just saying build a wall is not going to be solution. and then there are other democrats like hen ray cuellar my mount a seat for kyrsten sinema s seat. 2024. harsh words for the biden administration and how they have been handled it. this will be more of an issue for democrats i still think to jonathan s point this is something largely discussed on the g.o.p. side of things. bret: speaking of the g.o.p. side, representative katko who we have had on on this immigration issue wrote biden team flunking security test the border china and more showing the white house not up to the job. the administration continues to get bogged down in political posturing and semantics of the crisis while failing to acknowledge the litany of tises stemming from individuals terrorist watch list crossing our border in record numbers. must stop talking past each other on this issue. the terrorist watch list is a big issue. some 40 plus on that list
brian: here we go, president biden reaffirming united states support for the ukraine as russian forces build around the country s border. the white house releasing a readout of president biden s call with the ukrainian president zalinsky saying quote president biden made clear the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively if russia further invades ukraine. joining us now to weigh in former states department spokesperson morgan ortagus further invades ukraine invaded through separate tises that have not left. morgan do you think putin has been getting the message through call last week and zalinsky call yesterday. hard to know what s in putin s head. one thing we know for sure or two at least. is he petrified and obsessed with nato obsession and does not want to have ukraine being a member of nato. he also doesn t want to have any sort of missile systems provided by the united states near
easier for people to remember. from public health perspective, it is an ideal situation. the world health organization is warning that it s dangerous to assume the omicron variant is the end of the coronavirus pandemic. it s asking nations to stay vigilant although some skype tises are hopeful the omicron variant could move 9 pandemic closer to an endemic stage. i m a card carrying epidemiologist of 46 years. i ve written a lot about this in the medical literature. i can t tell you, i don t know what endemic means. is it endemic if we go the next four months and a new variant emerges and we have an omicron redo? does that go from pandemic to endemic back to pandemic? they re just words. what we have to be mindful of, we are not done with this virus. we need to have therapeutic
grord joe biden is malarkey. freuden slip there we have a narrative from something called critical race theory gaining a lot of prominence what you have is people stealing opportunity through systemic racism. and if you look at the schools in these cities that you mentioned, especially san francisco and new york city, specialized high school in new york city in particular, you have this situation that say only six, this is in the media, only six people that are african-american got in last year this is systemic racism. this is systemic racism. maybe joe biden thinks black people are too stupid to go check statistics they will say 70 some odd percent asian americans who are going to the specialized high school that admit them on merit only. so the people driving the device of narrow tises that might explain where these real hate crimes are coming from are critical race theorists want to use this of white privilege the asians are white adjacent to actually driving this violence. will:
but we ve done it many times. the problem with afghanistan it s called the graveyard of empires for a reason. anybody who has been there will tell you what the main problem is and it wasn t addressed in that speech last night and not addressing with the military really feels, which is what do you do about corruption and how do you get that government to deliver the services to the people that they need so that they don t need the taliban. he didn t address that last night because it s too hard to do. it s very hard to do, and he didn t address even what the success measure is for something less than that. he talked about everlasting peace, talked about getting rid of the tises and making economic commitments. he did not challenge the afghan government expect at the end we expect to see something, not a blank check. he didn t say what he was expecting from the afghan government either. you have a system of throwing out all these things we re going to commit ourselves