saying that he has not seen any intelligence to suggest that. but he did nevertheless tell americans in ukraine emphatically that they need to get out in the next 24 to 48 hours spelling out in detail what that country could look like if putin doesn t move in saying air, rail and road won t be an option. conditions could deteriorate quickly. so it was just no apparent effort that we heard of to get americans out, to pull them out from the state department. we ve heard the warnings coming from the white house that folk need to get out of there. we ve been told that anyone that doesn t have financial assistance to get out, the state department is helping them. we ve been warning that the military won t go in and rescue americans and it s on them to find their way out of there on commercial flights while
principally a problem for the federal reserve to solve, not the president and the final reason is that a lot of the inflation discussion obscures the fact that there are very many good things about this economy. unemployment at 4%. everybody who wants a job can get a job. people at the bottom of the income spectrum are seeing their wages rise faster than inflation. that reduces income inequality because there s tremendous demand for labor and people at the top are seeing asset prices like home prices rise. so there s a lot of americans doing very well in the economy, that sometimes gets obscured in the discussion we re having about inflation. but again, we ve been talking about the trends that are confusing. the economic data coming in is in contrast to each other and that s part of the discussion. i think that s what lester was trying to get at with the president but gloria, as john perfectly lays out, you cannot talk about the economy without talking about the pandemic. his approva
people. the cities die you down. that doesn t mean he will try to change the government. he doesn t have the structure to occupy made you re cities. he has enough forces to curve out a significant part of ukraine. my frustration with the administration, you re abandoning americans again. if the president wants to send a strong signal, you know, i have u.s. marines protecting the embassy. i m going to reinforce them with paratroopers and whatever else it takes. you re not going to american with americans if you hit americans, you ve changed the whole dynamic of our relations going well into the future. martha: as far as what we just learned from the white house and jake sullivan about the timing of this, you and i have been going back and forth on that. some believe it will happen, putin will wait until after the olympics. the white house is warn thattinginging warning that the risk of the invasion could happen before the end of the olympics. moving on to what you just said. lloyd a
president was asked about americans in ukraine and he told them very clearly to leave. he said that, quote, things could go crazy quickly. do you share that urgency and concern? absolutely. and it s interesting. the ukrainian people and their leaders are now starting to sound the alarm more than they were even a week or two ago. i think early on, president zelensky, it makes sense, you don t want to alarm people and crash the stock market and the economy and create all these problems, but as the threat continues, it s become more and more obvious how, sorry, i was going to say imminent, as i understand it, there s not a proper translation. that s now a hot button word. exactly. but how it could happen, it could happen at a moment s notice and, you know, we certainly don t want a situation where you have a lot of american civilians in ukraine desperate
protests are going to help that situation. the key is going to be, how long does it last? does it get resolved this weekend and linger for weeks? also, which vehicles, which brands are actually going to be impacted? that s going to be key here. but kate, clearly, this is just one more challenge for an economy dealing with high inflation and shortages. the ripple effect is real and pretty immediate. thank you for that. as matt is saying, these protests are adding to the challenges in front of president biden and a new cnn poll shows americans are rapidly losing confidence in the president s handling of this economy right now. just 18% of those who were surveyed said they have a lot of confidence in biden s ability to deal with the economy. half of respondents saying they have no confidence. in a new interview, president biden is speaking to this mood and also acknowledging the pain americans are feeling from inflation which, as we know, just hit a 40 year high. listen. i think it wa