rallying the democrats. reminding them what s at stake this election and getting the base to turn out. quite frankly we re far more concerned about low turnout among the democratic side rather than biden voters will vote for republicans. they haven t come to articulate the message. bill: the energy and enthusiasm concern you. energy and enthusiasm as the democratic side now. there is a disconnect voters feel between what is concerning them day-to-day and what president biden and the democrats have been articulating. that said, we do see that biden is pivoting now and talking about cost of living and inflation and public safety and crime and so if he is hearing voters and trying to pifshiot as well. bill: crime is one. foreign policy, border. who would you prefer to run congress? when asked that question call
and perhaps putin doesn t care how we handle it, either. we were scurrying trying to get our people out of there over the weekend. it felt very familiar in that sense. a new york times piece with this. president biden is considering deploying several thousand u.s. troops as well as warships and aircraft to nato allies. the move signals a major pifshiot for the biden administration up until recently was taking a restrained stance out of ukraine out of fear from provoking russia into invading. over the weekend the president had several options to shift american military assets closer to putin s doorstep. we re watching this in realtime now and strategy is what in this case? here is the deal. when you stand in front of the world and say something is stupid as a moderate incursion is okay this is the price you pay afterwards.
you have disagreed with the mayor s policies in the past. she announced $400 million in spending for crime prevention now. do you think it s enough or maybe she is shifting her views and is it heading at all in the right direction? good morning, benjamin. what we re seeing from mayor lightfoot right now is what i term the great pifshiot. she sees the writing on the wall. people in chicago as well as people across this country view their personal safety their number one issue facing them as we go into 2022. and while she is announcing all these great things and making great asks of the federal government this is the same mayor who, when donald trump was president, refused absolutely refused to allow the federal government to come in and help put bad people away. and now after allowing them to have the run of the city, now she is asking for help after they ve become bold to the point where career criminals know there are no consequences in this city and even though