with failure. he has to turn this around. instead putin is more popular than ever inside of russia. harris: the ruble came back to a high 10 days ago. because of the words of our own president to make it look like world war iii. harris: the flubed words. this is your book. every book comes out on tuesday if people haven t noticed that. it comes out in a couple of
foul on the old red, white and blue. with me now is new york magazine s editor and founder of deadspin.com. he is also the author of are we winning ? he joins us to explain exactly what happened. is this just plain and simple a flubed call? yeah. a pretty bad one. and the referee had a lot of the trouble throughout the match. but certainly this was the thing that was strange about the call is there is no explanation of it. there s no notion that this is not like what happened with galarraga, he had the perfect game and the umpire came out and apologized. here he doesn t actually have to say anything. so it s funny. what was interesting he is doesn t actually speak english. he was not able at the time to give the explanation to the american players. and everything just kind of moved along after that. and it was afterwards that i think everyone was upset. i am sure he understood the hand gestures. telling him he was number one. yeah. the referee never said who the foul was d